idk what to say

TheMonkeyKiing·9/30/2018, 12:29:08 PM·1 votes·1,206 views

Why is it that I am put into a game where i get a level 29 jungle on my team who has no idea how to play because all they did was farm jungle camps for majority of the game without a care about anything happening on the map, and this play is the same player who is afraid to 2v1 because we both are going top to stop enemy jungler and its a 2 on 1 but the shyvana walks up then backs out and I die. But that's not why I am mad. I am mad that I am already beyond level 50 on that account and im still being given level 30 players who are most likely returning players or below level 30 who are new players. I get that match making isn't determined by level or rank alone but rather the match making rating, but it should be obvious that I am not a returning or new player so I should be getting pairred up with other players around the same skill level. Yet on the enemy side, they have 2 people who are level 100. Yes again, level does not determine skill or match making rating of a player, but it does however show you how long someone has been playing since levels were implemented. All of their players on the enemy team were either above 50 and the other 2 were over level 100. Only 1 guy out of them was level 30. Meanwhile on my team, only me, yasuo, and morgana are above level 50 but not even level 100. but the other player is level 29 and the other is 30 and then the enemy team has 2 people over 100 and the rest above 50. Idk about you, but that's some terrible match making. We should have gotten like at least 1 level 100 on our team to somewhat balance it correctly. Again, i know level doesnt directly correlate to skill... but keep in mind, we got stomped because bot fed and jungle was just afk farming. I was 5/4/9 despite being tower dove that game and yasuo on my team is 14/5/5. the morg is 2/11/11, the shyvana jungle is 3/4/1, the xayah is 0/5/8. Keep in mind the shyvana is level 29 and the xayah is level 30. I must repeat myself but i get level alone doesnt determine skill, but it does determine experience and these two had little experience being such low level, and it shows through how bad they played that game with their score. I can say also that the shyvana played like a brand new player who had no idea how to play the game. I get people are new, people are bad, dont get mad at them because i used to be one too. But why is it that I am getting players on my team with a huge skill gap difference since they are new, yet the enemy has higher experienced players. Their only low level teammate was a level 30 lux who actually went 11/0/13..... something went wrong during the match making there. I get that it isn't perfect, i just want to bring this up to maybe have it improved upon. Just want to have it "a bit" less lop sided. small improvements would be nice.

4 Comments

TheMonkeyKiing9/30/2018, 12:31:36 PM1 votes

This happened on another account I played on so if you look at my match history and say im not level 50, it is because I am playing on another account. I don't want to play on this account anymore but i just like to post and comment in these forums with this account. The other account of mine is the main one I play on.

Frightning9/30/2018, 12:40:58 PM1 votes

Answer is simple: you actually belong in that MMR. Account level doesn't mean jack, just ticks up w/ XP (and only since pre-season of this year, doesn't count games played before then if you were already 30; also, people smurf and such, so that might not be their only account).

The game is pretty lopsided by nature: league is a snowball game. Make a good play, get a lead, then next fight is easier because you are now ahead. Rinse, repeat, and you're eventually pretty much unstoppable as a team. This is why a 1.5% gold lead (that's one team having 1.5% more of the total gold earned in the game than the other) in pro play at 20 mins results in an over 70% chance that the team that has that lead ends up winning the game. 1.5% at 20 mins in a pro game is like all of 2k gold lead.

Some games your team will just fail, and it's not your fault. It happens, but the reverse also happens from time to time. In the end, there are 9 other players in the game whose skills and eventual performance are unknown to you, but the enemy team has 5 of them, and yours only 4, the last person on your team being you, the one known element, and the one thing you absolutely and completely control. What will YOU do about the situation(s) you find yourself in this game? That's up to you.