Mastery Ranking System?

DreamWar·Jun 21, 2016·1 votes·561 views

How does the mastery ranking system work? I don't get it. Sometimes it seems almost impossible to do so well with a champion. Especially, on certain champions that aren't already "in the meta" - it just makes it a lot more difficult. Example; some of my previous games and games that I have seen.

16/0/2 -** A+** (Me) 14/7/(x)** S-** (Me) 10/1/(x) A+ (Me) 5/4/8 S- (Ally)

How is going 16/0/2 not worthy of an S? Like, come on. If I got an A+ for that score, I guess it would be impossible to get an** S+**? I've seen people to tremendously poorly and still get an S or greater. I have even seen a go 1 -10 and get an S-.

Someone please enlighten me.

3 Comments

ThugWalrusJun 21, 20162 votes

KDA is only a fraction of how your ranking is calculated. For example if you went 16/0/2 but the game had 60 kills, your kill participation is not that high, which would lower your grade. CS is a substantial part of the grade. Warding, objectives, what role you played the champ in, and how other people perform on a champion are also factors. Other things like damage dealt/taken could also influence it for all I know. Nobody knows the exact weighting of these factors so there is no point in asking about that. One method that has worked for some people is playing champs in off-roles and performing well to increase their grades (like Kennen ADC instead of top or something weird like that)

korvuskrowJun 21, 20161 votes

yeah....what he said^^^

Rindin14Mar 2, 20171 votes

so...is there any reason for Riot to be so mysterious and strange about this scoring system?

Why don't they show you end-of-game your scores in various areas (warding, kills, damage, etc) and explain why you got the score you did.

Also, it feels really bad trying to get S ranks as supports who can't pick up cs without taking it from other lanes. Going 8/2/9 (17 kills out of 29 on the team) on Taliyah support and being a grade short of the S rank I need for level 7 really stinks.