Being matched/Facing with unrankeds?

Chibbity·10/3/2016, 5:21:01 PM·2 votes·399 views

What's the deal with the huge influx on unranked people in ranked? I'm silver 3 and the last month or so I've been playing against or with multiple people that are unranked and very fresh level 30s. I've been ranking up so it isn't because my ELO has been going down, but it has made playing almost unbearable and not fun at all listening to everyone complain or one team get entirely steam rolled. My last game I had FOUR unranked people on my team and I alone had 3x the games WON as my entire team combined against a team entirely ranked from silver 4-1. Yeah... We were shit on. What changed because it's never been like this before?

Also, we are approaching the end of the season (and the Victorious Skin was just leaked). Many players are probably starting ranked and trying to quickly climb before the season ends in hope of rewards.

Honestly, this usually happens. The start of the season can be a clusterfuck since people haven't had a chance to climb yet (leaving them with MMR lower than their skill level) and the end of the season has some people spamming games to climb and others only trying to maintain their current rank.

It is why I tend to play most of my games mid-season. I have found the most success between March and August (after the initial rush and before people stop caring).

Being matched/Facing with unrankeds?

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Also, we are approaching the end of the season (and the Victorious Skin was just leaked). Many players are probably starting ranked and trying to quickly climb before the season ends in hope of rewards.