Why Am I Constantly Playing Against People In Plat/Diamond

Piccolo Rick·Aug 18, 2016·1 votes·3,643 views

I AM IN SILVER 5. SILVER. 5. And over the course of the past few months, I've been noticing that I've been in queue with people in Gold (which is fine), Plat, and Diamond. Given they're sometimes on my team as well, more often than not I play against what appears to be people that are premade of groups of 3+ because of the type of coordination they have. Maybe it's just their experience that kicks in so I may be wrong there, but the quality of my games have been horrendous of my end. I cannot perform to their level because the Plats are 2 tiers ahead of me, and of course the Diamonds are 3. So I'm constantly flamed from my own team and flamed from the enemy team. Riot, I've no idea what's going on but fix this! I hate playing because of it!

12 Comments

MajesticWindbagAug 18, 20162 votes

Ye, I'm constantly playing diamonds in normals who keep playing their mains against me...

KaiokoAug 18, 20161 votes

Based on your match history you're only playing in normals. A person's MMR in normal is calculated completely differently from their ranked one so that high rank players who use normals to try out new champs and different builds or just have a less stressful game can do so. Also normals would allow for example, a bronze player to be paired with a diamond player resulting in the average MMR being close to yours.

Piccolo RickAug 18, 20161 votes

So, given that, why can't those who are in Plat and such have an algorithm in place where they stay within their ranked play? Don't get me wrong, I like playing with people who know what the hell they're doing, but going against people of considerable more experience than myself is absolutely killer. Even in my ranked games (the.. very few I played) i had gold and a plat on my team consistently. Furthermore, it was shown that it was similar on the enemy team. I do normals mostly to just relax, but when I'm consistently getting my butt whooped because of the experience gap it's not relaxing.. It makes me angry like a ranked game.

DREADN0UGHTAug 18, 20161 votes

This is an often asked question and the answer is quite simple: Your ranked MMR does not match your Normal MMR.

This means you could be Wood 6, and still have high Silver/Gold MMR in Normals, and given that most people in high elo rarely play Normals, the probably have a MMR similar to yours.

I wouldn't see it as such a bad thing. I remember when I was still in Silver or Bronze, how I wished I could play with Gold+. You can learn from them. Why not see it as a positive thing?

Piccolo RickAug 18, 20161 votes

Because everyone just becomes rather toxic. I really have learned alot from me, in all honesty. (I've played since the end of season 3). But I still want a game where I feel useful even at my experience level, you know? Playing against such high elo people or having them on my team just really makes me feel useless when my team either flames me, the enemy out right stomps the lane I'm in, or when I try to explain myself. Reporting said behavior doesn't necessarily help either. :/

DREADN0UGHTAug 18, 20161 votes

I'd say the difference between Silver and Plat is mainly mechanical, and somewhat macro knowledge.

I don't know what position you play. But looking up tutorials on internet can help. A 5 minute video about trading can teach you alot.

Piccolo RickAug 18, 20161 votes

honestly, I play every role equally. More or less I mean. I know how to play each role and play it to where it should be played so I really have no true role that I outright main.

DREADN0UGHTAug 18, 20161 votes

You should though. Being a jack-of-all-trades was a good strategy back in Season 5 and before that. Since the implementation of Dyanamic Queue, people are getting really good at 2 roles specifically, specially those ''ranked only'' players.

So if you truly intend on climbing to X rank, I strongly suggest you pick 2 roles you enjoy and learn 2-3 champs per role.

I placed bronze 1 this season (Gold 5 in Season 5), to get back to Gold was easy, I just spammed 3 champs in the jungle ( Kindred RekSai Nautilus ), and 2 on adc ( Lucian Jhin ). Took me around 2 weeks.

Now I'm switching roles again, I'm heading back to Top lane like in early season 5, so I'm practicing Ekko Gnar Nautilus and Yasuo for Top, and keeping my and RekSai up to date for jungle.

Having few champions that you specialize on really makes climbing easier.

Piccolo RickAug 18, 20161 votes

Hell, I'm almost tempted to ask for a bit of help in game from you lol. But I do tend to play Mid or Top the most. I spam the hell out of Malzahar for both. If I dont get him I'll use Cassiopeia Ekko Syndra mid lane. And sometimes Ryze . Top has Ekko , Illaoi or Gnar . As I type this I just did a ranked game where I did extremely well in lane, but top fed so hard their Irelia carried. So ranked woes. back at it again.

DREADN0UGHTAug 19, 20161 votes

Win some lose some. Some once told me ''even faker loses games''. That puts some perspective on the table lol.

But yeah, just stick to what you like and feel confortable in, not what is ''op and meta''. I know of people who got to Diamond playing awkard champs like Teemo (Wuks). A friend of mine got from silver to Plat by spamming support Taric (pre-rework).

KaiokoAug 18, 20161 votes

You've played all of 20 ranked games this season. Your MMR isn't even normalized yet and quite frankly based on your record you actually belong at a higher level ranked play. You're actually probably more along the lines of a gold level player and if you'd just play ranked matches the game is going to help you get there by making you lose less IP than you gain.

Time to put the big boy pants on.