Riot, Why are you Punishing me for Winning games?

LunarStrike·Jun 22, 2017·2 votes·238 views

Has Anyone Ever experienced this? You go on a 10 player win streak, and then riot purposely match you with inexperienced players, to try and average out your winrate. I've seen people talk about this over and over, and I'm pretty sure riot confirmed it somewhere. It's really depressing actually. It's apart of the reason why Matchmaking is really broken.

I mean, think about how horrible matchmaking has been this season anyway, disregarding this issue. Too often we see D2's wth D5's, G1's with G4's, and so on. If you really want to balance this game out, giving people fair matchmade teams would be a great start imo...

4 Comments

Timethief49Jun 22, 20172 votes

"I´m pretty sure riot confirmed it somwhere" Im pretty sure they didnt. The thing is you only realize there are bad players if they are on your team. When they are on the enemy team you think you are damn good. Do you really think riot takes manpower to make bad matches for players or create a system for that?

King of DemonsJun 22, 20171 votes

It's always interesting to me that people can say and use words like "purposefully" in this context like they have anything to gain from it

No, that's probably just your "luck". Winning 10 games in a row, while statistically obviously not impossible, isn't an everyday occurence. Obviously it will come to a halt. Maybe you'll even lose 10 in a row.

And to be honest there are several problems why matchmaking are this way. This system is pretty good though.

The biggest problem is people claming that as a G1 you shouldn't play with a G4 or that Plat 5 shouldn't play with mid-golds. What the hell makes you say that? There's not a whole lot of difference in skill there.

The higher tiers have the problem of less players. So yeah, sometimes it has to match you with D5s when you're D3, despite there actually being a rather large skill gab that USUALLY they don't have to play with each other. But playerbase up there is small and while that may be annoying people generally know that it's normal.

ThePikolJun 22, 20171 votes

So it's just "luck"? It's quite big coincidence that I win 6 in row, then lose 8 in row for the 5th time

RainfallJun 22, 20171 votes

You dont need a 100% winrate to be challenger. Riot is just forcing you to play more games to rank up. If i am diamond and i create an account when i reach level 30 i can purposely lose my 10 provisionals and get bronze V i cant just win my way back to diamond with 100% thats why mmr exist. to not let me shit on people for 100 games.