Silver 2 Player facing Gold and Platinum Player

Devalic·9/8/2016, 1:22:09 AM·1 votes·1,533 views

Recently I been getting matched up with Gold player and up to platinum and I am only in silver 2, this isn't fair because the enemy team skills are way better than mine. So when I play against them, they destroy me. Can I fix this? like why do I have to face people who are two tiers higher than me? I don't really mind gold player but platinum players are too much for me.

5 Comments

ZDrahgonz9/8/2016, 1:24:54 AM1 votes

Basically this means that RIot see's that you are able to compete with these higher ranks because of your recent games. I'm sure if you lose a few it should even itself out and you won't be playing with Plat players

DeathBurst9/8/2016, 1:29:22 AM1 votes

In Normals queue, it happens quite often. Most higher ranked players use Normals as a training ground, and so have a much lower MMR, because they don't play their main role/champ. If for some odd reason (cough farming chests cough) they decide to use their main once in a while, they stomp, but nothing anyone can do about that.

In Ranked, it's more strange, but the 2 most plausible factors are: 1/ premades inflating your team aggregated MMR; 2/ players stuck at the top/bottom of a tiers and whose displayed ranking is somewhat disconnected from their actual MMR. Also, the second point applies especially to you. If you are yourself significantly above 50% winrate, your MMR is probably above your displayed ranking and you are matched against people from the same MMR, not displayed ranking.

Knifecat Reborn9/8/2016, 2:10:21 AM1 votes

No one can do anything about it. The only thing that can change that is Riot and they're not about to put up sections in ranked play, they feel it would limit a player's access to higher skilled people if they want to put their own to the test. Plus this would be a huge change that would effect a lot of things. Also if they did this then everyone would be making/playing on smurf accounts to help their "buddy". Either way, you'll still be playing with/against them whether you know it or not. Not much can be done about this, you just have to study how they play, use that to change how you're playing and hope for the best.

Devalic9/8/2016, 2:51:59 AM1 votes

Ok, thanks for letting me know. It was a rank game and I started playing against a few gold and plat player, but after I won those game, the next few game I played was with only gold and plat.