Diamond Ranked Integrity

HoneyDewMelon·9/4/2016, 1:24:39 AM·1 votes·638 views

Hey all I'm HoneyDewMelon, first off I am not making another qq thread or some rant about Dynamic Queue because the standard circle jerk is annoying. What I am here to address another issue in Diamond.

Recently I climbed to Diamond 5 (YAY!) and right after I got the news that in Diamond there would be solo/duo queue only, now... at the time I thought this was great because Diamonds can't queue as 3-4 man premades, only duo right? Well I was terribly wrong.

I queued up for a game and when I got into champ select I could tell that there was, at least, a 3 man premade (from tags). I was surprised because that would mean I'm not playing with Diamonds. Anyways I brushed it off thinking they were plat 1-2 at the least, then game launched... long story short and the qq aside, we lost in 20 mins and I had no control over the surrender vote. Same old same old. When I check my op.gg I find out that I had plat 4-3s and maybe a plat 1 on my team...

This is my argument: If I can't queue with you, and I can't quad/trio in my own elo, do not put me with a quad queue in plat 3. I don't care how good their "Shared" mmr is. I shouldn't be able to play wtih a quad or plat 3-4s for any reason, I can't even queue up with them. That is the exact opposite of what riot portrayed ranked would entail in Diamond/Masters

Challenger tier will shift to pure solo, and Diamond and Master tiers to solo/duo. We’re making this change first at Diamond / Master / Challenger because even minor levels of premade coordination have disproportionate effects on match quality at the highest tiers of ranked, given the limitations of the player pool and the sometimes massive skill disparities between single divisions.

All I want is integrity, maybe I'm just the one unlucky guy but I'm absolutely sure that this will happen more and more as riot tries to even the disparity between solo/duo and quad/5's by taking someone from a higher elo and placing them against that team.

TL;DR I am Diamond 5 with decent mmr, and got placed with plat 4-2~ 4 mans when I can't queue up with someone in plat 4-3 and I surely can't trio/quad queue.

On a side note the enemy team of plats had an 83%-73% winrate overall this season, my team had a 20% difference in winrate. Granted I only lost 13 lp, but I thought I escaped the 4 man nightmare; it followed me to Diamond.

Hello Darkness my old friend...

2 Comments

OneMustFall9/4/2016, 1:28:19 AM1 votes

Then get your MMR higher. If it's that low where you're queueing with Plats, then you're barely in Diamond. And if you deserve to be in Diamond you should be beating the Plat teams you go against.

HoneyDewMelon9/4/2016, 1:33:25 AM1 votes

I just made Diamond, I guess the TL;DR isn't very useful on the boards since that's all people read anyways. The short version is that I have normal mmr and the enemy team was full of smurfs with diamond mmr, my team barely compared; this is the first time I've played mid plat players in Diamond.