Why do I get placed against plats in teambuilder?

femmé··1 votes·573 views

Can riot do something about this please. I wanted to play some teambuilder before i hopped onto ranked and I noticed 2 members on my team where plat last year (I'm silver btw) so i went onto op.gg and found out I was playing with two golds, a plat player this year and a plat player last year. I looked at the enemy team and I realized i was going against a plat vayne that was diamond last season... How is this fair, i'm clearly out matched. (i was adc on my main) Listen before you start explaining how teambuilder works i know that it will match me with people more familiar with their champ so i don't play against a first time varus or something and wreck them but getting matched with a plat 3 vayne? who was diamond last year? how is that fair? I know teambuilder is trying to bring a challenge with some one with knowledge of their champ "equal" to my knowledge but this is a little much, to be fair though her team were silvers. It's not like this is a one time thing either, I've been seeing more and more plat players in my games but only when I go into teambuilder. I don't care if i'm good with the champion, i'm not as good as these people at the game itself.

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injourn3 votes

You should use this as a learning experience, try to learn from what they are doing and how it's different from what you're doing. Then improve instead of just making excuses.

femmé1 votes

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You should use this as a learning experience, try to learn from what they are doing and how it's different from what you're doing. Then improve instead of just making excuses.

i'm not...I just want to know why i'm in that game in the first place. What because i play a champion a lot I get put with people who just have a basic expectation of what I can do that is above my capabilities in game? I do watch a lot of challenger streams so I know things that this vayne and my teammates were doing but I rarely see them in other games and I'm not a smart enough of a player to know when I should uses these techniques. (plus mechanics) I wouldn't be confused if this game was a one time thing but teambuilder puts me in these games the past three times until my winrate drops i guess.

injourn1 votes

Maybe the matchmaking system thinks you're good enough!!

T RexHasTinyArms1 votes

If you were duo with someone that may impact it, but that doesn't sound like the case. Most likely people were waiting really long and so it increased the range it would place people with. Also people have different normal mmr vs ranked mmr so they may play ranked and have normal mmr from before they improved during ranked for the ones who weren't higher elo last season. My normal mmr is somewhere in mid low bronze bc I don't play normals, and I'm up for gold promos for the second time so my skill has clearly gone up.

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