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How many games does it take in Normal Draft until the matching system finds your place in MMR?

Maximus Paine·8/26/2016, 4:31:55 AM·1 votes·1,140 views

Hello all,

I presume the day you first play Normals the system will either estimate an MMR from your Level, Bot game performance or whatever; or it will assign you some "average" MMR. From there, it will match you for games and, as you win or lose, your MMR will go up or down until you reach your "true" level and start being matched with players of similar ability. (Or Smurf accounts :( )

In other words, I just started and played 4 Normal games and get ganked and killed without mercy and my team loses, how long does it take the system to match me with similarly skilled players and spare me the needless suffering, humiliation and flaming by toxic players? :-)

I had a lot of enthusiasm, got to Lvl 30, playing vs AI, started playing Intermediate Bots and I see most people seem to start playing Normals before that point. Actually, Riot suggests it by limiting the IP you get playing Bots. So, I've tried some Normals and gone 1-3. Unfortunately, I've found real douchey players who make the experience terrible. So, I wonder how long it takes before I get matched with players my level and don't have to deal with those "gifted" players.

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AnCa8/26/2016, 5:43:09 AM2 votes

It should be relatively fast but I do not know the exact numbers. And at lower MMR the skill discripency is huge. Also, consider this, person A is really good at jungling, he usually only play jungles in rank. But in normal games he just play whatever roles for fun, so for the few games he does play jungle, he will seems to have a much better skill than his MMR represent.

Also, since normal MMR are different from rank MMR. there are very skilled players that mostly only play rank, and play normal rarely, so their normal MMR can be much much lower than their rank MMR and does not represent their actual skill.

If you are transitioning from vs AI to vs actual players, you will find it very difficult. There are numerious things that is different, way too many to be listed. This might sound boring, but pick 1 main role and a 2ndary role and only play those. For the main roles pick only 3 champions you will play, and for the 2ndary role only pick no more than 2 you will play. The main reason to do this is because by playing only 2 roles and only a limited amount of champions, you will eventually not have to think about any of your mechanical decision in game and can "observe" more what other people is doing. That will help you transition to playing vs player from vs AI. Then just play a whole bunch of normal games, and you will eventually pick up skills that you cannot in vs AI.

Also, if you are not comfortable with normals, do not play rank, absolutely do not. It is stressful, and people are batshit crazy about their elo which make them rage more. Additionally, since you are still not comfortable with playing vs players, you probably will lose more games. It is better not to fall into Bronze ever than trying to climb out later. Basically, what I am getting at is if you play normal games until you are about as good as Silver or Gold elo level of skills then you probably won't ever have to deal with climbing out of Bronze when you want to play rank.

Good luck in the melting pot that is league of legend where you meet all sort of people. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Siyther8/26/2016, 4:44:14 AM1 votes

in short never