That's cool and all that for some reason he's got the same normals MMR as me, but let me tell you, having a masters level player in a silver level game is, how to I put this, about as fun as grinding my genitals off with a nail file. I'll link the game where this happen if you guys want me to but it's pretty fucking stupid this is happening.
On the topic of the thread, though, it's because the account never played norms. So it had no norms MMR. Your very first norms game was a 20/6 Garen game. That set your MMR that high.
It doesn't matter if you are unranked, bronze, or plat. In normals the average elo of each team is about equal. If there's a diamond vs a silver in one lane, then another lane has a bronze vs a plat. This doesn't make it fair, but the elo of each TEAM is balanced.
So if you're truly playing vs a challenger - first off I'm pretty sure they wouldn't waste time on a normals match - then you or someone on your team has challenger elo rating whether you've ever played ranked or not. Or if not that, then say 2 of you have master tier rating and the next highest ranked person on the other team would have elo equivalent of diamond. There's plenty of people though who use accent marks, etc. to make it look like they have the exact same name as a challenger or pro player - which is a far more believable possibility than that you are actually facing a challenger in a random normals game.
There's no MMR thing in normals (at least from my knowledge...someone can correct me). Today is going to be an awful day for normals due to rank being down. YOu can get bronze vs challengers in your games
Oooh I correct myself rank is up now
This has been my life for the past month
