Why are my ranked games lately almost all games where my team is significantly lower rated?

AhhShucks·12/12/2018, 2:21:24 AM·6 votes·5,683 views

I've been dropping pretty hard in ranked the last few days, it happens sometimes. I didn't think much of it at first.

I finally went and looked through my match history though and I've been getting a HUGE margin of games where my team is at a significant disadvantage in team rank from the opposing team.

My last several games

  1. My team - G4, S2, G4, G4, S2 Enemy team - P4, G4, G3, G3, G3

  2. My team - G4, S1, S1, S1, G4 Enemy Team - G4, G4, G4, S2, G4

  3. Actually even teams,

  4. My Team - G3, G2, G4, G2, G4 Enemy Team - G4, P4, P4, P4, P4

  5. My Team - G3, G2, G3, P4, G3 Enemy Team - G4, P4, G4, P4, G3

  6. My Team - G3, G3, G3, S2, G4 Enemy Team - G4, G3, P4, P4, G3

And so on.

Why am I getting so many games where the ranks are hard skewed in the enemy favor? Of course I'm going to be dropping rating like mad when my whole team is outclassed in every game.

6 Comments

MrFawknSunshine12/12/2018, 2:24:53 AM2 votes

looks like my games of late. minus the diamond players that im placed against.

haaaaaaalp12/12/2018, 3:01:48 AM1 votes

The new reset made a larger gap between lp/rank and mmr so the ranks you see don't represent player skill as accurately.

ll3lackbeard12/12/2018, 3:16:34 PM1 votes

New reset is straight garbage. Starting to see many posts about this. Hopefully fixed by start of new season. I got a provisional rank of iron4 and get matched against plats/dia. I posted my game report yesterday on the boards. To Riot this is fair and balanced.

WeaselRune12/14/2018, 10:21:19 AM1 votes

You should be less concerned with rank, and more concerned with win% in most cases.

Someone lower rank than you, but with a 55+% win rate is climbing, and has an MMR higher than their rank, and should be matched with you.

Someone with a rank equel to yours, and a 46% or < win rate is losing bad because they bought an account, got boosted, or are raging every game and dragging others down with them. People climbing with high win rates, can be matched with people falling with the same MMR. One is clearly better than the other, but the "rank" is currently the same.

The new system, will also make ranks appear wonky for a while.