This is every game. If you read any of my posts about rigged matchmaking, what I have learned more and more in the last year or so is that it's really not entirely Riot's fault. It's all the boosters, and boosted. I googled some of the top boosting sites (there are thousands...yes thousands) of boosting sites and what that does is that puts League's BEST players, many of which are probably even better than pro players, at soloq anyway, it puts them all in low elo. Day after day, week after week, grinding low elo on other people's accounts. And where does this put the trash low elo players? It puts them in high elo.
Example: Trash player stuck in Iron hires booster for a diamond boost. Best player in the country, trying to make a living boosting, now plays ALL those games from Iron to Diamond, dominating 90% of them, thus ruining ALL THOSE GAMES. Trash player takes a few days off, then gets on their nice newly diamond account, q's up for ranked. Walks around the map all game like they never been there before lmao.... rides the wave right back down to iron or wherever. Thus ruining ALL THOSE GAMES all the way down. Multiply by 1000's. Every day. The majority of games are ruined before they even started.
Lets say you're a plat player. You're currently in gold. Sure you're better than everyone else, except that booster who is #3 challenger on this main. So you're good enough to put a dent in the balance, but not as much as that guy. Now you lose. Now you're even lower elo than you should be...every game anyone is in EVER that isn't their true elo, is kind of unbalanced. If 9 silvers all at their "true elo" go in a game with just 1 plat smurf or diamond smurf, there goes the balance. 4 or 5 of them go down in rank. What i'm saying is there are all these variables impacting the balance of the matchmaking in all these games. I have only mentioned a couple...but there are just so many:
people not getting their main champ
people not getting their main role
people just waking up half asleep
people who are sick and have slower reaction times
tilted from other games
friends playing each others accounts
those who haven't played in forever and just got on
boosters
boosteds (see 2nd paragraph)
smurfs
people with trash internet
power outage
various other reasons for bad connection or DC
someone being coached in videochat so playing better than normal
not in true elo just due to not playing a lot of ranked, but absolute beast in those 1000+ corki blind pick games :D
I'm tempted to just keep adding to this list because I always get these idiots who try to disagree. In a lot of situations they can say "well it's more likely the bad players go on enemy team than yours because 5 people there and 4 teammates" but while this is somewhat true, all of these things still seriously mess up the balance of the games, and take it out of the individuals control. 90% of the people in the game could be (all that shit I listed above) while you're just 1 guy...with a bronze here, a challenger there, a DC here, a tilted guy there...it just f's up the balance BAD...it just takes the game completely out of your hands. This is why good people can often rise, and bad people can't, but it often takes hundreds to thousands of games for the odds to actually help them. So yea, those people are right, but everyone would have to play 1000+ ranked games for it to matter, which most of us don't have time or fortitude to do... I think i'd end up in a damn psych ward before I made it to 1000 lmao.
So we have all this sht going on, and then Riot's poor matchmaking trying to balance it all out, which probably makes things even worse. Name one thing Riot has created which wasn't LOADED with bugs...why would matchmaking be any different? It's probably trying to compensate for boosters and just making things worse, then bugging out half way through leading to games like in OP's screenshot. I used to blame Riot...but now that I trulyunderstand the complexity of a matchmaking algorithm for a game of this magnitude...the job of balancing these games is near impossible. To even BEGIN at it, they would first have to stop boosting all together, and stop smurfing as well, or have a truly beast smurf detection algo (which I believe they may have actually).
I honestly which Rioters would read some of my rants because the guys working on the matchmaking would be like "wow...someone understands how damn hard my job is" lmao
