How to lower your MMR?

AerialSnack·Aug 26, 2016·1 votes·5,333 views

My MMR is about 150 points higher than where I am placed. This means that overall, the rest of my team is going to be 150 MMR lower than the enemy team, since the game tries to balance. The result is often that me and a bunch of Bronze 3's & 4's are matched against Silver 3's and 4's. I'm not very good at carrying (I'm working on it, I think I'm improving) so my win rate is stuck at about 50% (it makes for a very slow climb).

Is there any way I can lower my MMR? Or do I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how this works? Is there any benefit of having high MMR?

Thanks for your time!

9 Comments

venomous frostAug 26, 20161 votes

nobody knows your MMR except riot themselves, sites like lolking only have an estimate MMR calculation

you cannot lower it except by losing games, at which point you will also get less lp for wins and more lp lost for losses

AerialSnackAug 26, 20161 votes

I see, so the best option for me is just continue trying to climb as I am. I suppose I'll just have to work harder on getting good at carrying, thank you!

venomous frostAug 26, 20161 votes

correct

if you're facing silvers in bronze games it's most likely the fault of premades queueing up with bronze/silvers

i'm mid plat and still have golds in my game that are duo queued

DynikusAug 26, 20161 votes

Is there any benefit of having high MMR?

you climb faster the higher your mmr is than the average in your division.

if you're 150 points over your current division, you should be getting a lot more LP for wins than you lose for losses. For example my mmr is a lot higher than my rank right now, and I get around 30-32 points for a win, and only lose around 7 for losses. If your MMR is high enough, you can actually skip divisions, like you can go from b4 to b2, b3 to b1, etc. You just can't skip past division 1, or division 5. So potentially with high enough mmr you could go b2>b1>s5>s3>s1 etc

AerialSnackAug 26, 20161 votes

I've been getting free wins for the promotionals, no skips yet. Although this would explain why I get so much more LP per win than all my friends.

venomous frostAug 26, 20161 votes

you get free promo wins because of a thing called "promo helper"

it gives you a free win if you've already won the promos but dropped back, this lasts up to gold 1