What is Compensation Mode?

Some of you may have noticed that it says "Compensation Mode is activated" up near the upper left hand side of the screen. What does this mean? It means that the servers are especially laggy right now, and although it's playable, it's not optimal.

Therefore, Riot is giving out loss forgivens for any losses that you might have, but also halving the amount of ELO you gain from ranked to compensate for inflation.

So if you can deal with the lag and are already past your placement matches, feel free to play a couple games of ranked worry free :)