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Riot gives you bad team on purpose after 3 win streak!!! Or do they?

Dr Poro··4 votes·2,967 views

I've seen a lot of complaining and complot theories around this. If you go on a winning streak, Riot would give the enemy team good players and your team bad players to make your winrate 50% again.

I am a living example to proof that this is NOT true! I just finished my 10 placement matches (I was plat 3 with the MMR of plat 1 at the end of last season) and I won ALL my placement matches. And tbh... My team went from bad to awesome as my winning streak continued. During my first 3 matches, I had to carry my team to victory because everyone but me was (slightly) behind. During the last 7 matches, especially match 6-9, my team was just so good that I just had to go even against my laner to win.

What this means is that the relative skill of your team compared to their team is RANDOM and I just got extremely lucky and others just got extremely unlucky. That doesn't mean Riot is complotting against you or having a hidden agenda to boost my ELO. Winning streaks happen. And they usually continue until you have a bad team (or if you perform poorly yourself). This makes it pretty obvious that your team sucks "after" your winning streak, because if they didn't, it would probably still be your winning streak and the next game, or after 3 games your team would suck.

Note: My playstyle is very much based on the lategame. I try to get slightly ahead or even during laning phase, farming as well as I can and trying to help out other lanes during midgame. If your lane opponent is gone, either push down their turret or gank yourself (usually it's not a great moment to gank yourself so jsut push down that turret). A teammate might die, but your team also gets 100g per player to compensate. In the meanwhile, your lane opponent lost quite some farm.

3 Comments

Creamy Seaman1 votes

See I would want to believe you, but you are wrong. They need to keep everyone at a 50% win ratio if they want to keep the game "fair". People hat get past gold are just slightly better than the rest. Not by a land slide.

Dr Poro1 votes

They aim to make your future winrate around 50%, not your total winrate. Players will typically remain an amount of wins more/less than losses, because those games were played before they reached their MMR (the skill level at which they win 50% of the time). They do this for example by increasing the MMR of both enemies and teammates you are matched with after a winning streak, not just your enemies.

BukkakeBallerina1 votes

Eventually Your MMR will become alot higher then it is currently and Riot's ranked system will give you teammates who are at a lower elo then you. This is a fact. It's how they make you prove you deserve to be at the rank you are. I, like you noticed the same thing you did that I went on stupid long win streak till I started being the highest elo in my team. Think about it like this you are climbing, and riot's system will treat you as "normal" at first because your elo isn't that high you haven't been winning a lot of games in a row. So the system will group you with players of equal mmr who are deserving toof a higher mmr (this maybe be luck) so they in the THEIR mmr are getting the noobs (you) because you aren't on the same win streak they are, so the system is like ok those guys needs to prove their worth. Little does the system know you are also a beast and should be at a higher mmr which in turn means you end up on good teams. Like you said you were fortunate that it worked out this way. As you keep getting good teams and winning the system begins to adjust and give you players at the same mmr and lower (like the guys who were in your teams before) so that you don't keep getting the better players and that you prove your not just ranking up from luck. So basically I agree because there is an element of luck because when you are getting the lower ranked teamates they could also have gotten lucky to get to the elo they are at and therefore it makes it harder to carry them but it can also work in your favor because you may get people of your mmr or higher/lower who are good enough to keep rising. It just can get to the point where you are doing so well that your teammates may be in a lower division and be noobs therefore you feel like you are in a form of elo doo doo and that its impossible to win because they suck so much.

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