Are Riot Employees ok with match making?

Smalltomahawker·6/29/2017, 2:30:30 PM·1 votes·373 views

Does Riot employees just bend over and take it like the rest of us when it comes to playing this game? Obviously the one's who actually play must since they play on the same system. I just don't get how it doesn't bother them. Some are low elo players... which there are tons of reasons to hate ranked in low elo. Some are what diamond players? I have never played in Diamond but there are gripes with that elo as well.

In silver elo you are going to get retardedly matched or just terrible games 50% or more of the time. That's literally all that elo is. At least in mid gold I feel like 60-70% of my games are evenly matched. But in silver it's probably not even 50% of them.

I won't even consider myself a smurf since the difference in gold & silver not that much generally. But anyways playing on my 2nd account yesterday was a shit show. I don't main adc so I was practicing some Lucian. I am mechanically garbage at the game so adc can be rough for me (especially high mechanics one like Lucian) so I need some help from my team to carry.

First game.... was just a bad game by me and everyone on my team. It sucks but it happens. Although every lane lost and jungle went 2-8 I will still count this as a fair game..... I guess lol.

Game two our mid Xerath intentionally feeds enemy mid 4 kills then leaves game. We played it out since there was a high chance they would throw but sadly they didn't and we ended up losing. Joke of a game though 4v5.

Game Three. Enemy jungle Evelynn gets 20 kills and hard carries. Well how did this happen? One look at Evelynn account and you would have seen she was 11-1 with that game being her 12th win bringing her record to 12-1. Now I don't know about you but I would say... she clearly not a silver player. And seeing as our hard stuck silver 3 jungle got absolutely destroyed by her I would say she at least a plat level player. Now.... to me she didn't seem that great... better than myself I am sure but I didn't even realize she was fed most the time. But... unlike my teammates I am used to playing verse plat players and it's not as overwhelming for me as it apparently was for them. But... what I have learned is if your jungle is two tiers lower rank than enemies its basically an auto loss. I have won a few flex queue games this season on my main where my team is getting stomped but we win because I am mid gold jungler vs a low bronze jungler and I beat them up so bad I can still carry a game even when rest of the team doing poorly. The power of a higher skilled jungler.

Game 4. I got autofileld and made a bold prediction that enemy JarvanIV would be top since well...... only place I have seen JarvanIV played in months. Sadly I was wrong and enemy went Garen top into my troll LeeSin pick I was hoping to play vs JarvanIV. Needless to say I got fucked haha... Still though.... it's pretty DAMN hard to win a game when your mid lane has 75 cs over 30 mins into a game.........

Game 5. Hey finally won one! Was garbage play by both teams but that's what I and everyone should expect in low elo.

Funniest shit is... I am not even like smurfing or trying to play in lower elo or anything. My account literally deranked to bronze after early season placements. Now I am finally slowly just ranking it up. It sucked since I was at 55% win rate and getting 25lp a win. But after the losing streak it down to 22. Keep in mind it is an alt account where I don't play best champs and generally play different roles. But nevertheless it's annoying as fuck playing through silver. You never know when you will get the freshly new level 30 player on your team or get an auto win by playing vs them when they on the enemy team. Never know when you going to have someone rage quit (have yet to see it in gold but it happens in basically all elos so guess can't count that). Smurfs are around and pretty much auto win for enemy team but since it such a large population in silver you don't see it as much as higher elos.

Just wish Riot would start taking stats into consideration. When someone like Evelynn wins almost every game with crazy high k/d/a don't slowly rank them up... but give them huge mmr boosts and ranks so less uneven games. Basically.... if people wreck game after game in a certain elo it's clear they don't belong there. Buffing this metric would decrease impact of smurfing or people being placed too low of a rank.

ALSO PLEASE START PUNISHING INTENT FEEDERS. This shouldn't be something you can do 500 times before ban. Literally one to two times max for (at least every couple months) in case someone has internet problems 1 day. Even then though... low priority queue for a couple games or something. Then penalize after that insanely hard. If someone clearly intent feeds like 5 games in 6 months they really should just be banned. I have played since season 7 and never intent fed more than a few times. Generally only have on a new account trying to lower rank but then if I got punished I would have stopped doing it. But literally can afk like 3 games before even getting low priority queue.... like seriously wtf Riot.

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