So can your MMR fall below bronze 5 average??

ryudo9999·4/8/2016, 6:47:37 PM·2 votes·1,083 views

cause as soon as i got into b4 i started gaining 12 lp for wins and 26 for losses, if i continue to win does that make my MMR go up or down? the system seems backwards because if i did bad some in ranked then practice in normals then i do good now my rank should go up faster showing improvement, or so i would think should be the way it works, but if you show improvement it punishes you? I am confused on why MMR is used in the first place, will i never get out of bronze no matter how good i get because of my MMR?

4 Comments

Meurtrierr4/8/2016, 6:48:25 PM1 votes

You can become copper.

Lazypeon1004/8/2016, 7:06:50 PM1 votes

Okay, I can explain a bit. Yes, your MMR can fall below the average for B5. When this happens, your wins will give you little LP while losses will incur heavy lp losses. You obviously can't fall below B5, but your mmr will be below it.

Normals and ranked have two different sets of mmr. So your normal games do not affect your ranked mmr and vice versa.

The only way to fix it is to start winning more ranked games. Each win will increase your mmr, consecutive wins in a row increase it even further than just win / losing. I think it is after 5 or 6 wins in a row, the system tries to match you against higher ratted opponents because it is trying to find where you belong.

Hope this helps.

Edit: Forgot to add, MMR is used to try to find out where you belong. Sometimes you can lose games at 0 LP in a division but not get demoted. Your LP doesn't take a hit for that, but your MMR does. Also, for the specific question you have, if you are at b5 and keep losing, your MMR will keep dropping. You could win quite a few games and get back up to B4, but if you lost enough games where your mmr is still lower than that, the system is going to try to put you bacl to B5 u less you keep winning and fix your mmr.

ryudo99994/9/2016, 4:09:26 AM1 votes

haha this is exactly what happened cause i figured oh what the shit i played this game off and on for 3 years i should be fine in bronze, but apparently my mechanics were really really bad couldnt land skill shots etc so now that it all came back i have been smashing games the only ones i lose are the afk/rage quits which have been happening quite alot lately but now maybe i can stop the rage quits by explaining what will happen to their mmr because i would also rage quit blaming other people instead of my faulty mechanics causing some of tthis MMR problems i wish my mmr would go up from game performance instead of win/loss but the worlds not perfect. Also i went to some website and when i hit b4 it said see your MMR? i was like wtf i thought its secret and its like your MMR is well below this rank... lol it was like 740 and it said mmr for my rank was 770 or so? i guess? thank you for explaining