Ranked matchmaking question

ConseQutive·Feb 4, 2015·1 votes·463 views

Ok so in a nutshell I was silver 2 last season. After placements I got placed in bronze 3 (which I don't have a problem with since I am awful at this game and strive to make silver again this season). I skip bronze 2 and make it to bronze 1 and now I have been in 4 separate placement series for silver 5, failing them all. My question is: why am I being placed against high silver and low golds in my bronze 1 placement matches? Wouldn't it only make sense to place me against bronze 1's with a range from bronze 2 through silver 5? Isn't that the point of ranked, to play against your "rank"? I only know people are these ranks based off of borders in loading screen and me asking what they are (assuming they are honest). Seems like an odd matchmaking system to me.

3 Comments

hh the thinkerFeb 4, 20151 votes

actually, rank is only one part. the bigger part is MMR. your MMR is high so that's why you skipped a division. either you will just keep winning which will keep your mmr high or you will start to lose and it will even out with your rank.

ConseQutiveFeb 4, 20151 votes

Oh, ok. So calling the queue "Ranked Matchmaking" is a misnomer because it is actually MMR matchmaking? How do I find out what my MMR?

hh the thinkerFeb 4, 20151 votes

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Oh, ok. So calling the queue "Ranked Matchmaking" is a misnomer because it is actually MMR matchmaking? How do I find out what my MMR?

you can check op.gg or lolnexus. lolnexus only works in game by the way. other thing you can do is guess just by seeing who you are fighting. your mmr is about high silver to low gold since that's what you are fighting about.