League of Legends 14.8 gets new Rank seeding changes, which will “place players more correctly in Ranked”

League of Legends just got a mid-patch to its Rank seeding, which is expected to place players in the competitive ladder more correctly. Riot Phroxzon recently pointed out some of the details about these changes, including pros and cons that players should expect once the update is live and they boot up for rank.

Talking about the positives of the changes, Riot Phroxzon pointed out:

Riot Phroxzon further stated that more is to be done in the new system and that players who were facing seeding bugs back in February will now be placed more appropriately. The bug was seeding players at Gold 1, but they will now face players with actual skill levels.

However, Phroxzon also pointed out that all is not positive with the new seeding system:

Irrespective of the negative LP gains, Riot Games feels that the tradeoffs for the new League of Legends seeding system are worth it. The studio feels that having newer players matchup with those of their proper skill level is much more important than LP loss and gains.

This is likely to create more competitive fairness, and the League of Legends developer will be updating the system further in future patches.