So I'm a high silver player who is trying to learn leblanc mid, and what do you know, me and my fellow silvers (as well as an unranked and low gold) get matched with 2 high diamonds. Riot why do you pretend your matchmaking system works when shit like this happens?
The matchmaking is working just fine, it's just that you don't know why it's doing that.
Normal and Ranked MMR is separate. This means that you can be Challenger 1, but if you never do Normals you're going to have a really low MMR when you do. Most people that do a lot of Ranked don't do a lot of Normals, so there may be a large gap in the MMR between them.
Now that you know the MMR is separate, do you have a proposal to improve this?
recently, I've been having the same problem where my team has no ranking and under level 30 and i get match with 4 high level players with diamond, platinum. gold, silver . and weirdly one very low level player that's like lvl 10-15. not only does this mean they have statistical advantage (with completed mastery's and runes), but it also means they are obviously more experienced. so this bull crap to me. the MMR is not working properly and this system makes me suffer when i'm playing and one guy feeds the one diamond player... and quoting _ glitchMS_ : <<just getting stomped by people who are way out of your level>> and <<with how riot is about afking you shouldnt get locked into a 20min-1hr game>> is not fun whatsoever [zombie-brand-facepalm]
Maybe the Diamonds are Duo Qing with someone in Silver? Maybe some other players on your team have a much higher Normal MMR than Ranked?
There are a lot of legitimate explanations for this. Don't get mad a Riot and just try to learn something so maybe you can play better. It is also important to remember that good teamwork will always trump a single good player; just because that Diamond player may know what to do, doesn't mean his team of Silvers does or will listen to him.
