Matchmaking matching first time ranked players with silver 3 players

RainbowGirl·Apr 14, 2016·1 votes·407 views

Hey, just got done playing a ranked game with my friend, all excited to fight for my promos, and we ended up getting a Ryze support who we thought at first was trolling due to his standing around, lack of buying, and all in all detrimental play style. After the game we actually felt the need to check into his history and see what was going on, we ended up finding out he was literally playing his first ranked game in league of legends and got thrown into the wolves. I'm 99% sure a first time player shouldn't be at the high silver low gold level (other players in the game were gold 5's and a gold 4) this is kind of a big bug that can ruin not only a players first time in ranked, but their teams experience as well. [slayer-jinx-unamused]

3 Comments

CoolMike127Apr 14, 20161 votes

Was that his Provisional game as his first ranked game? Cause if it was, he doesn't have any previous ranked history for the system to use as a comparison and it will place him in an overall mmr of his Normal Games. His Normal Game mmr must have been in Silver mmr range for you to play with him, or the skill level in that game was lower and it was low enough for him to be in.

Hope you were all weren't too cruel and mean to a newbie, all of us were like that once, and it ain't cool to raging at someone just starting (it's not cool anyway for anyone to be raging and toxic in chat).

Btw: Bronze to Gold is just your majority of Average players. Silver 3 is like your borderline Average player, so don't be hard on people that look to be struggling. Good luck climbing!

RainbowGirlApr 15, 20161 votes

yeah, it was his first provisional, but he didn't play like he was at a silver mmr in normals so I'm entirely too confused as to why he ended up there. I didn't flame him, but my friend tore into him lol, but this was after trying to talk to him for 30 minutes while he stood still at turret lol.

CoolMike127Apr 15, 20161 votes

If he was just doing nothing and sitting there, it could have been connection problems or lag that prevented him to play properly, and as a solid reaction would be to hug tower until it is resolved (that's what I do when I'm laning and get a random lag spike).

I doubt he would just stand at tower all the time, even for a new lvl 30 beginner, so I think it might have been connection issues/lag (which would explain lack of movement, buying items, or communicating), though I wasn't there, so I can't say.