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Matchmaking keeps putting me against way higher ELO players

Crackt Apple·11/28/2016, 4:03:25 PM·1 votes·2,064 views

Is this happening to anyone else? My MMR is average for my division (Bronze 3) and yet yesterday I played against multiple teams where they had Gold or Plat players and yet my team was still generally around my ELO. The last game I played before getting tired of being stomped I was playing with a LEVEL 19 (random matchup) and the enemy team had 3 Gold players and 2 Silver players. Even if people were queuing up together, what the hell am I doing in that game? I wanna get better, and I'm good at taking responsibility when I'm the reason my team loses, but that's definitely not what this was. If I had the time I could definitely get myself up to Silver as I am right now, but there's no way I can lane against Golds and Plats in Solo queue.

Basically I'm gonna be staying away from matchmade games on Summoner's Rift until this is fixed because this is ridiculous. It makes playing frustrating and sucks all the fun out.

5 Comments

Restless Slumber11/28/2016, 4:14:41 PM1 votes

My tip to you is try to learn from playing against these much better players. If I was losing to challenger players every game I would be much more content with the loss than getting Gbay99 on my team, not give me jungle, play Warwick, and go 2/10 at the end of the game.

aylí11/28/2016, 4:40:45 PM1 votes

The best way to get better is by playing vs better players and learning from your mistakes and theirs, that being said I know the feels, season 5 me and my premade got to gold 5 and started being grouped with gold 1 to plat 2 players, wasn't fun so we just gave up when they removed the ranked decay for gold =, but yeah playing vs better players will help you improve even thought it's usually a boring stompfest

tigernick11/28/2016, 4:47:16 PM1 votes

is this happening in ranked or normal games

The Fuzzy 0ne11/28/2016, 5:46:02 PM1 votes

Which queues are referring to? Level 19 means norms but then you mention solo queue... Keep in mind each queue has it's own mmr, so in norms, you could get high ranked players because they might not have played norms since they were just starting or a lower rank. If anything though, it should help teach you how to play from behind and how to take objectives when you can

Crackt Apple11/28/2016, 8:03:38 PM1 votes

This was in a normal game, but I haven't had the best experience in ranked in this regard. And I feel like there's some limit to the ratio of what you can learn against a better player vs how much better they are. I'm fine playing against better players and learning by losing, I just think if they're too good I lose more than I learn.