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After completing my first season, I feel League's Matchmaking System is Rigged

Ooduwa·11/30/2019, 12:19:04 AM·1 votes·885 views

So I started playing League roughly a year ago. I began in norms and took my lumps before jumping into ranked, and by the end of season 9 I'd climbed from Bronze III to Gold IV with an 86-81 record. Being that I main Support, my best champ was Leona, who I carried a 64% win rate with before I stopped to focus on practicing different champs/ roles in norms. After feeling confident with the changes of Season of 10 and mastering a new champ, I jumped back into ranked, only to find that winning matches is now nearly impossible...

As it stands, I'm currently stuck in a 8-9 game losing streak which mostly consist of complete and utter stomps. It seems that no matter how well I play, the games are mostly one sided loses that end in 15-25 mins. Not that I haven't played a stinker or two, but my play style hasn't changed, in fact I'd argue I've gotten better. I ward early and often, try not to feed or fall into bad decision making, don't steal CS from my ADC's, and even mute all(keep pings on) so I can focus my energy on the game and not on typing. But there isn't a lot I can do when so many of my teammates are being dominated. Though, to be fair, they aren't always to blame. Because even if I'm playing my best, it's asking a lot for a Bronze or unranked players to be able to effectively compete against Gold players. That is to say, I've noticed quite a few matches where my teammates are unranked or Bronze, while my opponents are Gold.

All in all, it's extremely disheartening, because I'm starting to feel that my individual contributions aren't worth much. I'd even go so far as to say the weakest players feel as if they're having a larger impact than the strongest, especially now that Dragon control carries so much importance. Has anyone had similar experiences, and if so, what advice do you have in combating these sort of streaks? I'm out of ideas. =/

https://u.gg/lol/profile/na1/ooduwa/overview?queueType=ranked_solo_5x5

https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Ooduwa

3 Comments

Kai Guy11/30/2019, 1:58:25 AM2 votes

Have you considered trying to learn a kit in normal before playing it in ranked? Just saying your Wr on Senna is not doing you any favors.

As your new let me warn you. Preseason and the first month or so of ranked are high chaos. Also your gonna see a spike in shit games during high school vacations.

If you see accounts under 50 games do not trust their rank to be an accurate reflection of skill.

Emelie Cauchemar11/30/2019, 1:37:08 AM1 votes

It's not rigged. You just haven't adapted gold 4. If you keep playing like a silver 1/2 player and expect to climb out, you won't get very far. One of the many mistakes support players make is that they're not very proactive. By the looks of things, that's probably the case with you too.

Top of that, it's preseason and virtually nobody cares.