Why am i getting unranked/bronze players in my gold promos?

Rezki·11/19/2019, 2:19:12 AM·24 votes·15,619 views

Literally got 2 unranked players within 3 games. I don't understand how this is okay? How the hell am i supposed to get to gold if I'm literally getting garbage as teammates? I know this is just kind of a rant, but this definitely isn't okay. I had two games where this happened, but thankfully, my duo managed to dodge the last one. As you can see in the picture, the Kai'sa isn't even ranked, like what? (I'm sorry if this is the wrong board, first time doing this, and I just thought i had to post about this)

91 Comments

Cycera11/19/2019, 2:22:08 AM22 votes

This is why I stopped playing ranked! I am part of those unranked/bronze players that get paired up with a bunch of gold and plat people and I have no idea why. It sucks. The only response I could muster to the flame was "bro, I have no idea why I'm here, I'm Bronze II and Riot has no business putting me here"

I'm sorry for both sides, really. It's not a fair situation at all.

SgtAwesomeness11/19/2019, 4:07:34 AM18 votes

its to make sure you lose

Devilreaper XIII11/19/2019, 10:52:54 AM12 votes

riot wants everyone to be around 50% winrate is why.... [slayer-pantheon-rainbows]

CominTowardsYa11/19/2019, 2:11:30 PM9 votes

Thank the secret MMR system for that.

It goes like this: Rank doesn't mean anything. MMR is your real rank. Your stated Rank is what shows up on your Profile as "Rank" and you need to get to the next Rank to get credit for the Rank, but it doesn't mean anything because hidden MMR is really what matters, and if you are better than your rank, you will have high MMR and go against leet people in Challenger, and carry bronzies just to make sure you can carry games by yourself against a crack team of great players.

Great system huh.

Saezio11/19/2019, 5:48:05 AM7 votes

Unranked=/= Bronze.

New players start in high silver low gold(MMR wise, rank does not matter). It's always been like that. Every person in the history of league has climbed with this exact system in place.

Żügżwäng11/19/2019, 2:06:31 PM5 votes

Don't know why they bother with their league system at all. If you're in silver you should face silvers. Not some internal MMR calculation

People will say you'll have a higher LP gain. Ok why not have that anyway and face people as close to your immediate placement as possible.