Matchmaking in normals uneven?

TheDeathCow·9/16/2016, 12:44:52 AM·1 votes·469 views

I just finished playing a normal draft game, and when i saw that the Akali from the enemy team had 20+ kills while the rest of us had only about 5 average, I looked up my match on lolnexus. I found out that while all of us were either unranked or low bronze, she was currently gold 5. By the end of the match, she had 41 kills, and our Ahri had 23.

I don't really know if this is common (I've never had this happen before), but I thought that the matchmaking took the player's account status into account? Why would a bunch of people who are unranked or in bronze be matched with someone in gold?

Here are screenshots of both the lolnexus lookup and the end results.

http://imgur.com/a/TNBNc

http://imgur.com/a/H2LPF

2 Comments

Calabok9/16/2016, 12:46:54 AM1 votes

but normals do not count like ranked does.

I wear Givenchy9/16/2016, 1:55:20 AM1 votes

MMR is different than ranked MMR MMR is also different than the Division you're in.