Matchmaking!

Zeliwin·12/2/2014, 5:08:51 PM·1 votes·465 views

If I'm not good enough to be called "gold" then stop match making me with Golds. Match me with Silvers since thats what you consider me as.

6 Comments

CLG Factor12/2/2014, 5:11:55 PM1 votes

Unranked mmr is different than ranked

metaworldpeace1012/2/2014, 5:12:54 PM1 votes

Looks fine to me, if you wanna rank up, you gotta learn how to play against those that are in the tier above. (IE Silver 1 playing with Gold V's or Gold 1's playing with Plat V exc) Plus, the skill difference between a Silver 1 and a Gold V/IV is pretty negligible.

Zeliwin12/2/2014, 5:17:11 PM1 votes

It's the principle, I'm suppose to be ripping Silvers apart to prove I'm good enough for Gold, I'm only suppose to play golds in my Promos. But I been playing against nothing but Golds since Silver III, Which is wrong. and I'm not unranked btw.

xJLx MCHammer12/2/2014, 5:45:53 PM1 votes

Op this match is perfectly fine. Look my my games then start complaining. I'm silver and many games there are plenty of plats and diamonds

Sayuri12/2/2014, 9:43:33 PM1 votes

Those are mostly all gold v. If you are in tier v you won't drop down to the next division until your mmr is a full division below where you are. For example, if you are gold v, your mmr must drop to that of a silver v player before you will be demoted to silver i. Most of those players (the gold 4 maybe excluded) have silver level mmrs. Also there isn't much difference between silver i and gold v in the first place (same goes for gold i and plat v and i'm guessing all others)

Also, looking at the number of wins of those players, it is apparent that they have a ton of ranked games played. The more you play, the more your win/loss ratio will balance out (ie get closer to 50%). The amount of LP that you win or lose is dependant on how often you're winning compared to losing. For example when you first start you may go on a winning streak as you move up and you will be gaining 25-30 lp per win and losing only 13-16 per loss. As your wins and losses even out, so will your lp gains and losses. If you start losing more than you win you will eventually lose more lp for a loss than you gain for a win. In my experience after about 400 games (approx 200 wins) you will have pretty much been placed where you belong. Many of those gold players have much more games than that so just based on that it appears that many of them belong somewhere in silver but just haven't dropped because their mmr isn't silver v yet.

You can usually spot a smurf if they show as being a division below you with very low wins (e.g. a gold iii player, playing against plat ivs, with only 30 ranked wins) and likewise you can usually tell who belongs lower (e.g. a plat v, playing against gold iiis, with 800 ranked wins). Whenever I would see an opponent with 400+ ranked wins I knew it was my lucky day.

Based on your screenshot, your corki and nasus will be moving up the ranks fairly quickly so you actually got the better team despite all the other team being gold.