I've been playing Flex queue on one of my other accounts to try and get double rewards by getting it to gold, but every single game of silver flex has Diamond solo queue player(s) in it who ether troll, or just stomp and carry the game. I understand that flex is it's own system But I feel that if you are diamond in solo queue you shouldn't actively be playing with silvers in flex.
PhDs Nuts1 votesIm in gold in Flex and I exclusively play against diamonds. Flex MMR is broken.
Hopeslayer1 votesnot to mention all the trolls
i have had 1 game where i was put with 4 man premade, they /ff while we were taking enemy nexus another 4 man premade that all quit the game at 3 mins
duo and trio troll a lot in flex too, its just not as harmful as the full 4 man screwing the solo queuer
Mysticman891 votesLots of people including diamond haven't really put any serious time into playing flex, so their flex mmr isn't quite representitive of their skill levels. this can lead to some stompy matches, which occasionally brings lower skilled people up to higher MMR than they should have, and it just leaves the whole system pretty messy. Since the system is a bit messy, people then don't bother to play more games and get their MMRs to settle around their skill level, and the problem persists.
Over a few seasons if people actually played it somewhat seriously matches would probably get fairer (although with premades being kinda the point, theres always gonna be much more skill variance compared to solo/duo).
I actually don't think it was that bad early on when everyone just had their starting seed MMR which was based on their old dynamic queue MMR from last season, but dynamic queue also had lots of people at MMRs they didn't deserve, which means their flex mmrs were wrong too. Then again, I am somewhat biased since I managed to place plat 1 in flex by some miracle, so probably skipped a lot of pain.
