Does anyone go on massive win streaks, then massive loss streaks?

Naalith··15 votes·2,680 views

I have like 7000 normal games under my belt so I figured that would be enough time for the system to somewhat accurately track my skill and the game quality to reflect that. Yes, I'm a flex player with 48 level 7 champions so I also get that I'm not always playing my absolute best role and best champion, but this is just ridiculous. It goes from me winning like 80% of my games no matter what role I play and playing new champs I play only dings my winrate a little bit. After absolutely smashing for long enough, I start going down the opposite route where I just lose like 80% of games and get super pissed. Now I get it, win streaks and loss streaks happen and shift your MMR a bit the longer they go on for, but I feel like I'm being moved between playing soccer with my 5 year old cousins to playing against a pro Brazilian team every 10 games or so. My friends and I even joke all the time saying "we better not play League tonight, we shit on a bunch of people last night and you know what happens next."

I love this game don't get me wrong and I think preseason is pretty exciting this year even though it's a huge meme balancing wise, but I'm honestly starting to get sick of knowing the outcome of so many of my games before it happens just based on what type of streak I'm on. It's like I'm playing an MMO and I have to grind to get back to the fun part of playing League, like I'm doing my time for 8-10 games of just getting rekt, only League isn't an MMO and every game is supposedly a fresh start where anything can happen.

10 Comments

Baron Barian5 votes

I get paranoid everytime I get those winning streaks.

Mikasa A Sona4 votes

Yes, and often. I will go along winning at 50% then I will win up to 20 games in a row or lose 10 in a row. It seems the loss streaks are limited and then the l system limits it to win 2, lose 3 to bring me back down. When streaks occur, they are incredibly one sided. Also it seems to take matchmaking about 12 hours to adjust to a win or loss streak, and because it is matchmaking in such a one sided fashion it is easy to tell when it happens.

RedCyclone3 votes

The matchmaking algorithm is addiction based

How many times have you lost a streak of games only to queue up again wanting that goddamn elo back?

deadlychuck2 votes

I think this is probably due to the MMR matching algorithm and how they search for opponent/teammates and equalize those teams.

I think that they build teams together and then search for teams which are on average even, rather than looking constructing both teams together. Which means that you're even though the teams are "balanced" one is always going to be more reliant on the above average player carrying the game than the other.

Mojihito6662 votes

Yep after lose streak i can win games being drunk

fk this game and it fixed matchmaking

ldsjm42 votes

Nah, I just go on one massive losing streaks and an occasional pity win

Daddy Ants2 votes

Yeah I've had times where I've gone on 10+ win streaks then gone on 15-20 loss streaks.

Matchmaking in this game is rigged af.

Rootlo2 votes

Sometimes ill play a new champ or champ i havent played in a while and then pop off for 10-15 games straight and then suddenly just lose the next 20 in a row and i have no clue why. I dont do things super differently between games, it just happens

Nea1042 votes

It works exactly this way, in order to force a 50% win ratio as most as possible. I hope they will finally admit it, or maybe fix it and give us a proper matchmaking :P

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