I realize that there will probably be several posts about this, and I usually have never had any complaints with this game. Recently though, the matchmaking for the Flex queue has been really disappointing, especially after I thought Riot supposedly fixed this. I don't see how it is okay for the matchmaking in a RANKED queue to put masters players against gold players, that's three tiers of difference. Is anyone else having problems such as these?
Brighton1 votesAccording to the statistical win chance, you have the advantage.
Genuwhine361 votesYeah that matters LOL Ask any high elo player the master tier player will rofl stomp that team no matter what. Thats like saying galio is op because his win percent is high because only one trick ponies play him lul.
Genuwhine361 votesIts the same in solo que lol Ive had my gold 5 players get raped by plat 5's who would have thought that would happen? People try to bring in the "mmr" bullshit but Im pretty sure if they were the same mmr they wouldnt play drastically different lol. I guess their matchmaking system is just broken during preseason.
Kittase1 votesOdds are you're playing ranked players who use un-ranked to try out new stuff. My understanding of MM (which is really old, but as far as I can tell it never changed) is that you actually have two (or more) ELOs:
In short, playing ranked (and getting to Master or whatever) increases your Ranked ELO, but not your normal ELO, and vice versa. I believe ELO also drops over time if you don't play a game mode (but I'm not sure about that). So at the end of the season, when ranked goes away, everyone's normal ELO gets used. If you got to master by playing a lot of ranked games, but maybe only touched normals to learn new champions, odds are there's going to be a vast ELO discrepency. This happens every pre-season. There are really simple fixes to this (when ranked ends, your unranked ELO becomes the greater of your Ranked and Unranked ELO), but tbh I don't think it's one of those things that Riot cares a lot about.
