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I genuinely want to know what's going and what I am supposed to do.

Tremaursen·9/1/2019, 12:11:14 AM·1 votes·1,318 views
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I peaked at D3 this season, which I actually don't think is my skill level. I peaked, then expected to level out.

I then dropped to P3, then went on a five game loss streak and am now P4

These are those five games

https://imgur.com/a/Diat0VH

I have one game where I can look at it and say "I should have played better and I need to realize that and learn from this game." The rest of them? I have absolutely no idea. I've taken teleport and saved bot lane from being wiped in multiple games, teleporting while I have a wave pushed to tower. I succeed, and as a return I get bot lane immediately getting wiped as soon as they go back to lane and I lose a couple plates and a lot of CS top.

I play a carry champion top and do well enough, but not anywhere close to how fed my enemy bot lane gets

I play jg, and every lane just eats shit. I shutdown every enemy lane only to have them immediately get their bounties back as soon as I stop babysitting. (Dead serious, my last game I accumulated over 2k gold for my team from shutdowns)

What am I supposed to do. Am I actually supposed to assume I deserve to be dropping because my bot lane does consistently WORSE than 1-10?

I'm not mad because I can't climb back up to Diamond. I don't expect to. I've been a gold player for two season, I know I'm not suddenly good enough to go to average Diamond. I am mad because it feels like I am not allowed to put up a fight. I've looked over my match history, I have bad games that detriment my team, but I DO NOT have game like the ones I am seeing my teammates have. What, as a player who wants to focus on what they are best at, am I supposed to do to stop these kinds of games?

btw, the last two games I had the same enemy top/jg duo, I wonder what they are doing to get these kinds of matchups.

3 Comments

Darkdemon6539/1/2019, 12:15:16 AM2 votes

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Am I actually supposed to assume I deserve to be dropping

If your MMR is equal to what is expected for your rank and you can't maintain a ≥50% win rate, yes.

Hordes669/1/2019, 12:53:11 AM1 votes

Look at how many of your teams have 3 or more 0-X feeders on them and there you have it.
Game 1 2-11, 2-10, 3-8, 3-4. You were the only +kda on your team, and therefore according to the *-stain riot apologists on this board, you must be trash, and you had no chance to carry this game. Sorry, try getting better.

Game 2 You went even. Your bot lane fed hard, and you had 1+ kda on your entire team. Therefore according to the *-stain riot apologists on this board, you must be trash, and you had no chance to carry this game. Sorry, try getting better. .

Game 3 You had a bad game. There were no +kdas among the 4 other members of your team that could have carried you. Therefore according to the *-stain riot apologists on this board, you must be trash, and you had no chance to carry this game. Sorry, try getting better. .

Game 4 You did well, and were the ace for your team. However, your 4 teammates fed hard, with a sup that maybe did ok. Therefore according to the *-stain riot apologists on this board, you must be trash, and you had no chance to carry this game. Sorry, try getting better. .

Game 5 Out off the 5 games shown, you were the underperformer here. You had 4 other teammates capable of carrying the game. This was probably the closest, fairest match made, and the most exciting game even if you were odd man out. This match is representative of maybe 10-20% of all time spent on LOL. Therefore according to the *-stain riot apologists on this board, you must be trash, and you had no chance to carry this game. Sorry, try getting better.

Those games can't be won by you alone. But here it is - YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO CARRY AN ENTIRE TEAM in 80% of your games. The matchmaker is shit-tier garbage. I've seen this same post dozens of times since season 9 started, and I've seen the same lack of quality in my own, frustrating games. Not only is it mathematically impossible to win and climb with teams of that caliber, but it is mathematically impossible for a "well designed matchmaker" to put players into matches that are that consistently one-sided and unwinnable.

Your only available option is to play anyway and hope someone eventually pulls their head out long enough to figure out how to fix it, or play a game that has a more enlightened and capable staff running it, who aren't actively a 5th column driving players away through a series of really bad gameplay and balancing decisions.

I suggest you take this issue to https://twitter.com/MarkYetter who is in part responsible for the matchmaking algorithm. You can also post this data on Reddit, where it will be more likely to get seen and noticed. The boards have mostly been forgotten, in large part thanks to snowflake crybaby mods running it.