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There needs to be a way to properly set MMR for low level accounts

Aeril·4/25/2016, 1:04:08 PM·3 votes·725 views

Recently, I've been introducing a dear friend of mine to LoL. She's new to both League and mobas in general, and generally isn't a huge video game player. I've been playing with her in bots and recently PvP on a fresh account, specifically picking supports and avoiding playmaking champions to avoid carrying her games and unbalancing her MMR.

That being said, it feels almost like a wasted gesture. One massive and glaring flaw has come up when we try to play together: there are SO MANY smurfs! It's a massive issue for her when she attempts to simply learn how to move while autoattacking or how to use her skills, and the enemy laner simply walks up and decimates her with blatant level 30 skills. She's actually depressed enough that she doesn't even want to try playing since she feels she never gets to play against people of her own skill level.

We've been losing games, even against beginner bots, and yet every time we get into a PvP setting it feels like I'm playing against people on my silver main account. And this is with us being level 10.

Riot, please, I beg you. Find a way to fix this for your new players. The people who aren't familiar with mobas, who don't know what they're doing but are trying to learn, are getting unbelievably frustrated because everyone they play with and against who is meant to be near their skill level simply crushes them for half an hour.

4 Comments

Fovere4/27/2016, 1:42:56 PM2 votes

The thing is that MMR isn't going to correlate with player experience.

Lower MMR will just throw you guys in with bad players, not inexperienced ones.

You should use custom games to allow your friend to get a feel for things. There may not be ip gains (or even experience?), but there's no pressure either. The free rotation + the 450 ip champs should be enough to learn different roles and basic mechanics until she is ready to bot with other players.

My partner likes to play League sometimes but she has no interest in learning the game. We are talking trackpad on a laptop here. Learned to keep her out of matched games real quick.

Zackattack4/25/2016, 1:50:39 PM1 votes

Isn't what you're asking for a tad hypocritical? You want her MMR to be proportional to her skill level, yet you want to play with her at the same time? How is that possible. Yes there are a lot of smurfs out there, but there are also a lot of non smurfs. If she plays enough games and loses enough games, her MMR will drop to the level with everyone else who isn't a smurf. But if you play with her and win, MMR goes up. win 50% of your games, it stays the same. She needs to lose like 20+ in a row. I have first hand experience with this, I had multiple friends started playing. If she can toughen it out, she'll be better off in the end from playing against better players. Stick with bots until she can beat them easily.