Oh look, I'm about to reach my promos

Burnt Light·10/12/2016, 1:17:04 PM·50 votes·3,615 views

And series of losing games just cause I hit over 50% win-rate.

Just love how that is the "logic" of making matches fair. By putting team mates with lower than 20% win-rate in your team with a history of toxicity and intentional feeding or even AFK against premade smurfs in order to ensure that I stay around 50%

Seriously, fuck this match-making system.

70 Comments

Vistha Kai10/12/2016, 1:48:22 PM26 votes

First world problems.

For me to get over 50% winrate, I'd need to win 25 games in a row.

And I'm playing with people with mental capabilities so low, I'm sure they are only wearing velcro shoes, because laces are too technologically advanced to operate them without the assistance of an adult.

dominusx10/12/2016, 1:32:16 PM10 votes

nah it's only like that in promos once you hit promos riot most of the time litterally intentionally matches you with Tilted players and or Smurfs and usually tilters are on your team and smurfs on the enemy not that you can't win the game but a tilted player is a handicap and it shouldt match you with ppl who have lower win rate than you regadless in ranked. sure as fuck aint gonna have fun carrying a 45% win rate player with 600games in diamond nor will the enemy have fun playing vs a 70% win rate smurf on plat to fuck them over because they are outclassed.

Joseph Gladstone10/12/2016, 2:10:46 PM5 votes

upvote the shit out of this because its so fucking true

Red Wreckage10/13/2016, 8:16:20 AM5 votes

Every time I'm on a +4 winning streak, the match-making must always step in and deliver righteous justice and put me back to where I belong, ~50% win rate :) Like throwing in an unranked new player who is just starting out their first ever placements, or a hyper carry with a KDA like 7/11/6 in my teams. And right now, this sudden surge of kennen/syndra/jayce "mains" with their first ranked game as said champions

Slythion10/12/2016, 1:19:50 PM3 votes

it seems that Burnt Light is a bit Burnt Out

Relinquisher0710/12/2016, 3:09:43 PM3 votes

Honestly, no. Every game is winnable, there is 1/10 that you absolutely will not win even if you pour your heart into that game. I understand the frustration because if you aren't better than where you are currently, it seems like the system is out to get you. Unfortunately everyone gets to points where they reach a plateau and it isn't out of the norm for people to be delusional on how good they are at the game. I haven't had a bot lane win their lane in some 150 games, but i don't complain, because even with that it doesn't matter, i can still win the game because I'm simply better than where i am. I feel like anyone gold and below should just stop complaining about the game and learn the game. This game isn't about kills, or assists, how much farm you get, its about objectives, and you can go 20-0 in lane and just get roflstomped cause you didn't share your power with your team. The proof that you are losing games because of your own lack of knowledge is the fact that smurfs can pick up an account and hold a 70-80% win rate, where you cant even do that on your own. Blame the system all you want, its your own faults that lose you games, not the system. I had a silver try to tell me that dynamic queue was the problem with them losing games, that they always got matched against trios, but i destroyed them on nunu by just taking everything from them, our team was 5 solos. That isn't a matchmaking problem, that's just all 5 of them having less map awareness and knowledge than i have. There is no problem with matchmaking, yes it does punish you for winning 5 games in a row by giving you the worst of teammates for one or two games, but you are gaining 28 LP and losing 10 at that point, you can afford to lose one.

TLDR; IF you are good enough, you will win 80-90% of games up until Diamond, then you actually face really solid players, until then, don't cry about the game, just realize you are bad and start playing to improve instead of playing to get kills. This game is all about attitude, you have a good attitude you will likely win, you don't you will definitely lose.

warpenguin55510/12/2016, 3:08:55 PM2 votes

Yeah. I've failed my promos 3 times. Just yesterday I had 1 game where the thresh died twice and afks in the 1st 4 minutes and the next game we were on the nexus. Inhibitor respawned. We still lost.

Rito Ponytail10/12/2016, 1:27:46 PM2 votes

It isn't as bad as you say it is, but I have noticed that if i'm on a history of a losing streak i'll also be matched with people that have been losing a ton of games on that given day.

Errastas10/12/2016, 3:39:58 PM2 votes

It's simple, you're playing against the lower end of gold while trying to get into gold. It's gonna be a shitstorm.

CarameI Frappe10/12/2016, 5:26:30 PM2 votes

... Yea, that's exactly how it was for me in my Plat promos. Won non stop games until hitting promos, then all of a sudden I am placed with feeding / uncooperative teammates that play like they're a 1 man army kind of deal when they're only helping the enemy team succeed.

Had to get 2 of my friends just so I knew my lanes would be secured ... jesus christ.

LegendmakerGX10/12/2016, 5:41:07 PM2 votes

Lets not forget when you get place in a match it's with people who are about to get demoted or a person who is on a losing streak. Usually happens when you pass promo, Logic just put every one who is in the same tier together without caring about anything else.

Dukues10/12/2016, 2:24:25 PM2 votes

4 down votes on the most honest post in this thread. Damn the salt is real today haha.

Fine op you want me to lie to you then I will.

Omg your so right... like omg we should all be able to just play w/e champs we want in w/e role we want and just mess around and hard carry because we all so good at this game and obviously when we lose its because of our shitter teammates that the system purposely matches us with because its clearly out to get us. Ug... iffff onlyyy the system placed me in challenger where I belonged... why...... rito why....... /s/s/s/s/s/s/s

You guys are right... that answer makes way more sense wtf was I thinking. Clearly if you can't rank up the system is out to get you.