Does anyone find this season randomly REALLY hard to climb in?

Krytoric·9/12/2018, 5:57:20 PM·2 votes·482 views

This season i was placed Gold 4 and i want to end at least plat. Last season i made it up to Diamond promos, lost and tilted down to Plat 3 (my fault) Season before that made it to Plat 4 with little effort getting to plat.

This season i went from gold 4 to gold 1 promos to plat in like 50 games and a 53% winrate. But now im gold 2 (30 LP) with a 49% win rate.

Before people say "you're just tilted" im not, im just confused. Im not mad, losing is a part of the game. But i had amazing team mates (coordinating plays, changing picks to play well with who we had and vs what the enemy had, good wards, lots of helpful communication, nice and funny people) And now i swear to god ive reported probably 80% of my team mates in the last 25 games. All insanely toxic (racism, death threats, AFK, genuinely inting - literally saying "im inting" then doing so til we lose and trolls) And of course i make mistakes in my games, im not challenger for a reason and i dont wanna sound full of myself, but im better than the people im playing against. I win lane every time and come out of lane inbetween 2/0 and 4/0, i do well in the mid game, usually most CS, most damage, most objective damage, but there's always SOMEONE who's insanely negative or doing some form of toxic behavior and we just lose.

And i have been the reason i lost a game or 2, but seriously the games ive been getting are such low quality. I have literally 0 say in what happens in the game, whatever i do it doesn't matter.

Bonus meme, yesterday i was in a ranked game and we took their mid inhib, both nexus towers were down and we were winning every fight. My jungler got picked and the other team got baron, they pushed for the first time all game and took 2 towers, my team FF'd almost immediately after. Thank you elo gods.

1 Comments

Bademeister9/12/2018, 6:04:06 PM1 votes

It's the same problem that everybody sees (except the Riot fanboys), but that is never addressed and always explained away by "its snowbally" or "there is a hidden MMR" - matchmaking is not working correctly. The algorithm is completely bogus right now, and it is much worse than it was in the past. I believe it was broken sometime in the past, but nobody looks at it, because Riot does not take the concerns seriously and says, just as you suspect, "there is just tilted players complaining".

If they could finally expose the algorithm and all the "hidden" mechanics (if there even ARE any, other than just random team selection), we could verify. They don't, and I am certain they know exactly WHY they are not disclosing it.