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I'm Silver 1 in solo, Silver 5 in flex, Bronze 1 in flex 3v3. Why am I facing plat-diamond players?

hov·10/19/2018, 12:16:24 AM·1 votes·1,067 views

It's always frustrating to face a player who is clearly better than you and you lose your lane/match because of it, and obviously that's gonna happen no matter what elo you're in, but why am I facing players who are 2-3 divisions above me in most of my normal games?

I'm sure most people can relate to this. Sometimes there happens to be a player who are a division or two above you and are clearly more skilled than you, but when it happens to me almost every single normal game, it gets super frustrating and it ruins my experience completely. I'm more of a casual player than a ranked player, I play to have fun and play the champs I enjoy playing, but this season, especially after the summer, I've just not had fun playing LoL because I face plats and diamond players.

Now I know there is a thing called MMR which is supposed to balance out the matchmaking system so that bronze-silver players don't play with master-challenger players etc., but if I, as a Silver 1 player has approximately the same MMR as a Plat-Diamond player, isn't it something wrong?

I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation to this, I'm just curious, and mostly frustrated..

[sg-zephyr]

1 Comments

HeyItzSteve10/19/2018, 12:57:06 AM2 votes

In Normal Games, the system that manages who you will face is much more lenient than in Ranked. Doing some research revealed that Normal Game match-ups are mostly based on winrate rather than your current rank. There can also be premades that contain a wide range of players with different ranks.

In Solo/Duo Ranked, you should almost never face any player that is a rank that is much higher than yours. An exception to this rule is duo queued players, but it is also very limited.

In Flex Queues, you can face higher ranked players. This is partly because their Flex Queue rank is much lower than their Solo/Duo Ranked. I believe that the system does try to correct this by taking the Solo/Duo rank into account, but it is not perfect and some high ELO players do seep through into games.