Is support grading bugged right now?

Ændril·7/25/2017, 4:33:56 PM·1 votes·300 views

i know grading has always weighed kills heavier than assists, but it feels worse than usual. Here's a couple examples

solo ranked game as zyra at plat 4 went 4/4/15 (28-27 kill score) in a 43 minute loss with a vision score of 103 (59 wards placed, 13 destroyed, 11 pinks bought), 36k dmg and got an A-

solo ranked game as zyra at plat 3 went 2/3/13 (24-10 kill score) in a 29 minute win with a vision score of 64 (29 wards placed, 5 destoryed, 4 pinks bought), 15k dmg and got an A

Is it just because my kill participation is low because I can't think of any other reason that it wouldn't give me an A+ or S- for those games. I'm not trying to argue that they are S or S+ games just that it's a little low.

PS: not sure if this should go under gameplay or bug reports, put it under gameplay because i'm not sure if it is a bug or intended behavior

3 Comments

Pie Cubed7/25/2017, 4:37:54 PM1 votes

Probably kill participation and perhaps your damage done. The system compares you to other Zyra support players in your elo, so maybe the best ones do a lot more stuff than you?

BubblyRainbows7/25/2017, 4:42:01 PM1 votes

As I understand it, the grades are determined based on a curve of what everyone else playing the same champ in the same mode is getting. So it's not necessarily that the grading is somehow broken, it's that players are doing significantly better with Zyra support right now, so you're not scoring far enough above the average scores.

That's how it was explained to me how it works. If the average player of Zyra support goes 3/3/10 with vision score 50 (this is a very simplified example, it takes more into account) Then going 4/2/13 with vision score 60 isn't significantly higher than the average, and you'll end up with a lower grade. But if you go 0/1/59 with vision score 140 when the average is what I said above, you can expect an S+.

AlienPrimate7/25/2017, 4:42:37 PM1 votes

I find it to be kind of easy to get S grades on support. 10/21 of my last Taric games are S's. If I compare that to the rate at which I get S's on other roles it is probably 5x as often.