Boards›Gameplay

Flex MMR concerns

DriftSideways·7/15/2017, 6:34:47 PM·2 votes·403 views

Hello,

I understand that the flex MMR has it's own system separate from SoloQ to give everyone a fresh start, however, I personally am having a really bad time with it. I waited several months to pick up ranked again because I knew of this and didn't want to get matched up with people way above me and have a bad time but I am constantly put in a struggle where the balance of the teams are often quite mismatched not so much because of pure difference of rank though that has determined a few of my games but as a solo player I have been matched up against 3man and 5man premades when my team at most had a 2man premade. You might counter back with me saying why don't I play with friends. Well sadly most of my friends who played this with me since season 3 have all but quit due to lack of interest in this game. Find new friends you might reply or play soloQ instead. Well unfortunately most of the games I've played with I didn't clique with anyone and Riot stated there was rewards for both ranked systems so I must continue to play flex until gold minimum.

All that being said it wasn't too terrible most of the time I went back and forth and then got a lucky break of an 8 game win streak and went up to silver 1 and like 98 LP. And then the Kayn update game and I literally haven't won a game since. In fact I'm on an 11 game lose streak and got demoted down to silver 2. Was there like a hidden MMR update because I'm getting put against tougher opponents then I was just before the update or am I just REALLY REALLY having some bad luck? I kept going to each new game with a fresh look hoping that the streak was just like my win streak and would break but I've finally tilted after my last 2 games which we easily could've won but then was thrown and lost to the point where I got demoted down. So I'm taking a short break to cool off and wrote this in the mean time.

I'm sure some of it is my fault and I am not putting blame on anyone. This is more of a rant thread then anything. But suggestions would be great or if anyone else has had similar issues with this besides me.

DriftSideways

PS: sorry for the wall of text TLDR is I'm a little salty about flex.

1 Comments

Very Hard Engage7/15/2017, 6:41:51 PM1 votes

went 7-3, placed g4, was happy with my results, vowed never to touch the game mode again because literally everyone else besides me (the solo player) thought of the game mode as normals and people just trolled around in it like it doesn't matter.

(only touched it for the bonus rewards riot promised)

teams had vastly differently skilled players and it was a toss up of which lane could carry harder against their pleb opponent.

im entirely convinced the mode only exists for diamond players to smurf and carry up their terrible friends to gold/plat where they really dont belong.