How do i NOT get matched with players below my skill level?

Angel Violét·Feb 29, 2016·2 votes·685 views

It seems like that my MMR for normal games are highly inaccurate, i always get paired with teammates/enemies who are around bronze 2 - silver 4 level at best. I was gold 5 last season and currently silver 2, i can play comfortably in ranked games because teammates cooperate with me. But when i go into normal games it just feels like me and my teammates are not even on the same page....

Before preseason my games were fine, i get paired with ~silver 3 level players in normals, but for some reason now im just playing with noobs. I need a solution... i rarely play ranked games ( too much pressure), and i hate having to play ranked just for a comfortable experience. Fix your matchmaking system RITO! :(((((((((((((((((((((((

9 Comments

DreadlocksFeb 29, 20161 votes

idk they seem the same to me lol.

Angel ViolétFeb 29, 20161 votes

Yeah I'm the only one who's having this problem afaik....

DreadlocksFeb 29, 20161 votes

Nah im saying, bronze silver gold 5... not much dif in skill >.> idk how you notice anything. lol

Angel ViolétFeb 29, 20161 votes

lol.. You wouldn't believe it unless you actually watch me play... When you ping bot lane danger and caitlyn still proceeds to chase enemy at half health and dies When your team have amumu and annie + ahead and they dont engage When your team is doing 4v2 while 2 enemies are split pushing and they still dont engage When support don't even buy sightstone When nobody on the team switches to blue trinket/sweeping lens When super minions are threatening our inhibitor turrets but your team still decides to group When dragon's up and we just killed 4 of them and your team have no awareness to get dragon until you ping dragon multime times ..... I can go on. Point is, I can see clearly that my teammates are below my skill level, I'm not a raging kid who thinks everybody on his team is trash, I've played with people in my skill level and I've played with people who aren't, I CAN SEE AND FEEL THE DIFFERENCE.

I'm tired of losing even if I'm 8/2, or 25/6 When I win it's because the enemy team is even worse than us Even when i win i don't feel any sense of achievement because there was no teamwork involved, or at least, no "proper teamwork". I hope i can get my point across

DreadlocksFeb 29, 20161 votes

I hope you can sleep better at night after me informing you that shit like this happens even at high gold/low plat..

Angel ViolétFeb 29, 20161 votes

But how come before preseason i was playing very well with my teammates? I just feel "comfortable" playing because we were on the same level, me and my teammates had similar minds and if we lose it's because the enemies were just better... Ofc there are still games where you will get 1-2 feeders, but nowadays It's like in a team of 5, 2 of them will have no idea what they are doing, and only 1-2 of your teammates actually knows how to cooperate with you.... It's really weird

DreadlocksFeb 29, 20161 votes

Probably because you are paying more attention to it now than u were.

I am PacmanFeb 29, 20161 votes

I usually don't check my enemies rank on normals and I also usually play normals with lower ranked friends whom i cant play ranked with but,

Normals mmr is separate from ranked mmr so maybe you just fell into a normals mmr with consistent bronzies.

Personally because normals don't really matter to me, I can pay less attention, chat with my friends, try out a new champ I know im gonna suck at, focus on improving one specific aspect of my champion or laning (trying not to die as much as possible, x amount of cs by 20 min, testing the limits of a champ im trying to learn etc).

That being said I find ranked to be much less stressful if you remember that you have another 8 months to get where you want to be, and not worry about your rank. I just went on a loss streak from plat 2 60 lp down to plat 4 75 lp. This happened due to me not knowing when to stop playing (like when its 2:00 am and you are tired as balls).

I say just play ranked and don't even look at your lp post match, just focus on doing well or improving something every game.

idk just my 2 cents.

Angel ViolétFeb 29, 20161 votes

Often times I play champions who i want to practice, and i don't really "try hard". That's why I rarely play ranked, I don't really give a shit about my rank either, but it's just very unenjoyable to play with "bronzies" because it just isn't fun. It's like everybody think different than me and I lose objectives or kills or the whole game because my team didn't do something that I expects them to do on this skill level and it's really frustrating.. At first i thought maybe just playing more will fix the problem since my MMR will be corrected by the system and i will get paired with better teammates and enemies. But still the problem persists, often times in a normal game i would be the one guy with the golden border, there would be another guy with a silver border, and 3 people with no borders....