Why do we have to get punished for having high MMR?

TS Media··4 votes·476 views

Can you just let us skip divisions by keeping games even? Why do I HAVE to carry 90% of my games just BECAUSE I have a higher than normal MMR? I don't wanna be that guy, but I'm going to have to be that guy. Why do I have to consistently, really, CONSISTENTLY get entirely worse players on my team than the enemy team? That isn't to say it's EVERY game, but it sure as hell is most games. I'm really not stretching this out when I say my bot lane is the reason I lose games 90% of the times. And I have to carry 90% of my games... see the maths?

Being a top laner, it's insanely hard to have much impact before your team starts feeding in the gutter. And before the "Oh, but your team has the same chance as the enemy team to get bad players." Uh, no. If you have high MMR, and someone on the other team has a low MMR, their team is going to have significantly better players than you and you WILL be the deciding factor in whether that game is lost or won. Just wondering if Riot has any plans on dealing with this or if we're just going to continually have to deal with this?

PS: I'm not saying games are impossible to win or it's my team's fault for me losing. But it's sure as hell their fault for making my games 10x harder than it needs to be and for most of my frustration in league. But hey, thank GOD we don't have to deal with DYNAMIC queue again. Just it's AFTERMATH.

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Michael7021 votes

Yeah, if you have high MMR but aren't playing a carry, you probably already lost.

MBausK1 votes

How about stopping to play Riven only and pick something that helps the team instead?

If you are playing riven and your team gets shit on in a 4 v 5 while you split, dont put the blame on them. You already seem to know, that gold players tend to start bad teamfights. And since you do not want to teamfight that much as riven, just play, let's say, sejuani or maokai top and help your team win the fights that they lose without you.

TS Media1 votes

What does my champion choice have to do with anything? And did you even read everything I write? I just said I don't blame my team for my loses, just for the difficulty of the game.

You only think you know the half of my. Half my games, my team only has to worry about 3 people and they lose 4v3s not 4v5s. It's THOSE games that makes it terrible hard take seriously anymore. If I can't rely on my team to take any objectives while I'm huge (but they're too far behind for me to group, so it be a terrible idea to do so) then it's up to me at that point to solo carry. And I fail to see how my champion choice has anything to do with that.

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

Can you just let us skip divisions by keeping games even?

This is technically possible. The system tries to avoid this though, so it is almost never seen outside extreme outliers. Generally when people achieve a super high MMR but repeatedly fail promos.

But hey, thank GOD we don't have to deal with DYNAMIC queue again. Just it's AFTERMATH.

Riot did a hard reset when they brought back Yolo Queue. Despite the frustration it has caused, this actually did more good than harm in the long run. It washed out players who kept artificially high ranking and flushed the bottom elos giving them a fair equal chance to climb (as long as they waited half the season).

TS Media1 votes

To my knowledge, riot didn't do a hard reset since season 2 or 3. If they did, then challengers etc would be dropping down to gold and silver etc. I know because when I did my placements, I landed in Gold 5 even though I finished gold 4 last season. The only way that would've been possible is through soft resets, not hard.

As for your first statement, I just want consistently fair and competitive matches. I know some games are going to be stomps and some will be difficult... but I really don't want to be on the outside looking in for most of the games.

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

I could have sworn they did a hard reset after Dynamic queue, but I may be confusing it with this clusterf*ck

A lot of posts about a hard reset, but I can't find where Riot said it. :/ (You need better search filtering, Riot.)

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