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Diamond players in silver

Business trooper·Nov 18, 2018·4 votes·2,656 views

I'm going to start this off by saying I take ranked seriously whether or not its Flex or Solo, I know there are people that will flame for that but it's w/e I don't care about their opinion. I'm here to suggest a matchmaking balance issue. Players in solo Q that achieve a high rank lets say Diamond for example should not be able to flex with a player that is silver regardless of what their flex rank is.

So Diamond solo with a flex rank of silver shouldn't be able to play with say a player with solo rank gold and a flex rank silver. That duo is going to be paired with a bunch of gold players and the opposing team will get rolled by the Diamond player. This one is not fair matchmaking for the Gold team but also doesn't promote any learning for the silver player or the gold players because one is getting carried and the other is getting stomped.

So please just a suggestion players with a much higher solo ranked regardless of their flex rank shouldn't be able to play with people outside their solo Q elo in ranked.

6 Comments

qwerty19Nov 18, 20181 votes

rank is rank, eventually the higher skilled people will be out of your rank and you will get matched with people more equal to you

Business trooperNov 18, 20181 votes

Thats fine I'm saying like silver player and a diamond player are friends. Diamond player is silver in flex and Q's up with silver player in flex. That player isn't actually silver they just don't play flex ever but anyone else they play against is going to actually be silver and it will be free games all day. This skews the matchmaking super hard and inflates players that shouldn't be there and dumps on players that shouldn't be getting dumped on.

qwerty19Nov 20, 20181 votes

this happens in solo/duo all the time too, theres millions of smurf accounts in silver/gold so this isnt just a flex issue. As far as other players getting boosted in flex because their teammates are unfairly ranked lower, those players after playing the game their rank will lower back down because they will lose to the more skilled people they got boosted up to. Or they learn from those higher skilled matches and actually become better at the game thats also a possibility. There is really nothing more Riot can do about this issue besides reporting the players that are being toxic and say things like "idc you dont deserve to win this isnt my main" or stuff like that. The only way to fix your issue is to have your flex mmr be linked to your solo/duo mmr which has its own issues. And you can't stop people from smurfing or having multiple accounts so really just a waste of time complaining about it. For 9 out of 10 cases the issue resolves itself.

Business trooperNov 20, 20181 votes

I feel like flex and solo mmr should be linked so that whenever you Queue up for ranked you are playing against people that are around your skill level. Saying something like "It'll fix itself" is lazy, while the problem "fixes itself" dozens of matches affecting potentially hundreds of players go by. This kind of thing happening is part of the reason why the community is so toxic because Riot claims to have systems in place to keep things "balanced" and people just go right ahead and circumvent those safeguards. I understand that there are people that make new accounts and level them there is nothing to really do about that at this time, but if there is a currently easily solvable problem that isn't being solved because "it'll work itself out" isn't acceptable and is poor management.

kikisbewstngsrvcNov 18, 20181 votes

normally what qwerty19 is saying would be true, theoretically the diamond player who's in a much lower elo would repeatedly win and be gone. Unfortunately the community in league is not ideal. There are multiple different scenarios in which this player might intentionally "maintain" the silver elo. A couple examples would be for boosting and for the enjoyment of intentionally ruining games (which despite what riot may tell you, is unfortunately more common than you would think.) Players have been reporting match-making issues for quite a while to my knowledge and in my time playing the game so far, i haven't seen any "good efforts" into fixing it.

Business trooperNov 18, 20181 votes

Agreed I feel like this would be a reasonably easy fix that would help slightly.

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