Any idea why high golds are being matched with people who've never played ranked before?

Brutalitops01·10/27/2019, 6:31:05 PM·1 votes·1,359 views

No joke, feels like every game I'm matched either with or against someone who has never played ranked before ever. Not even just the first game of ranked this season, first game of ranked EVER in their League of Legends career. Last game, it was both of my bottom laners. And yes, they both fed really hard. I camped bottom lane (I was jungle) and they didn't once react to my ganks. I did everything I could, but you just can't win in high gold when 2 of your teammates are high iron at most.

3 Comments

Kai Guy10/27/2019, 7:45:08 PM1 votes

My guess is Riot wanted more players to earn Gold. The "ranks" Have been shifted to reflect that. Starting MMR looks to be in Silver 2 possibly Silver 1. Starting MMR usually represents the mid point due to MMR sorting on a curve.

Riot sets what MMR range a rank is supposed to represent. The MMR range can be the same and riot can change the title to be what they want.

Edit. Just to be clear those "iron" players have more wins then losses playing in gold MMR.

haaaaaaalp10/28/2019, 5:09:00 AM1 votes

They redefined what gold means this season. Large parts of gold now is traditionally what we thought of as silver in past seasons which is where we expect new accounts to pop up.

FioraWillCarry10/28/2019, 5:18:35 AM1 votes

New accounts start in Gold elo. It's the mid point between Diamond and Bronze. Starting new accounts there helps everyone get to where they belong faster. In other words, it should take a Diamond player an equal amount of time to get to Diamond as a Bronze player getting to Bronze.