How is a Silver 4 Support and a Gold 2 Mid with three bronze players equal to a Gold 4 ADC Silver Support Silver Mid and two bronze players? Its never even because I'm sorry the higher ranked bot lane team will have a significant advantage. Why not just have people play in the same Elo?
J Epstein1 votesI has a game while I was G4, got paired with two plats, a silver, and an unranked on my team. Meanwhile enemy team is all Gold. oddly enough the two plats and the unranked fed.
Resolution1 votesIt's because when people match-make together it sets the system off if there in different divisions. The game tries to compensate for the lower person, and throws random skill levels to try to even it out.
Calabok1 votesnormals dont match up ranks. only mmr
CitadelOfIce3 votesnormals dont match up ranks. only mmr
This is ranked Bro
CppL1 votesits cause of the premades.System knows that premades has advantage vs solo players ,so they throw higher lvl players to play against.witch ,fucks you up if you are solo player.In other words ,riot fucked up matchamaking really bad with a dynamic crap.
Locke Daemonfire1 votesI can't find the game you describe at all. On your op.gg, there isn't a gold 4 or a gold 2 at all in the past few days. Based on the timing, there's a match you lost with a gold 5 mid where you were against 4 silvers and an unranked. Was that the match you are referring to?
Shrek Luigi1 votesYou answered your own question in your post inadvertently. Whenever matchmaking happens, the system not only takes players' rank into account but their hidden ELO (called the Matchmaking Rating) as well--so if the Bronze1 player is on a 420-game hot streak then he may have the potential to be matched up against a Gold3 who last his lost 69 games or something.
The system is also a bit lax to cut down on queue wait-times, which would be noticeably longer (particularly at certain points of the day) if the game had to sniff out 9 players in your ballpark of relative skill. I don't agree how with the skill matchups are shuffled either though, to your point about how the team with the better botlane has the inherent advantage.