Question about MMR and matchups

OuijaBored·10/30/2016, 9:40:23 PM·1 votes·522 views

how does being matched up with your teammates work???

I've been playing this game for almost over a year now, on an almost daily basis (at least five hours everytime)

Every time I go into a ranked game, I am matched with people who either just hit level 30 or have just started to try to play ranked and climb. Why does this happen? Is there a way to stop it other than suck it up and just play with a bunch of people who don't know much at all about the game? I've been trying to climb the ranked ladder for a few months now since I feel like I know a decent amount about the game and know how to carry myself and normal games have become a breeze for me, preseason I was ranked silver 3 and then from there dropped and can't seem to get back to silver and climb out. I win two matches, get matched with trolls and lose like three in a row. I even take breaks to untilt myself which honestly doesn't really even happen to begin with anyways cause losing doesn't really bother me much. I can play virtually any role with jungle not being my best but I can still go there (I prefer not to because if poppy is banned then I'm pretty much screwed, I have larger champion pools for champs in good at in other lanes) I've tried supporting, and I feel like in that role I rely wayyyyyyyyy toooo muchhhh on everyone having a brain and then if I go mid then I gotta rely on both the ADC and support having a brain which is never the case and then if I ADC then I have to rely on mid having a brain which never happens either.

I just wanna be matched up with people who know the same things as me :/

6 Comments

Weathered10/30/2016, 10:01:45 PM1 votes

To be fair, the average rank for a player is mid/low silver. Someone who is a fresh 30 account in placements will usually be placed in that range. You are on the lower end of the spectrum, so you inherently deal with a lot of the fresh accounts.

Cat cafe10/30/2016, 10:13:11 PM1 votes

League for the most part, will match you up with similar players of your level.

  • Basically, the chance that you get bad players/trolls is the same chance that the enemy team gets them
Shubham Sharma10/30/2016, 11:23:17 PM1 votes

Yeah game knowledge helps but low silver is full of fresh accts, -a friend of mine who's new to moda and league placed into silver 5, I peronsally started my first season in silver 1 but I had been playing dota for years priror, ended my first season (season4) as plat 4, diamond 5 (season 5) and currently Diamond 4 but had a pretty afk season, maybe next year I'll have more free time :) anyways, my best advice is to watch coaching videos about league, and master a high impact role, for example I climbed playing champions that can siege and lane well, like tryna, corki, and marksmen roles in plat and low diamond, but for silver I'd suggest Jax/trynda for top Malz/brand/syndra mid I'd avoid support unless you know how to roam effectively and if you do support play high dmg supports like Zyra or velkoz, I am an ADC main but I don't like suggest ADC (my opinion) becuz it's so team dependent that you need to be a lot more disciplined to carry well in low Elo just cause if toyur support feeds or trolls it can be hard unless you are good at the role so I like to suggest mid/top/JG if you are a map awareness kinda guy, i peronsally like reksai/but I'm a bad jg so yah

I got carried away summary This game is hard and full of morons. You can only carry yourself outta there.