@Riot Is it possible to get D-? AFK Master Yi connected back for merely 2 minutes and got B-. Weird.

Velzard of Koz··1 votes·593 views

I just had ARAM game where our Master Yi was afk nearly whole game. Didn't come early, it disconnected him and reconnected just for the last teamfight where he basically did nothing as it was nearly won. His stats ended up like: KDA 0/0/0 2 Minions 8.6k gold (by natural generating most of the time) 0 physical damage dealt to champs 0 magic damage dealt to champs 2597 physical damage dealt (to the minions I suppose.. like... okay... 'twas his Q) 208 magic damage dealt 444 critical strike maximum 686 damage taken Built Statik, Blade of the Ruined King and AS boots like ordinary carry

According to what he said in his joke-chain "izi :/" "why only b-? lel"

Since he even jested how easy was the game, despite the fact he didn't even play it, If he meant to make a joke about Mastery Grade he'd say something like "only A+? I played quite well... I deserve hextech chest" or even S grade. This way it makes me believe he actually got it. However, I don't have data to proove it.

So basically someone who didn't even play the game, just finished the nexus (If he even tried to hit it) got B-. I mean it's pretty terrible grade. But taken he didn't even play. Like... Do I need to kill my own minions and have -60 farm to get D-?

Additionally, it's funny because I as carry dealt the most damage from entire game at over 29.5k as Ezreal and had 11/10/14 KDA (which isn't really that great but for squishy buster in 5v4...), 11.8k gold contribution and got the same grade. Not that I'd be complaining, I just noticed that later for comparsion.

Note also that this was ARAM which should be having different Mastery Grading system since we waited for that thing for so long when other modes already had one.

Is it really working as intended? And you have to basically... I don't even know. Do damage to your own teammates? Make trolling as Tahm or Bard and CC your own team? Have negative farm? In order to get D-? Is it that it's impossible to get D- so that terrible players who just began playing don't get sshamed that they were worst and have the placebo feeling that someone was even worse and they are improving?

I just would like to know more.

4 Comments

Trump2016MAGA122 votes

Try going 0/50

Velzard of Koz1 votes

I am not sure If my teammates would appreaciate my experiements :D But yeah now that i think of it it makes sense.

Mysticman892 votes

All grades are based on your percentile performance compared to all other players on the same champ in the same role (although role is murky in ARAM).

That means the top 2% of players in a specific champ/role combo get an S+ (the 2% number was riot confirmed somewhere), and I expect the bottom end is a similar cutoff, so the bottom 2% might get D-'s (although this is just an educated guess on the cutoff). Since it's based on relative performance, not absolute performance, it can mean to get the worst possible grades, you have to do as bad (or worse) as the intentional feeders and similar. Simply doing nothing at all and ending up 0/0/0 with 0 cs and so on is better than 0/30/0 with 0 cs and so on, and so ones 'starting' grade on pretty much every champion is in the ballpark of a C.

Velzard of Koz1 votes

Thanks. It makes sense now. Donpt nkow why I didn't think of people who feed in massive extend. Still I think the startin line should averagely be somewhere near C rather than actual middle.

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