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please for the love of god, tether norm and ranked mmr.

Prime159·7/17/2019, 1:21:12 AM·2 votes·1,007 views

I just don't understand why this is an issue. They do it in several other mobas and most games with ranked systems. My last two games in a row read like this... my team: 2 silver 2's, 2 bronze 1's, 1 plat vs 2 plats and 3 high golds. the game before that was even worse. 4 silver 2's and a silver 3 vs 3 plats, 1 low gold, and a silver. This is just one example, but it's constant. Almost every norm game nowadays is a complete stomp one way or another because the matchmaking is so atrocious. It is very easy to make a one league max difference when queing with someone, meaning a silver 2 cannot join norms with a diamond 1. Again, this is something many games have in place, yet possibly the most known and played moba does not. I hear people say they want to play with friends, and that's fine, but the vast majority of us have friend lists that are quite large enough to play customs with our friends who are maybe 2-3 leagues above us. PLS FIX THIS RIOT. Tether ranked and norm mmr so your community can have more balanced games in general.

9 Comments

Teh Song7/17/2019, 3:42:16 AM2 votes

Wouldn't tethering make it look like the problem is worse?

Somebody does their placements, and gets iron. Then they only play norms, and go on an mmr raising winstreak. When they go back to ranked, they are now an iron playing with gold's, because that's where there mmr is. Or they place high, have a norms loss streak, and are the gold in an iron match.

All that aside it's better to not have ranked and unranked mmr tethered because people play differently. People go into norms and don't take it seriously, trying dumb things and the like. If mmr was tethered, norms antics would tank people's ranked mmr, causing bad matches. In fact I dare say all the mobas that do have ranked an unranked share an mmr need to stop doing that.

preternatural7/17/2019, 1:31:12 AM1 votes

will never happen because of league of friends.

Darkdemon6537/17/2019, 1:36:41 AM1 votes

That works for only people who play both ranked and normal.

Cind3rkick7/17/2019, 1:28:46 AM1 votes

Ranked games end up more of a one sided game.

Some of the closest and most intense matches ive had were in normals.

macspam7/17/2019, 5:16:04 AM1 votes

There needs to be way to play with a lower MMR when you play a new champ though.

Zero Shingetsu7/17/2019, 5:58:04 AM1 votes

Conspiracy theory: The reason they don't tether is to combat the gripes cropping up that queue times are getting longer (which means less active players). They're masking the exodus of their playerbase by stretching queues across tiers so queue times are faster.

Prime1597/17/2019, 1:35:12 PM1 votes

i cannot emphasis enough that these are games that should never happen. if there were 5 golds vs 5 high silvers, i wouldn't be commenting on this in the first place. it's these games with multiple plats/diamonds vs all silvers that is the issue and it happens quite a bit more than most people realize if they check their match history. it's like 1 of every 2/3 games that one team is extremely lopsided.