A Flaw I have Noticed in Ranked Games

DeadUnborn·Oct 24, 2017·3 votes·260 views

After getting a 5 win streak in Ranked and climbing up to Plat 1, I have noticed a mechanism in the way Ranked matches players:

The more you consecutively win, the more inexperienced your teammates are. Conversely, if you start losing you get better players on your team. The 2 last games my teammates were honestly clueless about basic game mechanics -- for example, my top laner got angry because I rushed 2 fire dragons rather than ganking him straight away... in plat 1. I don't think that is a fair system to have, since that means your win rate has to be a lot higher than 50% in order to climb up. I myself couldn't climb with my 52% Rek Sai, and only reached Plat 1 when I switched to Warwick and got a 67% win rate with him (WW is busted if enemies do dumb skirmishes, which in plat happens all the time).

7 Comments

SteeIHeartOct 24, 20171 votes

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DeadUnbornOct 24, 20171 votes

I think that part is coincidence/ seeing stuff through a tilted mindset. However MMR calculation for averaging teams is a mathematical reality. Because people can play as premades, if the game notices you are winning a lot (having higher mmr) it will put you in with lower level premades to "average" the team out in terms of mean MMR. I don't think that is fair for solo players... surely after losing 2 times in a row with terrible teammates I got a panth that carried 16 3

MysterQOct 24, 20171 votes

But you have to explain what happens when Riot forces you to lose games. Myself and others have had HUGE loss streaks for no apparent reason; I went from 65% down to 35% with 2 deranks (over ~2 weeks of daily play) with almost continual losses. Probably like 7-8 in a row.

Like yea, it could just be me being bad. But it really feels like RIot was just screwing you over. Take a 1 month break. All of a sudden I am sitting at 80% WR??? Really. Do they toggle it up because I stopped playing for awhile? I was playing for my team well but I went like 17 deaths one game and was still easily carried.

I will watch my friend play. When he was Silver, he had the freeest games. He literally could do nothing and his team would still just win. It was like Riot was trying to rush him back to Plat ASAP. It is one thing if he was crushing lane, but no he was average and his other lanes were all just winning.

DeadUnbornOct 24, 20171 votes

Was this during summer? A lot of kids play during summer and bring the skill level of matches way down. If you have high mmr they pair you up with a bunch of them and its really though to win