ok so, I've never been gold in my entire lifre, i have hope that someday it will happen you know, but oh my god, rank queue is fcking broken, that was the cherry on the sunday when i ran in a riot employee that was diamond 2/3 average elo last season into one of my game. WTF is that??!!!
The problem is that they didn't revert positional matchmaking, only positional rankings. They did this because their data suggests positional matchmaking lowers queue times. However, positional matchmaking is an issue, since it tries to place your position with a player of the same skill, but other players on the team can have their rank vary by a huge variance, and it doesn't depend on your ranking. I've had whole team's average mmr be multiple divisions lower than the opposing team's. Team of bronze's vs silver's, team of silver's vs gold's, even silver's vs diamond's. I'm silver, and I was facing a plat person in my lane. We won that game I believe, but it was super stressful for me.
Last season's matchmaking was more fairer, even if the queue times were longer. I'd rather have quality games over quantity. Not everyone has time to waste on a 20-50 minute game if it was unfair from the start. It puts mental stress on the players, and ruins the whole legitimacy of skill in the games, when it's just a coinflip on who gets the higher ranked players on their team. You didn't have this issue last season, when it tried to average everyone on the team to the same mmr, instead of just your laner.
GOLD 1 (SOLO QUEUE)
He's not diamond at the moment.
So on a less serious note maybe the matchmaking was changed so that riot employees could face easier opponents such as this s2 player here so that they climb easier to higher ranks so that they can finally get some high elo people on the balance team.
How exactly do you think this should work? They just automatically get ranked where they were before? Where's the point in that...
After my placements I climbed really fast out of bronze with 37LP per win, now suddenly I got 6 matches in a row where other players where completely unable to play and gave up, were soft inting, so it was impossible to do anything. Also got chat restricted for criticizing my team when they give up after feeding their lanes and ignore all pings... like wtf. This is a complete joke. I can't help but think that Riot does everything to piss their players off. With matchmaking like this they are literally provoking toxicity. I even had a support player in one of my games who had less vision score than top at 20 min and when I ask them to use wards (... you know because it's really frustrating when you want to carry, but your team provides zero vision on top of your 1 or 2 wards) they tell me "did you know that toxic players lose more games".... this is just absurd. I am almost tempted to believe that Riot does this on purpose. Apparently you are not supposed to try and play well anymore, not saying anything that remotely counts as "negative" is now top priority. Who cares about skill or game knowledge or communication? ...the matchmaking makes that irrelevant.
Wha-? Sis have you even been watching Blau's streams? He got to diamond by abusing Zilian, not cus he's some god. He literally has been non stop losing and got demoted all the way down to gold. Like go off I guess.
LOL that KDA on ahri tho.
