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Can We Get Some MMR Balance In Our Games?

Luner Hunter·5/23/2016, 5:00:29 PM·2 votes·373 views

Let me start this off with this. Yes i know some of you reading this will say "QQ newb, get gud" or "you're just salty you're getting your ass kicked" which neither of them are the reason why i'm posting here. It's about balance, riot says they want "dynamic que" to be fun but playing +2 divisions is unfun. I am Silver, no matter my subdivision, I should not have to play vs plats in every norm i play. I have screenshots of my past few games (norms) where there is atleast 2 plats on the other team. Now i'm not only posting here because I don't want to play + 2 divisions, but because i've been looking through my games and seeing that bronze players have been playing VS Golds and Diamonds. I have screen shots of this aswell. The sad thing is I can't get a match with just silvers/golds without playing ranked. No one should be forced to play ranked just to play with people in the same division or +1 division of you.

Long story short: non-ranked Dynamic Que either has messed up matchmaking or matchmaking is messed up in general

I suspect this will get a lot of flaming, but haters will hate.

6 Comments

Verxint5/23/2016, 5:26:53 PM1 votes

Normals have a different MMR from ranked and the matchmaker isn't as strict about fairness for the sake of shorter queues.

You shouldn't be expecting balanced matches outside of ranked.

Mysticman895/24/2016, 1:58:27 AM1 votes

The thing is many people play differently in normals than ranked, and so while someone who is taking things super seriously on their main champion might play at a plat level, when they're playing around on other champs and/or not taking things seriously they may only bring a silver/gold performance to the table. As such, people of various different ranks can legitimately be on even footing in normals.

Normals also is the place where people are allowed to queue with friends of vastly different elos, which sortof necessitates mixes of skill levels on a given team.

Normals having its own MMR is also pretty important to keep things even potentially fair, since if players were stuck only being matched versus comparably ranked people instead of comparably skilled people, then smurfs would constantly stomp people, and continue to get match made against those same people. (Instead of the current case where they do pretty quickly end up facing appropriately skill players even if their ranks are mismatched).

Also, what do you feel the purpose of normals is? And by contrast, what is the purpose of ranked? Is a sense of competitive balance crucial to the former, or is that niche filled by the latter?