When will the matchmaking put me against opponents of the same skill level?

PopcornBunni··3 votes·922 views

Sitting at a 39% winrate (9% in ranked) and continuing to get reamed every game between my lane opponent having got gud far more than I could ever hope to, and my botlane losing to theirs.

Isn't there some "Match Making Rank" expressed as a value starting at 0 and going up, that is meant to put players of the same skill levels against each other, or is that just a common misconception and it just puts random people of random skill ranges together to save time?

Dear teammates: I hear what you are saying, and I also don't want to be matched with you causing your winrate to go down from having me as a teammate.

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420 grams1 votes

Try ranked, it has more consistent match making than normals

PopcornBunni1 votes

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Try ranked, it has more consistent match making than normals

I did try ranked, I have a 9% winrate there and dropping.

EDIT: 8.333% now, going 2/2/9 in the filled jungle role.

FooDang1 votes

It may be hard to match up Bronze 5 since not many people play at that skill level.

PopcornBunni1 votes

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It may be hard to match up Bronze 5 since not many people play at that skill level.

But why not at least match with winrate or something similar? I find it hard to believe silver V and Bronze II players have a 39% winrate. If they are placed above the lowest placement, wouldn't they presumably have close to a 50% winrate, approximating their skill at that tier?

RobbieFry131 votes

Um are you being sarcastic? You have been doing fine in normals. And you are still in placements so matchmaking barely has any info the use when you play ranked

PopcornBunni1 votes

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Um are you being sarcastic? You have been doing fine in normals. And you are still in placements so matchmaking barely has any info the use when you play ranked

How do you mean? I'm in Bronze V with a 14% winrate in ranked and a 40% winrate in normals, far from what I think most people would consider doing "fine." And in normals the only games I'm winning I'm a passive support standing around letting my team do everything and just doing my best to not get in the way to screw up their pathing because if I do anything else in any other role I get blown up in a quarter of a second.

Why am I being matched against good players when I'm the worst at video games to ever play this video game?

RobbieFry131 votes

Ok I will try to give you a relatively honest answer as best I can with my own limited knowlegde and experience. Ranked is your best bet for a more consistently even field but you will have to play a lot to get placed properly. As far as normals go I still say you are where you should be. For what ever reason things tend to go in streaks You'll lose for a while then win for a while and in the end you'll find you are right about 50%.
Just bc your teammates call you: noob and trash doesn't mean you are and it doesn't mean they know what they are talking about. The reason you are doing best as sup is that being more patient is how you are actually supposed to play. If you watch the pro's they don't jump in lane run past the minions and stand still right clicking the opponent until some one dies, they farm, ward and wait for opportunities. I feel like you are actually playing better than your teammates, they are just blaming you when they screw up which is one of the hardest parts about playing sup.

I'm not very good myself but to pass on advice I have gotten from Better players you can try: Play less champs, and try to focus on having not only a build but knowing what to build in different situations Also (something I am super bad at myself still) Farming, if you can play safe and last hit more minions than your opponent while properly managing your mana you can win lane. And don't worry so much about kills, farming, destroying turrets and killing dragons will give you higher levels, more Gold and buffs that make kills come a lot easier.

And if you want you can friend me and see first hand what bad at this game really looks like. [galio-happy]

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