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Ranked matchmaking and LP win/loss is broken/f*cked

Gannon211··1 votes·809 views

I'm in silver 4 at the moment and I'm improving my skills to get better at the game. I started out at bronze and it was difficult to climb out of that toxic wasteland. Now I'm in silver I thought it should be less stressful with more of a challenge which is what I want. BUT the matchmaking is f*cked. I'm constantly, I literally mean constantly being put in teams where I'm the only silver and the rest of bronze 3/2/1/, and the opposite teams are full of silver 5/4/3's. When I say constantly I'm talking 4 out of 5 games. This is really annoying, because I know the other team are better than my team clearly and this doesn't even balance the game out in terms of skill. I'd rather wait an extra minute in queue to find players in my league than making queue time faster and getting thrown bronze scrubs at me.

I repeat, ranked matchmaking is f*cked.

Also my LP loss/gain on these matches are just not right. you gain/lose LP based on your MMR and how well you performed in the team you're up against. So if I'm in a team with bronze people up against silvers and I'm carrying with 10+ kills but STILL lose, you'd expect me to lose around 17/18/19 LP right? No, every game 24 LP loss even though I was clearly the top performer in my team and the odds were against me from the beginning. And In games where I do win against people with higher elo I get like 16 LP. So if I was on win one lose one routine, I'd just fucking drop, even though EVERY match the odds are against. It is so frustrating, they cannot expect me to carry bronze scrubs out of their league, that's just unfair...** Because then they'll get into leagues their skill doesn't match**... It's like putting a team from football Spanish league La Liga against a team in Segunda (the league below what teams like Real Madrid are in) and if a team from La Liga win (which no doubt they will) it affects the standings of the other team from the league below, which is unfair and broken........................ Please Riot fix your ranked matchmaking

Like I said I would literally add an minute or two to queue to find BALANCED teams rather than just unfair matches.

5 Comments

GodPigIet1 votes

ugh no.. its does not depend on how well you performed whatsoever. Don't know who told you that lmao.

Your MMR is really low if you're in silver 4 and being matched up with Bronze... Good luck climbing friend. Once you go on like a 8+ game win streak, your MMR will go back to even, but until then, the frustration will most certainly ensue.

Gannon2111 votes

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ugh no.. its does not depend on how well you performed whatsoever. Don't know who told you that lmao. https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/204010760-Ranked-Play-FAQ#h2q3 click the third heading under leages and league points. It says if you win when the MMR odds are agaisnt you'll gain more LP, even tho it doesn't happen to me.

To think putting a full bronze team agaisnt a full silver team in SoloQ is fair for the standings in each league is blinded by riot fanboyism. It doesn't make sense to put a team of lower skill against better players in another league. Seriously, just read my football example, that's how it should be. You should only play players from your league, that's why your in that league man cause you have that level of skill

Sailor Mint1 votes

If your LP gains are negative, you're currently playing players with an MMR several divisions lower and the system is trying to push you down towards your expected ranking.

The system is working fine for ~97%+ of the population. Low Diamond and sub-Bronze V MMR players being the exceptions.

Gannon2111 votes

Ight fairplay on the LP gain/loss but I'm still annoyed I get matched with bronze people. I started in bronze, I worked to improve and get into silver to be matched with people who have more sense. I'm annoyed because this isn't what I'm getting................... You can say they expect me in bronze right, but how are you really going to tell who's the better players if there's an unfair balance in skill? If it was something like 3 silvers and 2 bronze's on each team then that's fair. But seriously, I'm getting 4 bronze people, against five silvers.... That's fucking broken idgaf what anyone says

FHMarshy1 votes

Yet another one of those "I can't get out of my league because matchmaking is fucked, Fuck you riot" type of guy.

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