Riot games ranked team matchmaking

Veexyk·Oct 4, 2016·10 votes·1,229 views

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How can we be placed as those ranks vs these ranks? btw gp is rank 31 chall 600 lp.

17 Comments

TormentulaOct 4, 20167 votes

Ranked teams and solo/dynamic q have seperate MMRs. Your entire team shares a rank therefore the rank of your team is what determines your MMR.

So basically, if you're in a bronze ranked 5 team, and the enemy team is full of challengers that got bronze in their ranked placements because they just mess around or don't try anything competitively, you can go against them anytime.

As much as I understand the system it does feel kinda stupid having a bronze team with bronze friends you wouldn't take in soloq and they have to deal with diamonds just because the diamonds are playing with silvers or bronze players in a bronze tier ranked 5s team.

SlythionOct 4, 20163 votes

a silver 3 + 4 in a game against a challenger and a couple diamonds...gg riot

Spaceman5pffOct 4, 20162 votes

It is Ranked 5's, this is totally normal and correct. Different ladder than SoloQ, based on how well you play as a unit. If the challenger and diamond dudes just fuck around in 5's drunk, good chance they are bronze / silver in 5's. Various other factors play in, but this is how 5's have ALWAYS worked, and this post is just an upvote farm, move along.

SlythionOct 5, 20161 votes

oh shit, you're completely right. I didn't even notice it was a 5v5, now everything seems normal.

AMYS GRAVEOct 4, 20162 votes

Yeah, matchmaking has been awful all season. In one of my games i had a bronze 1 player on my team, with a plat 1 player on the other team. He got destroyed, raged, and afked.

Spaceman5pffOct 4, 20161 votes

This is ranked 5's, Not SoloQ. this is totally normal and correct. Different ladder than SoloQ, different MMR.

This has no connection to soloQ. This is how ranked 5's have always worked.

AMYS GRAVEOct 4, 20161 votes

ahh, misread the post. Still though...

Spaceman5pffOct 4, 20161 votes

Still nothing.

Either the Challenger guys team sucks, or the other team is great. Either way, matchmaking is working correctly and fairly.

AMYS GRAVEOct 5, 20161 votes

Either the Challenger guys team sucks, or the other team is great.

That doesn't mean that the game is going to be worth the time to play, its going to feel like a stomp one way or the other. Just because each team has a 50% chance to win doesn't mean the system is working correctly or fairly.

Spaceman5pffOct 5, 20161 votes

Look closely at the game detail.

It wasn't a stomp at all. It was pretty close.

AMYS GRAVEOct 5, 20161 votes

The gangplank player had 40% more gold than anyone else in the game. That's nowhere near close. +60 cs and 3 kills over anyone. Maybe you mean something different when you say pretty close?

Spaceman5pffOct 6, 20161 votes

The game, overall, was pretty close as far as I can tell from that screen. Sure Gangplank was rolling in gold, but that is the nature of GP. I am honestly suprised it wasn't a BIGGER gold lead.

Kennen was only 1000 damage behind GP, given the gold discrepancy that is impressive. It means he was doing WORK in teamfights. Shaco outperformed Olaf, this isn't hard to figure out. Tristana only dying two times ALL GAME is impressive, given she was against a Diamond Ranked hook lane.

If you pay attention to all of the numbers, the lower ranked team appears to have damn near nullified the advantages the other team took in lane phase by out-teamfighting them and playing their comp really well. Not getting curbstomped by a team with THAT MUCH engage, poke, and burst is super impressive and I commend them for it.