Ranked solo MMS is designed to keep you down.

Yukon79·5/13/2015, 11:41:20 PM·2 votes·1,131 views

After many long discussions with riot through player support I have had it. After telling me many times there was nothing wrong with the MMS. They finally admitted it was broken. But I don't think they realized that they did. Also they told me to post my findings here. After doing so they band my account from the boards tell 2139. But insist I post here anyways. So I made a new account. This will probable get banned too. So take notes fast.

I'm going to make some quotes from player support.

My First quote is from MAROWE (Player Support Game & Account Team) at Riot

First off, you will never, ever be placed at your skill level at the beginning of the season. The reason tiers and divisions exist is so that you can climb the ladder over the course of the season.

Yep placements purposelessly place you 5 tiers lower then you actually perform. So that way you get discouraged and troll. In their mind it’s so you can climb. Right that's why it’s called a ladder? If you got placed where you should be you won't play right? Ranking in its current setup is only meant to hinder you. You will spend a lot of time just getting to where you should be. Not actually improving. But don't worry all this is by design.

My Second quote from the same riot support person.

So back to the point of "matchmaking is crappy." Yes, it can be. It will probably never be perfect, either, which is why we're constantly making updates to our matchmaking system. Is it impossible to work with as it is, though? No, and you've made it farther than Silver II before so you can definitely do it again.

Riots support loves to keep pointing out that I am lower then i should be. And that it isn't a problem. And it is done by design just so I can climb back up. Not only do they keep telling me this, but they insist everyone prefers it this way. Because no one complains. This was even explained further by them. Using my Hidden MMR. I was told that I was matched with Gold2 level players... Using MMR. So if I am matched with my current level of players... how am I supposed to climb back up to Gold2? Where I should be ranked? This in turns creates what is commonly called ELO Hell.

Instead of working with me or a dev to fix many issues I discussed with them. About the MMS system. Especially over solo queue. They instead insisted that they couldn't do that. And I should simply post it here. Where it will get ignored they hope.

Quote from me

You mean you can't do your job and show the dev this support ticket?

Response from Riot support player MAROWE

No. We never do that through player support.

There were many facts and reasons I went over with them about. How the MMS for solo rank queue was messed up. I showed many different games in my match history from my main account. Explained what it did to the match and proved many things to them. And the response I got was. Simply that they couldn't do a dam thing and to come post it here. I am not going to go through all that work again. So i will simply just quote a few things I already did. And leave up to you guys. Do you guys love being placed lower then you should be? Just so you can climb back up? Even with all the other problems I pointed out. This is the only one they willing admitted to. So figured this was a good starting point. To show ELO does at least exist in LOL.

I hope you guys don't do what Riot wants. And ignore this issue.

2 Comments

xaadus creedus5/13/2015, 11:50:44 PM1 votes

I think the system could be tweaked, sure. But honestly? Its pretty good. I don't really like the fact that MMR is hidden though, wish we could see it.