These fucking placement games

Nami in Bush·Nov 12, 2016·2 votes·1,175 views

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Why the FUCK am I with Golds and Silvers vs Plats?????

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"I can only play Blitz and Nasus banned him" -Zil So he doesnt buy a sightstone or support item, he takes corrupting potion instead.
the "I'm a fucktard nasus who bans other people's champs on purpose and gets muted at start of game"
the "I'm hot shit because I'm plat 5 syndra"
and lastly the "Jayce jungle is shit I'll kill him" feeding afk-farming first-time rengar with a 33% win rate as rengar.

And then there's me, pushed to turret the entire game in a 5v1 bot lane as an immobile ADC

6 Comments

WolfeiteNov 12, 20161 votes

Maybe because of how they've been doing in placements thus far?

Nami in BushNov 12, 20161 votes

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Maybe because of how they've been doing in placements thus far?

I'm Diamond, they're Silver, why am I even fucking looking at them?

PacothegintNov 12, 20161 votes

This is flex right? If so then there is a difference between solo/duo and flex queues as such no one had MMR in flex just like in ranked 5s where in solo/duo you may be challenger but in a ranked 5s team you may have a bronze rating.

Nami in BushNov 12, 20161 votes

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This is flex right? If so then there is a difference between solo/duo and flex queues as such no one had MMR in flex just like in ranked 5s where in solo/duo you may be challenger but in a ranked 5s team you may have a bronze rating.

It'd be really stupid if they didnt carry over MMR from Dynamic Queue into Flex Queue

MagicFlyingLlamaNov 12, 20161 votes

Because people are not matched based on rank, they are matched based on how they perform in games.

A new player starts out roughly equal to a high silver player, plus/minus a little based on performance.

jaymc1130Nov 12, 20161 votes

Riot changed the algorithm up a little bit mate. The preseason reset is tuned a bit lower than is typical. If you want to see something really strange happen play on a second diamond smurfing and track the matchmaking as you progress through placements. I did em on a d3 account, went 9-1, placed it in plat 1, so that part worked out pretty normal. What was strange was the matchmaking. Each game I progressed in placements saw the collective mmrs of both teams drop. No joke, I was losing mmr every game I won, that account start s at 2280 and instead of being rest to about 1700 to start it started at 2280 and seemed to decrease based on wins or losses. I'm dead serious here, my first game was all diamonds, second all diamonds, third one diamond on each team and 8 plats. Every game after was all plats until the last one which featured a gold player. The collective mmr of the teams dropped each match instead of increasing. It was really odd.

I'm repeating these tests on other accounts to collect more data. I'll let you know what I uncover as I compile information.