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Matchmaking in Normals

destiny fan·6/25/2017, 11:56:12 PM·1 votes·398 views
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Hi i'm a Silver level-rank player, maybe low gold, regardless, i've been having a problem for the past 6-7 months of playing league.

Normals are nearly unplayable

why is this you may ask? well, its actually very simple, after 1k-1.2k games my Hidden MMR has become too high for my skill level, i get Diamond and Platinum players on a regular basis, this is not fun and it has to stop, these players are substancially better than me and either zone me out of all the farm in lane or straight up murder me 4-5 times before the laning phase ends.

That last match was against a DIamond I main Zed player, a Diamond 5 Jarvan jungle, i was playing with a couple of friends so sure, some extra mmr, but never like this, our jungler, one of my friends got absolutely destroyed, while this is not his fault, as like me, he's a Silver level player, this was a less than enjoyable match

So, what is the problem? High Ranked MMR players will not have such a high normal MRR, resulting in games with 2 silvers an unranked player and 2 extremely dominating Diamond players, a fairly unfair match.

some of you may throw the argument that we should learn from these players. This is not the case at all, you learn nothing from getting stomped in lane.

How to solve this? Average Ranked MMR along Normal hidden MMR, with Ranked MMR having a little more impact than Normal hidden MMR, resulting on fair matches with equally skilled players and not high ranked players stomping less skilled players.

The root of this complaint is not losing a game or blaming my friends, no, the root of this complain is having extremely unfun games against clearly superior players

5 Comments

Tarzeus6/26/2017, 12:05:03 AM1 votes

If you think 0/5 is being "absolutely destroyed" I have bad news for you. That game wasn't even much of a stomp, you just lost. Simply because they're a higher rank doesn't mean necessarily they are superior in every way. League is as much a gamble with who gets the good teammates as it is individual skill.

Unfortunate but worst case scenario use that game as a learning game and study what's happening.

Calabok6/26/2017, 2:28:22 AM1 votes

its just normals.

carry on

Sanctimonious6/26/2017, 2:32:12 AM1 votes

I looked at your match history, you seem to almost always get golds / plats in your games. You also get the occasional diamond player. Despite this, you've won 13 and lost 10. You're actually climbing in normals mmr lol.