TFT Placements

What the five provisional games are for

A Set rollover resets accounts to somewhere between Iron II and Silver IV, depending on where they finished, and hands out five provisional games. They are deliberately generous: a bottom-four finish costs no LP at all during the run, while a top-four finish pays more than it would in an ordinary game. The five exist to place you near your real level rather than to punish a slow start — which means the entire value of the run sits in how many top fours you convert before the fifth game closes it.

Why they are the hardest five games of the Set

Provisional lobbies are matched on the hidden MMR you carried out of the previous Set, so they are pitched at the rank you finished on, not the reset rank the client is showing you. They also land in the opening days of a new Set, when the comps are unsolved and the patches are still moving. Full-strength lobbies against an unread meta is the combination that turns a routine ladder start into a seed several tiers below where the account belongs.

How the order runs

Pick the rank you are placing from and a Challenger tactician plays the five games out. You keep the LP the run banks and the rank it lands on, and because there are no promotion series in TFT, whatever the provisionals earn applies immediately. Add streaming if you want to watch the games as they happen.