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Ranked spread is too high

A i Bot 0·4/19/2019, 5:18:19 PM·6 votes·4,923 views

I remember ranking back in the day and you were matched with people who were in your division. Like gold 3 to gold 2 should be middle ground. Most people ranking are probably in this spot; Yet I'm in my promos for gold 2 and Matchmaking is finding players all the way in silver 3 and silver 2. When I was in silver, I was never given Gold 4 and gold 3 players, let alone Gold 2. So in short I don't see how you expect silver 2 players to find success vs'ing gold 2 players. You're actually as a matchmaking system asking people to carry low elo players.

This affects all gameplay and experience. I'd rather get demoted and have games with people where Silver 2 people shouldn't have to deal with everyone's orders if they so choose to respond, when being told to by a gold 3 or gold 2.(this is best case)…

Worst case they feel like crap because they don't know what to do and are wondering why they have to face this huge incline of skill when they aren't ready for it. I don't like to constantly bark orders at someone to hopefully win, when they haven't learned why these are there to begin with!

35 Comments

z63XnLCMwX4/19/2019, 5:29:52 PM4 votes

Silver 2? I'm lucky if I get that. I'm sitting at a solid gold 4 but I'm getting put with silver 3-4 team mates while the enemy team is gold 3+. Wtf matchmaking. And my silver teammates aren't smurfs, they're literally garbage.

Kachykvar4/19/2019, 5:37:30 PM4 votes

I'm Gold 3, and I've gotten unranked players in my game, so basically Riot really doesn't care about the ranking system, they just made the code simplified enough to use the vast pool of users versus creating code that would narrow down the ranking system.

Shíníng Díamond4/19/2019, 5:28:11 PM2 votes

I see a lot of this in my own games. Gold players in my silver games. It usually doesn't mean much, just that they're queued with someone in silver. It's honestly not that much of a difference if you ask me though. I've seen some gold players int the hell out of a solo lane.

Kai Guy4/19/2019, 6:27:19 PM1 votes

To an extent as LP gains are lower then MMR gains your going to see divisional gaps into your games, and a high uncertainty accounts Tier will commonly be inaccurate to their skill.

Op is correct that Good MMR MM requires a good Range. Make matches to fast by increasing the range is problematic.

Duoing destroys this range and is why I have been telling people that MMR systems are good and function but Riots has some problem areas, like how duo is off tiers not hidden MMR. I don't think its unreasonable to ask for that restriction to be in place and to be off the same range MM considers Fair. As previously mentioned Tiers move slower so bottom of S4 can have Bronze MMR then que with a gold player with Plat and MM has to compensate for this massive range somehow. Not ideal.

Then there was the new starting MMR + new Tiers which realistically is going to sink the entire ladders Values to be lower.

mack91124/20/2019, 1:57:47 PM1 votes

I mean in your 3 ranked games from your last 20 matches the silvers players in those matches played pretty well indicating there mmr is simply enough to play with golds ...