Title.
Was playing a flex with my friends, we were 3, we're around low diamond/very high plat elo AND MMR and I was in promo to d4. But I was matched with a gold 2 (flex rank) Draven who ended the game 0 9 3.
Can someone explain this bullshit? Seriously, a league and three divisions lower than me? What the fuck?
KVbqbFsC8e25 votes[{quoted}](name=Fisher No Chains,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=fgisghpE,comment-id=,timestamp=2017-12-04T20:56:53.106+0000)
Was playing a flex
Fisher No Chains6 votesSo? I'm talking about flex ranks.
I was in promo to flex d4, he was flex gold 2.
Isn't there a limit of 1 league to play with people? Like, I can't invite gold 2 players at all to play with me.
notice me Sin pi10 votesif it happens to silvers: git gud
Succubús GF4 votesTHIS
Owyn10 votesWhy am I matched with a Gold 2 in my Diamond 4 promo?
Same reason I was matched with plats+ in my Silver I to gold 5 promos in soloQ... [sg-janna]
Starcraft243ver9 votesMaybe because this is his history match:
https://i.imgur.com/8jtGbUU.png
So he's nowhere near gold 2, if he can pull up winning streak like this, thus the system correctly detected him as a smurf who should play against and with his category of players.
Faceroll Tactics4 votesIt's been so many seasons and people still don't understand that ranks are only there for bragging rights and only mmr reflects true skill gg.
zarxus12348 votesbecause match making wanted you to lose.
Sukishoo3 votesIt's flex. People can be all kinds of ranks in there vs their solo.
Fisher No Chains5 votesFlex is not team ranked, Flex is flex.
If I'm diamond 4 I can't play with gold people, period. If I try to invite someone below P4 as a D4 it just says that he's too low to play with me.
So, why should this kind of stuff happen if Riot doesn't allow mixed elo parties at all?
Sukishoo11 votesYes, however, the system still finds the closest matches it can, if there is no one else Dia MMR on for flex it will just go down the line.
I was Bronze 1 on a smurf in flex and was facing people that were Gold 3 in flex (not their solo ranking). So it finds it based on the MMR as it always does but Flex is appearing to be much wider than Solo.
In the case of this guy, since he was probably duo with a plat it raised his MMR even more so that is why the system placed them with you.
Imperial Japan2 votesIt's flex.
Ramen2262 votes"Something something something matchmaking isn't broken something something 50% chance to win something"
PePsiLemoNN2 votesflex
Faceroll Tactics2 votesRanks don't matter when matchmaking, they're badges
What matters is your mmr, so either you're as good as a gold player or he is as good as a diamond player, or maybe you're good as a plat player and so is he, etc.
Iffy Jarl1 votesWas he duo? And if so what was his partners rank
Fisher No Chains4 votesHe was duo with a P5 dude.
VS way higher people anyway. There was not a single enemy who was below P5 iirc.
420 grams1 votesLeagues match making always does stuff like that
The Deckowner1 votesA stupid mid X rank player decided to duo with their high X-1 rank friend and end up getting placed in a X+1 level game that they will eventually ruin. It's not uncommon.
