Not sure how Riot matchmakes.

ramennoodlez·Jul 29, 2019·1 votes·1,074 views

So I had ~20% winrate Gold 1 player in a platinum 2 game. I understand how matchmaking seems unfair when one team completely stomps another due to a multitude of reasons (one player just got unlucky even though they are usually good/tilt/etc), but usually in this case the match is made fair in the start. However I don't understand why a ~20% gold 1 player is in a plat 2 game. If he was like ~70% w/r gold 1 player, then I understand because their mmr would be very high. However, this person's mmr is no where close to p2 elo and it shows in his performance. Please Riot look at your algorithm.

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Kai GuyJul 29, 20191 votes

My $ is on Duoing. Bet you find he has some high MMR friends he played with and they abused Preseason or Placements to try and ramp the guys MMR sky high.

Other then that its might be an older account with a higher MMR from last season.

Those are the two most common situations I see in mismatched games.

FOR JUSTICEJul 29, 20191 votes

i decided to take a look into this and he shows no signs of actually duoing.

he has 25 games of ranked this season with only 6 of those being wins, so tbh this instance is legitimately just a bad mm, from the mmr bug like you said. he still for some reason is gold though.

Kai GuyJul 29, 20191 votes

Oh? Guess I should take a look. Ok. Found the account. Warwick .

Ah a new ish account. No prior seasons eh?

I had been expecting to find a Plat 2-1 Duo with the issue account in the match but that's a no go.

Oh.. What in the fuck? Op.GG is missing lots of data

This is the right history. I can see the OP and the WW, the match that made this thread.

The hell is this? Server Change? Name change? Purchased account? Shit I got No idea what I am looking at.

FOR JUSTICEJul 29, 20192 votes

exactly, i cant even explain wtf happened here, though a server change does sound decently plausible, because i dont think it would show past seasons for a server you didnt exist in.

Sound ChimeraJul 29, 20191 votes

Doesnt pretty much everyone with a new account (that never played ranked) start around silver?

Gold 1 - 24% winrate - mmr around platin 3-1

something went really wrong.

[sg-lux-2]

Kai GuyJul 29, 20191 votes

Op.GG is missing a lot of data on the account in question. No idea why. Take a look at their match history and you see they have far more games then what OP.GG tracked.

I am stumped for why this is.

Sound ChimeraJul 29, 20191 votes

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Op.GG is missing a lot of data on the account in question. No idea why. Take a look at their match history and you see they have far more games then what OP.GG tracked.

I am stumped for why this is.

huh.. i was even checking on u.gg if he really just has 20 games there is alot missing nevern seen something like that

mb i guess!

Unker139Jul 29, 20191 votes

[{quoted}](name=Kai Guy,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=wAbF0yAe,comment-id=00010000,timestamp=2019-07-29T19:04:20.808+0000)

Op.GG is missing a lot of data on the account in question. No idea why. Take a look at their match history and you see they have far more games then what OP.GG tracked.

I am stumped for why this is.

Op.gg looks at last 20 games to show current trends.

Kai GuyJul 29, 20191 votes

Yea but the champions TAB usually will have prior seasons information. It will let you know if they played in other years. That information is MIA.