The amount of boosted players in Platinum elo is too high

Mister Support··15 votes·3,877 views

(Yes, this is a repost from last night. First post was taken down because I stupidly gave enough information for player shaming to happen, which is my fault.)

I'm a support main who plays solo in the platinum elo, and in the last few weeks I've gone from steadily being around Plat 2 and Plat 1 to Plat 5. Out of my last 40 games, I've only won 13. Even though for all of Season 5 and start of Season 6 I've been consistently at Plat 1 to Plat 2. And the worst part is, I honestly feel as though a majority of my losses were well out of control simply because of the skill difference in my teammates compared to the enemy. Although there isn't any footage, going by KDA, ward amount, and damage dealt, you can look through my match history at the losses and see that I'll be playing well despite the team being behind for a majority of matches, but as a support I just simply can't do anything if the teammates are bad enough. And that's true even if I were to play another role as well. Meanwhile, there will be allies and enemies both who will have incredibly low CS despite being in platinum, where people SHOULD be having around 7-8 cs a minute, but instead you'll see about 5 cs a minute being the average in plenty of these games. Or, many allies simply don't know how to pick into or against certain compositions and will instead stubbornly pick a very specific champion because they think the champion is OP but putting the whole team at a inherent disadvantage. The last thing I saw a lot, which used to not be an issue in platinum elo, is people simply don't know how to stay alive in lane. One or two deaths in lane is fine, those are excusable. But normally people would sit under tower and back off when threatened to avoid further deaths, or roam to try and help the team elsewhere. Instead, you'll see players try to consistently 1v1 their fed laner and just keep dying, an issue I last saw in high silver/low gold elo back in season 4.

In all honesty, it feels like there are just way too many people in the mid to high elos who simply don't belong. And these players make the matches hard to enjoy, since they will feed and become a bit of a burden on the team. I'm not sure if I'm just truly that unlucky, or if it's how matchmaking is for solo supports (since most of the other supports will be in premades of varying sizes) or what, but there has to be something done about the allowance of these players to ruin games in such high numbers. I do have one proposal. Why not restrict the difference in rankings allowed for people to group together in premades? As of right now the easiest way to boost someone is to get on a smurf or a higher elo account and get in a group with low elo friends to bring them up in elo elsewhere, but if we restrict the rank difference like it is in Diamond+, wouldn't this help out a lot of people? It would also make matchmaking overall easier since there wouldn't be groups of such varying MMR that it's necessary to match them with a varied team as well.

11 Comments

YouBelong2Disney2 votes

no that's just how the game is in general for solo queue players if youre platinum 5 you get placed with a 4 man of gold 5s and silver 1s because they vs harder people and then you get a bunch of feeding idiots on your team vs a bunch of people that actually somewhat know what they're doing this is just dynamic queue in a nutshell and yes there are like 140218108189 boosted people in platinum thanks to also dynamic queue. Fyi there's probably like 3+ boosted players in every single platinum game so you're not wrong about that either.

Surr20plz2 votes

Boosted Animals

awdaf1 votes

mmmm HA HA, I told you, I figured it out, its what Riot wanted

They want us to play Dynamic Q, big conspiracy theory

Cherysse1 votes

DYNAMIC QUEQUE, it says it all dude

Dreadlocks1 votes

I have a similar issue in plat, except Ill be in games that are close and more often than not games where we could easily win but 1 or 2 players just get nonstoped picked off till we eventually can't hold 3v5 or 4v5 anymore. It's very frustrating that players at this mmr can position so poorly ..

TNHA Baritone1 votes

No offense, I'm all for Solo/Duo queue's return, but it would have been the same if DQ never existed.

Mister Support1 votes

Never said this was DQ's fault. I think DQ added to the problem, but isn't the core of the reason. Yet I'm not sure if the core reason can even be fixed without ruining something else :/

TNHA Baritone1 votes

U RITE AF

Shieldbro1 votes

I'm a sup main p4 on the way to p3 and I probably wouldn't get there without my duo adc and would be stuck in g1. He is not carrying me, in fact I carry him, he is okay adc but that is way better than the randoms I get in solo q.

I Go Pew Pew Pew1 votes

I think most people are saying that it's easier to boost a player with dynamicQ.

Celeste Benal1 votes

Sounds like bronze.

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