It's time we address Normal games (Repost)

Håppy··3 votes·329 views
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Don't delete my post with the assumption it's "reporting someone", I'm starting a discussion about how absolutely fucked your normals matchmaking is. Here, I'll appease you by removing the other images showing how many times I've been matched with challenger players.

Alright, so. I want to make a note that I have almost 100 wins > losses, and so that may be a deciding factor in just how high my Normals MMR is. However, I want you to also notice that I have an unranked and a silver player on my team.

This is absolutely unacceptable. I am in low gold. I play with friends who are unranked-silver. I play with one friend who is even pre-30. I'd say those games make up for maybe 20 of my win>loss, since I also lose many games playing with them. Why am I facing players in Master, Diamond, and Platinum tier? There is such a huge difference in skill, even if you look at the ranks/winrates of my team vs their team, I have an unranked, a diamond, a platinum, and a silver player against a team of all plat+. I can't be the only one, and that leads me to believe that your matchmaking system is broken, far past just Ranked games. It needs an entire overhaul, a reevaluation. I should not be driven in to smurfing for normal games so I can avoid boosted Challenger players and playing against Plat-Master tier players.

3 Comments

Amelie2 votes

I think the problem is that normal MMR and ranked MMR is totally separate. I remember making a support ticket to complain about this years ago. My suggestion to them was to increase the normal MMR of people who are ranked Diamond+ to reduce these kinds of games. (Many Diamond+ players don't have high MMR in normals since they play more ranked.)

I don't know how much Riot cares about normal matchmaking, though. I have over 4000 normal games played. Even now, I still get games where I or the enemy team has someone under level 30, and my/enemy team has Plat-Diamond players that just stomp them to oblivion. I have over 50% win rate in normals, so I don't think it's from bad MMR. The matchmaker just makes really, really poor matches...

cinomenapplebae1 votes

tldr y is unrankd playing with diamond

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