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My team carried an inting top to victory.

Der Lindwurm·2/4/2018, 9:09:19 PM·1 votes·226 views

Not just having a bad game, nope. Our Camille literally stood there and let the enemy team kill her several times. Nonetheless, thanks my hustle and hard work, my team was able to win once our Twitch decided to stop AFK farming and actually join the fight and I finally convinced our Yi that he should fight with me there rather than always trying to 1 v 3 or 4. And now our Camille gets credited with a victory for doing nothing. For doing less than nothing. For actually hindering everyone else's efforts.

I'm told, if I were good enough, I would immediately climb out of the MMR morass where I was placed, and that matchmaking isn't putting greater demands on me than anyone else. Well then, where are the games where I can goof off and feed or leave the game for 15 minutes or do ROFL full AP support but still get carried by teammates who are ranked lower than I am? Why does that never happen?

That Camille top has a 35% win rate, 1.22 KDA, higher rank, and higher MMR than me with 4.5 KDA but only 25% winrate. This is only one example, a particularly egregious one since inting gets rewarded with victory, but you can find a similar situation with at least one player on my team in all of my games. We need some explanation of how matchmaking and MMR actually work since it's clearly not a matter of getting matched with people at the same MMR and then winning and climbing if you play at a higher level than people at that level.

1 Comments

Professor Hook2/4/2018, 10:39:28 PM1 votes

Last season, I had a few failed attempts at winning my series to get out of Bronze. I finally managed to get out, and this season I was placed in Silver II and have climbed to Gold IV so far.

You will just be mentally defeated if you tell yourself things like "I can't win no matter what I do" or "MMR is unfair." Neither of those things is true. Just keep trying, see what you're doing wrong and where you have room for improvement (which is not to say that some games aren't genuinely uncarriable, but they're a minority), and just don't stop trying if you want to climb.

The situation you mentioned where an intentional feeder was carried by their team actually happened in one of my games as well, except that I was the one against the intentional feeder. Needless to say, the loss felt horrible, especially since the intentional feeder was the enemy ADC, no less, but these games are a minority and just don't matter much in the grand scheme of things. You are going to climb if you're good enough, period.