imo the MMR system is a bad way to solely base matching on in ranked
and i know im not the only one that thinks this, i think its pretty common knowledge that matchmaking forces you toward a 50% winrate but not in a healthy way, not by giving you inters or afkers like most people seem to blame it on, they just generally give you less experienced teams when your on a win streak on top of vsing people ranks above you, trying to force you into uncarryable games. my main issue is uneven teams, idc if the team mmrs are similar why does it make sense to put a me with OR against people higher up than me? how does that determine my actual rank? the way i see it is if im winning against people im even with in rank that means im climbing to my actual rank as i should, instead of giving me worse players and the enemy better players rankwise give me a bigger lp gain so i climb out faster i dont understand whats hard about that, dont slow my winrate artificially just allow me even matches at my rank going up until i hit the rank i deserve and i can assure you my winrate will drop naturally when im actually even with or cant keep up with the players im vsing and matched with. my next issue has ALWAYS been promos, riot has even stated themselves that they put you at a disadvantage to see if you "deserve" the rank your going to, in what world does putting someone with worse players and against better players prove anything? all it does is hold people back when they dont deserve to be hell i lost my silver 3 promos 3 times due to unranked players that just started ranked feeding someone more experienced and better than them, thats not fair to me OR to them or even the enemy team. anyway im ranting, my point is ranked should be RANK centered not based on a number they wont even let us see. now you might make the argument of smurfs abusing this to stay in a low rank and shit on those players, problem is they already do that and the current system is easily worked around by them by simply draining kills from the team then doing nothing with them to throw and stay low so it wouldnt open the door for anything that doesnt already happen
TL/DR ranked matchmaking should be completely rank based to promote more fair climbing and artificial roadblocks in the system that can force you to take much longer than you should to get the rank you belong in. this post isnt a QQ post, im not hardstuck, i dont think my teams hold me back every game and this is all just my opinion