Why Am I Being Matched with Platinums?

King of Stupid·10/12/2015, 5:21:15 PM·1 votes·878 views

I have been matched against multiple platinum players (IN SOLO QUE) and I get DESTROYED every time. As a bronze 1 basically everything I do in lane against a platinum is useless. It would make sense that riot is matching me against higher level players to challenge me but a platinum is way too hard. Usually the enemy team consists of an unranked player, 2 silvers, a Gold 5, and a platinum player; and I am in lane against that platinum player. It may be my bad luck but is a team with a silver 5 and a platinum 2 balanced in any way???

12 Comments

Snowball4u10/12/2015, 5:23:11 PM1 votes

You haven't even PLAYED solo que in at least 2 months.

EndlessSorcerer10/12/2015, 5:23:33 PM1 votes

Ranked and Normal MMR is separate. If they don't play many normal games, then it wouldn't be surprising for there to be a large difference between their ranked and normal MMR.

It's also possible that they were just duo-queued with a lower tier player.

Penguin Eclipse10/12/2015, 5:24:42 PM1 votes

You are in solo queue but are you actually soloing? Duoing can cause some very bad matchups.

Poop Jelly10/12/2015, 5:42:32 PM1 votes

Personally I don't find anything wrong with being matched up with higher skilled people unless you just want to have fun and don't want to feel bad losing or being burden to your other teammates. You definitely can learn from them once you've cooled off from frustration or whatnot.

However, if those plat players are sore winners as in trash talking and flaring taunts/emotes to show how awesome(ly pathetic) they are, then that's when I have to speak up against those. You shouldn't make losing teams feel worse than they already do, that's just bullying.

MLDzXnRRR10/12/2015, 5:59:27 PM1 votes

I often destroy diamonds in normal games and I'm platinum...