Matched Against Higher ELO

Anus McCreamhole·Nov 16, 2018·1 votes·1,544 views

Hello all,

Recently, I have been matched over and over against higher ELO players. As an unranked player, when i use websites such as porofessor, or LolKing, too see my opponents stats and match history, I notice that they are often High Plat or even Challenger! When I lose the lane, my teammates are obviously frustrated with me for my performance. I fail to understand why I am not paired against Bronze or even Silver players, compared to the Challenger and Platinum that I currently play against.

7 Comments

Anus McCreamholeNov 16, 20181 votes

I'll add in here that I am currently level 28 and unranked.

Ahri InariNov 16, 20181 votes

That's funny because as a high diamond player I play vs player below level 30, which I do not desire nether. Normal MMR shouldn't be independant of rank, at least at a certain extend.

Need Gold 4 TentNov 16, 20181 votes

I had challenger and master players multiple times already. I thought it was because I play at odd hours which is why matchmaking was desparate to put any 10 people together.

Silly NeekoNov 16, 20181 votes

The reason for this is your normal MMR. A plat-challenger normal MMR is usually quite low, despite their ranking being high. This is because they do not do normals. Usually around unranked/bronze/silver/pre30 levels.

So you will be placed with them until they play enough to get higher mmr or ranked comes back and they start doing that again.

Anus McCreamholeNov 16, 20181 votes

Thanks for the feedback all, Still looking for a justifiable reason that I'm playing against the top 10% as the bottom 10%.

Modl Ryden lNov 16, 20181 votes

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Thanks for the feedback all, Still looking for a justifiable reason that I'm playing against the top 10% as the bottom 10%.

I sit here and have to ask, if you're new (which I am going to assume you are new to the game, after all you stated multiple times that you are lvel 27/level 28 so you must be new to the game, obviously) then why should any of that matter? Just play a new game. So what? You got matched against the top 10% in ONE MATCH. That's nothing special. The reason why this happens? Who really knows, it's a normals game. It's done and over with so move onto the next match. If you start seeing patterns where you are being paired against the Diamonds and higher, write them down, screenshot your experiences, and submit it to Riot.

But as it is right now, this is all hard to believe since there's no proof and I am not going to take the time out of my day to sift through your match history.

And to reiterate, none of this should matter if you're new to the game. Just play a new match, get better, have fun. As for analyzing why you lost, knowing the ranks of the other players should have little to do with how you performed.

Anus McCreamholeNov 16, 20181 votes

Thanks for the feedback, I'll continue to play and learn from the losses.