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Can't win this season

Tenarin·2/6/2020, 9:33:08 PM·4 votes·2,167 views

Anyone know what may cause me to not be able to win at all this season? Last season I was 58% winrate or higher right up to plat 3 (from placements). It even took less than a week. This season i'm at 40% winrate currently, I haven't been playing much ranked, but when I do it feels VERY rigged. All 3 lanes almost always lose and I get an awful kda and just every enemy feels like a challenger smurf and every ally feels like they just came off a boost from bronze. It's not just my teams because like I said i'm performing much worse.

I main jg, and when I played last season it was at the very end. I think I got to gold in time for rewards and did the rest after that, so I think there as 1 patch difference between then and now. I got a chat restriction and usually when I get reported a lot and/or punished I noticed I get worse teams, and it happened this time too in both ranked an blind. Then a couple days ago I started getting normal games again in blind, but in ranked i'm still getting destroyed. Like I said I made it up to mid-plat and btw it was easy asf, so probably could have gotten to d5 if I kept playing. Right now i'm low gold and can't win anything.

The only thing I can think of (and it's pretty far fetched) I hate to say here because there's like 10+ people just waiting to disagree with me and call me paranoid. Like I said before, it feels like after chat restriction I get screwed by matchmaking for so many games. What i'm thinking is that if this is a real thing and not my imagination, maybe it does x number of normals, and y number of ranked games, and I played enough normals to get unflagged or w/e you want to call it, and I just haven't played enough ranked games yet.

So i'm going to continue with good behavior and see if this stops at some point. It may have just ended because the game I was just in we almost won. It felt a lot more balanced than the others. Well anyway i'm open for any theories or if anyone knows what is going on. I main jg so let me know if maybe they just nerfed the shit out of jg again. Also I focus hard on dragons and even with soul this last game we got stomped in a teamfight at the end, so i'll have to look at last patch and see if they nerfed dragons or something.

BTW I know I have a lot of guesses and theories in here, so if you're just going to say "dude you're crazy they don't give you shitty matchups due to behavior" I don't really want to hear it. It's just a theory I have. I'm sure others have noticed it (some have told me before) which means it is quite possibly part of the matchmaking algo. Whenever I start talking about matchmaking algo I get all these angry people who start arguing trying to say ...well pretty much that there is no matchmaking algo. That's not what i'm looking for. Just want to know of any other theories as to why I was good at the end of last season and i'm shit now. I'm playing the same way and doing the same stuff exactly...nothing has changed in my play style in the last month.

4 Comments

Waaaarrrrgggghhh2/6/2020, 10:33:28 PM1 votes

probably because you were getting carried by your teammates. Finally the matchmaking is working and you will soon be where you belong. Oh and yes those afks and trolls in your matches are just part of the game! its your fault you didn't win that 4v6 for your team!

Tenarin2/7/2020, 2:06:49 AM1 votes

For anyone interested, I believe my theory was correct. When you get a chat restriction you get x number of normal games and y number of ranked games which are rigged heavily against you. I'm not sure if it's on purpose, or if they just give you other people who were punished, and maybe the reason the games go so badly is because they are quicker to get tilted while the enemies aren't... idk. Hard to say why Riot does the strange things they do. Regardless, I didn't get the exact count of games, but it was at least 20 normals and 10 or 20 ranked. I could very easily tell when it was lifted in both. The game got stupid easy, because I had been so used to impossible games...teammates not responding to anything, enemies all playing like smurfs / boosters (because they probably were), whole enemy team in my jg chasing me around all game because they have realized i'm the only person without 5+ deaths at 10 minutes...lol... as I presumed my last game earlier wasn't rigged, I just made a lot of mistakes and the enemy team was just better. The next game I got S+ because it was disgustingly easy due to my account probably no longer being flagged, and my winrate reaching a low of 40%. Free win time. Can't wait to see the haters tear into this. Hard to argue with though when this has happened every time I got a chat restriction or 2 week ban in the last 3 or 4 years. The next 20 - 40 games are almost all rigged all to hell...too big of a coincidence.