Riot, is there any rhyme or reason to the grades assigned for performance?

My ADC Abuses Me·5/20/2016, 1:09:27 AM·1 votes·616 views
http://imgur.com/73Q10Se

The game in the picture earned me a flat A.

I shouldn't even need a comparison to illustrate why 11/1/19 on support Bard is nothing less than S+. But for direct comparison I went 9/4/12 (a strictly worse score) the match before as the same champ in the same role with roughly the same game time and the nearly the same gold earned and got an S.

So, Riot, tell me what rules are at play so that 11/1/19 = A performance and 9/4/12 = S performance. Because any one with a rudimentary grasp of logic would infer that there freaking aren't any.

I might not have cared earlier but now that you are making me grind for blue essence and do this nonsense to achieve the higher levels of mastery you guys are responsible for a certain standard of internal logic in the system.

Link is my match history so you can see the two games. If you can find a single plausible reason why my better game got an A and the worse one got an S, please, enlighten me: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-history/NA1/208075813

2 Comments

Fondling Gems5/20/2016, 1:13:57 AM1 votes

Dmg, cs, wards, objectives, kda

The Sword Saint5/20/2016, 1:22:10 AM1 votes

Wards, time spent dead, overall map presence, how well you performed with your specific adc, how well you performed against that specific botlane, total time you cc'd enemies for, number of champions hit with your bard ults, etc...

We don't know what goes into the special sauce, only that it requires special tuning on a per champion and lane and mode basis. They could be using literally any of the data they see fit to get their calculations. KDA is the most basic and probably not even particularly important part of the calculation.