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Upgraded to LSD·2/9/2017, 5:23:38 AM·2 votes·916 views

Riot, you probably don't read this but recently the quality of matches has gone to absolute shit. I am a high gold player but for some reason you guys think that balanced teams are five plats vs me and five silvers. Because of this I have dropped now to bronze 5 playing with all silvers. I have experienced 20 games this season exactly like this. For one, how are these teams in any way balanced and how is it fun for me as a player to have 100% kp at 20 minutes in half my games. My op.gg states that on OVER HALF of the champions I have played in ranked I have a 4.0 kda or around there. For instance on hecarim I have exactly a 4.0 kda and yet less than a 35% winrate. I do not understand a game that doesn't reward good players and instead punishes them by placing them against difficult opponents with lower mmr teams. I understand that the season just started and you guys are still trying to figure something out, but maybe instead of making all these new skins, fix the mmr and matchmaking systems in your game! I know I sound like a little toxic bitch by saying this but I play league to have fun and right now, it has the opposite effect.

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2420105794/223255208

5 Comments

MrHaZeYo2/9/2017, 5:30:27 AM1 votes

When does being Gold 5 equate to being a high gold player?

Reaper Soraka2/9/2017, 5:38:06 AM1 votes

I decided to see how the "pros" are playing earlier today. I haven't watched other people play for a long time. Maybe I could pick up some new strategy to work toward gold V faster.

Guess what I saw? The end of some challenger's stream. His team went 0-5 in the first 6 minutes and opened mid. Okay the toxicity is getting to them so they just want to be done.

Well...no. They considered it a lost game, and didn't want to waste time an up-hill battle for LP. They cut their losses, which wasn't much since the game ended in 9mins instead of 20-30. In the end he looked over his LP gain for the day and determined he was up.

What the fuck? Is this high tier solo queue?

Twinity Ferce2/9/2017, 5:55:45 AM1 votes

Checked your match history. First of all, Gold V is not high gold. You're basically silver at this point. (And according to op.gg, your MMR equals that of a silver 3 player. Hence you're apparently not consistently playing well, but varying A LOT in performance.)

On one hand you are right. Your teammates were all silvers while the enemy team had a couple golds and a couple silvers in your recent matches. That's nothing special, however. How would you ever rank up if you cant beat players on your own division or (slightly) above?

I couldnt find any matches where you faced any platinum players. The average rank of your opponents is silver 1, where the lowest rank was Bronze and the highest ranks were Gold V.

What's the problem here? You're getting teamed up with people in silver because the game would demote you if it was possible, while your opponents are usually silver as well with the occasional gold V player (In other words your own rank), giving you a chance to climb should you be able to beat them.

I honestly couldnt find any players above Gold V in your most recent games, but then again i only checked your 5 most recent games. You had a pretty good win streak going before that, so i dont see what the problem is.