In my last 10 Gold games, I have seen 5 last season D4 players with negative winrates.

Paintman420·2/7/2020, 11:03:18 PM·2 votes·959 views

I finished plat 3 last season, how am I playing with D4 players in GOLD? Is this "early season matchmaking?" where games are pulled together quick, lacking quality, because there aren't enough people playing yet?

In order from most recent they are games 1, 3, 7, and 8 (has 2). https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Leyers+of+fa%C3%A7ade https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Ayleus https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=SKT+Blak%C3%A9r https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=WW+Ate+My+HW https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Sp4zEffect

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Love Anastasia2/7/2020, 11:18:16 PM2 votes

And you will see many more. Some are washed up but the vast majority will be ppl boosted by early season elo of S9.

Last season Riot totally fucked up rankeds by giving free elo at the begin of the season, it was normal to see a lot of people being Plat 5 for 3 years and then climb to Diamond this one (Or even Silver/Gold). It affected Master/Challenger too, you could see D5 people playing in grandmaster just by spamming games at early season, but Riot fixed it for them

Now, many of them are just falling to their real elo, which never was Diamond (It was terrible to play, literally seeing people with skill of Low Gold in Diamond). That's in part why you see many threads now complaining because it's truly difficult to climb. It's just the normal difficulty, not the free elo madness it was last season.

But well, in this boards people laughed at me for calling them "Moved plats" xD