Your rank apparently means nothing

Tiddy Twister·9/10/2016, 9:59:08 PM·24 votes·1,759 views

Look at this. Ten games into ranked and I'm silver 1, playing vs golds and plats. Every game. How does this make ANY sense? If I impressed you THAT much in promos, then at least give me gold. You want me to beat plats in order to advance from silver.

http://imgur.com/a/XFYXc

29 Comments

LazyW0lf9/11/2016, 2:17:01 AM7 votes

It's because of your MMR. Higher MMR means more LP gains and less LP losses, but also means you're being placed with higher tier players. IMO, this is weird because in your situation, with high Gold MMR, you should be in high Gold...not Silver 1.

It doesn't make any sense that you should be facing someone in Plat when you're Silver and if you have a high enough MMR to justify playing against them, you should be at the appropriate rank. The only time you should ever be playing with anybody in a different tier than you is during promos to that tier or Diamond+.

Tiddy Twister9/11/2016, 1:02:27 AM3 votes

Here's my next game, in case you didn't believe me that this is EVERY single game.

http://imgur.com/a/hKJOM

oSEXYPLATYPUSo9/10/2016, 11:28:17 PM2 votes

it happens everywhere. welcome to dynamic queue

Drugoth9/11/2016, 2:35:18 AM2 votes

The system almost always places you in silver even if you go 10-0 in your placement matches. You usually have to climb to your proper position after that. As for the reason you're getting matched with golds and plats... I think the only thing we can blame that on is dynamic queue and those players MMR being much lower than it should be for that division. Either that or the premade groups are so out of whack that the MMR balancer has no idea how to deal.

Anyone's guess really as to the true nature of why this is happening. Personally I just look at it this way: maybe I really am so good that I deserve to be matched with those guys!

Unstoppable Monk9/11/2016, 2:38:42 AM2 votes

Yeah that is a little weird.

Seenan9/11/2016, 1:32:29 AM2 votes

I'm backwards atm. I'm in plat facing low to high golds because my mmr flopped due to feeders+toxic peeps. Feelsbadman.

Darth StepVader9/11/2016, 5:45:32 AM1 votes

Due to this season's dynamic queue, not only is the system unable to matchmake premade groups of similar elo but, players of low elo have made it to higher ranks. So, some of those high gold/plats you're facing are either a part of a premade group that Riot matchmade with a premade group on your side(despite it having possibly lower elo players) or those high golds/plats simply have very low mmr and are in a rank that they do not belong in.

Nuparu9/11/2016, 7:19:06 AM1 votes

that could honestly be a 4stack on your team vs a 5 on the enemy team

your MMR is low enough (literally. silver 1 isn't that high, not offensive but in objective sense) to balance out the high golds/plats and enemy low golds/plats

Stanford Pines9/11/2016, 9:06:05 AM1 votes

This happened to me too when I was climbing my way from Silver IV (5-5 in my placements,2nd season) to Gold V (Gold II atm) It rebalanced when I reached Gold IV (ish) and matches you with similar golds, but it's still annoying to play against plats in silver

ofart9/11/2016, 6:06:05 PM1 votes

there's too much skill variance for teams

Gora T9/11/2016, 7:00:59 PM1 votes

Been there, done that.

ViciousSummoner9/11/2016, 7:40:02 PM1 votes

You just have high mmr and the guys in plat are probably like 2 games away from being demoted back into gold.

Veigarisgod19/10/2016, 10:03:14 PM1 votes

You are placed more off your MMR then your elo. Blah blah blah LP etc. I'm not an expert on it.

Frius9/11/2016, 8:24:07 PM1 votes

you are boosted too fast and get qued with higher tiers ,dont be fast boosted ,play safe

Itankyou9/10/2016, 10:26:31 PM1 votes

It's a bullshit system. I'm playing against diamonds and they are shoving bronze people on my team. And then they cry when I have to run it mid cuz what the fuck is the point.

Zone of Endless9/10/2016, 11:20:50 PM1 votes

Season 6 is fun :^)

cinomenapplebae9/11/2016, 2:19:19 AM1 votes

What website do you use for this

General Esdeath 9/11/2016, 3:46:46 AM1 votes

Welcome to DQ

zero3569/11/2016, 4:07:41 AM1 votes

Dude, I feel you Mine isn't as bad, and you can check op.gg.na for specifics, but golds and unranked and the occasional plat and holy shit. I'm playing to prove I'm better than is silver so let me play silvers. Silver II to Gold V, plz rito plz