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Why does Normals MMR exist?!

High Noon Yåsuo·8/11/2016, 9:24:56 PM·6 votes·1,223 views

Okay so this is more of a personal rant, you guys might not agree with me at all but I am very open to other points of view and if you disagree with me I'd love to know why.. Maybe I'm just wrong.

Anyways, I've recently moved to NA both geographically and in the League Server. I used to be d4 on EUW and have been playing for over 3 years now... So I'm nowhere near the best but I consider myself to be fairly experienced. As I moved into my new place... Its still a bit of a mess and I don't have working ethernet connection and I'm forced to play on wifi and my ping spikes all over the place. As a result I don't really want to play ranked and cause my team the loss as I can't play to my full potential; and I've been placed in p5 with a really high MMR (+27 win -13 loss). So naturally my next alternative was Normal queue, however in EVERY single game of Normal queue (which I used to literally never play) I'm matched with players who are significantly lower rank; I'm talking silver/bronze/unranked. And whilst I have nothing wrong with players who aren't as high of a rank it creates a very toxic and unfair game... especially for the enemy team: Nobody enjoys getting steamrolled by a Katarina who is too high of a rank to be in these games. So I looked up why this was happening and apparently discovered there is a "Normals MMR" which works similar to your ranked MMR, so the more normals I win the higher my MMR and the higher my MMR the higher the division of players I'm matched with.

Personally, I really don't see the point of this. As a competitive player at heart I hardly ever play normals; but lets say for instance I wanted to practice Kled before playing him in my ranked games; I cannot really enjoy or learn a new champion when I'm just steamrolling a team of players who is significantly less skilled than me ( not trying to brag, but its just the truth).

To maintain competitive integrity and create a fun/relaxed/fair environment I would absolutely love for Ranked MMR/Division to be implemented in Normals matchmaking, I personally would completely scrap the Normals MMR system and simply replace it with Ranked MMR however this would hurt the Hardcore-Normals players. I really believe this would allow players like me who wish to practice a new champion in a relatively competitive environment have a fun and enjoyable experience along with lower rank players to improve their skills in a also competitive environment, Let me know what you think! -anirataK Only

13 Comments

Zane Zephyr8/11/2016, 9:32:39 PM2 votes

I'm in Silver 5 and I think my last at least 10 matches have had at least one or more platinums in it

I don't mind the challenge, but it's like fuck...really?

Gary B Enkelis8/11/2016, 10:14:14 PM2 votes

I mean if normal and rank share MMR then why have both? Actually I kinda feel like we don't need normals at all. I don't know. But, uhh, don't judge people for being silver in a normal, either. It's possible they are quite good but barely play rank.

Locke Daemonfire8/11/2016, 10:30:08 PM2 votes

Do you mean that Normal games would never affect your MMR, only Ranked would, and Normal games always used Ranked MMR? Yeah, that would be rough for people who just want to play Normals. They'll eventually find themselves in the same position as you, always playing against lower skilled people because their MMR would never change.

The bigger issue would be for newer players. If their MMR in Normals never decreases, then they will forever be playing people too strong for them. Some of them won't even have a way to adjust their MMR, because they don't have enough champs to play Ranked or are not yet level 30. I guess you'd have to adjust MMR based on Normal games at least until a player unlocks Ranked.

Maybe a solution would be to allow people to sync their Normal MMR to their Ranked MMR at any given time. That way, for highly skilled people that only play Ranked, they can voluntarily boost their Normal MMR to get more fair matches. Obviously don't allow the other way around (not allowed to sync Ranked MMR to Normal MMR). Maybe also don't allow it unless the Ranked MMR is higher, to avoid people trolling Normals by making their MMR artificially lower.

S0NA8/11/2016, 9:45:41 PM1 votes

Same im plat and i always get matched with silver bronze and unranked in normals. Its boring, honestly.

Malfini8/11/2016, 10:09:52 PM1 votes

Just my two cents. To show which players are boosted on ranked.