Rito pls

The more games you win, the bigger the elo difference between your team and the enemy team.

Contrary to what dumb people believe, you don't have a 50/50 chance of winning each game. Some games are **matched **in your favor, some are against, the purpose is to keep your win rate at 50% so you play LoL as much as possible without stopping, thus earning maximum money for Riot.

As compensation, here's what Riot's system does:

If the matchmaking favors you, you earn less LP if you win, because the system expected you to win. If you lose the game, you'll lose more LP than normal because you just lost a game that was in your favor from the very beginning.

If the matchmaking favours the enemy team and you lose, you don't lose as much LP. But if you win, you win more LP than normal.

From my experience, I was in Diamond 4 playing by myself in ranked flex queue (as soon as it had released). At that time, challenger and Diamond 1 players were teaming up as 5 to climb the ladder.

I got matched against their team of 5 challengers and diamond 1 players, while my team was Diamond 4 and Diamond 5. We lost the match, but we only lost 5 LP because of the huge elo difference.

MMR does not equal Rank and Matchmaking goes off of MMR.

Considering plat 5 can be anywhere from gold 4 to actually plat 5 (or technically or bit higher) in terms of mmr, that doesn't seem so bad, particularly given the various gold ranks are themselves anywhere from gold 5 to plat something mmr. It's when you start getting full tier differences (without duos) when eyebrows tend to start raising.