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MMR interaction for Normal/Draft (basically non-ranked) when in party

PawsPuppy··1 votes·1,742 views

Hi,

Just a quick question regarding how MMR works.

A friend of mine recently started playing League. She's obviously new so I imagine her MMR would reflect that.

I've been playing for a while but I'm not terribly good either. I usually get to Silver and remain there contently :) I'm currently summoner level 45.

My question is, how does MMR work when I queue for normal games while in party with her? Does it combine ours and average it? Go with whoever's MMR value is higher?

I'm asking because in our first normal match, we got pitted against similarly new people. I could tell from their profile that their summoner levels were in their 10s and 20s. But in our second normal match, it was the total opposite. We got matched against people who were at least over 100 summoner level. This one Yasuo was summoner level 238!

I'd hate for us to consistently get matched with high level players to the point it would discourage her from playing on. She's determined and all but there's only so many loses and roflstomping one can take before calling it quits. Would it be better if I just create a new account so there's less chance that we would get matched against seasoned players?

Thanks for your help!

1 Comments

Kai Guy1 votes

To my understanding from an old post back in the day, It trys to build a game around the average MMR of your two accounts, and it adds a little extra MMR to balance out "synergy" for premade groups.

the exact values are not shared, In my experience when qued with some one who has a wider gap of skill this usually results in high uncertainty MM and match quality varys a good deal..

Some games the enemy are all similar levels of skill and my friend stands out as lower when I stand out as above. Some games are similar where higher level and lower level accounts are used but not all of them are always premades.

I assume population in que is related to this as MM does not have the option to not build a game.

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