I gotta know Riot, why are their plat players in my silver ranked games

Malix Farwin·Dec 21, 2017·2 votes·491 views

Please answer that for me. You can call me trash, you can say it's my own fault i am losing games but i have to know why i am getting plat players.

10 Comments

MartyrofsandDec 21, 20171 votes

Probably the same reason there are master players in my plat games. Welcome to preseason where you get randomly stuck with damn near anyone who plays the game and rito laughs at all the chaos caused by it, because nothing matters right now. Once preseason fully ends it should return to normal.

HalcyonDwellerDec 21, 20171 votes

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and rito laughs at all the chaos caused by it

Wat? That is not how it works.

MartyrofsandDec 21, 20171 votes

Eh it's the explanation that makes the most sense, and it's what I would do in their shoes. Just screw with people during preseason and get a kick out of it:D

HalcyonDwellerDec 21, 20171 votes

This:

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Eh it's the explanation that makes the most sense

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and it's what I would do in their shoes. Just screw with people during preseason and get a kick out of it:D

Are not equal.

Just because it is what you would do does not make it what a functioning professional business would do. You clearly have no idea what such professionals would or would not do, else you would have assumed something more rational and accurate.

No. It is not the explanation that makes the most sense. The explanation that makes the most sense is that Riot happened to upend balance for preseason because that is a side effect of making major changes to the underlying systems of how the game works. They are obviously trying to balance the game, as shown by their willingness to nerf some things that were extremely unbalanced with preseason (for example sona).

It makes no sense for a professional business to screw over their customers "just because anarchy is funny and fuck 'em anyway." Not only would it be bad for business, but it would be damaging to their reputation as a company to do something like that.

And on top of being a professional company, they are players themselves. Many of them play this game every day, often taking breaks in the middle of work to playtest things or have scrimmages. It stands to reason that players what the game to feel fun and balanced to play, and since most of them play this game, it also stands to reason that they have no motivation to screw over the balance "just because anarchy is funny."

Stop spreading fake news about Riot. You're attempting to hurt their reputation for things they haven't even done.

MartyrofsandDec 21, 20171 votes

There is this thing called a joke and sarcasm, both seem to have gone WAY over your head.

HalcyonDwellerDec 22, 20171 votes

There are too many people out there who express that exact belief that you expressed, and they do it fully believing it. As in they 100% think that Riot would fuck over balance just to make players suffer and laugh at them for it.

You are writing in a medium that does not convey sarcasm well. If you did not want someone to think you were serious in saying, "welcome to preseason where riot laughs at all the chaos," then you should have written something to indicate it was sarcasm.

Using italics works, so does putting a "/s" after your comment.

The OasisDec 21, 20171 votes

Could also be that they were boosted and they've lost so many games since that their mmr tanked to silver levels where they belong.

Malix FarwinDec 21, 20171 votes

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Could also be that they were boosted and they've lost so many games since that their mmr tanked to silver levels where they belong.

Then wouldn't they demoted at least to gold?

HalcyonDwellerDec 21, 20171 votes

Because their MMR is low, and/or your MMR is high. They wouldn't be getting matched with you if you were not at their skill level or if they were not at your skill level.

Alternatively, people could have messed up the algorithm by queueing as a party with high and low MMR players, thus widening the spread of scores required to balance the teams' MMRs.

Mysticman89Dec 21, 20171 votes

A quick glance at your match history shows you've been playing a bunch of flex recently, which might be related to your issue if you're referring to solo/duo ranks despite playing flex.

It's important to remember that solo/duo mmr is distinct from flex mmr, so theres plenty of people with decent solo/duo mmrs but somewhat less impressive flex mmrs.