Why am I playing higher elo players?

Big Harold·May 4, 2018·1 votes·1,574 views

I just finished a normal game where the enemy team was comprised of 3 players who were currently in gold with one having been platinum last season and the other two were silver. My team had never been higher than silver except for one player who had been gold in season 5. How does this kind of matchmaking happen? We got absolutely destroyed by the player who had been platinum. Really bad experience. Doesn't make me want to keep playing because I might waste another 30 min getting one-shot by a Diana.

4 Comments

Kulle AidMay 4, 20182 votes

So actually think about this. you cant rage but practice. How do you get better? How do you improve if your always facing people that are making around the same decisions as you are and have similar skills?

It's not easy. you get better by practice even if you get shit on. your practicing against their elo. at least it isn't like diamond. I'm G1 as a support. I see a difference on different accounts. play styles are totally different. its great practice

AlienPrimateMay 4, 20181 votes

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So actually think about this. you cant rage but practice. How do you get better? How do you improve if your always facing people that are making around the same decisions as you are and have similar skills?

It's not easy. you get better by practice even if you get shit on. your practicing against their elo. at least it isn't like diamond. I'm G1 as a support. I see a difference on different accounts. play styles are totally different. its great practice

Getting one shot is not great practice ever. You can't get better by getting stomped. You get better by facing people with the same skill or who are slightly better. No one learns anything from taking 2k damage from a fed Diana in 0.0001 seconds other than what happens when someone gets fed. Unless you have a coach to tell you what you are doing wrong against a better player you won't learn very fast.

Seer of MindMay 4, 20182 votes

It's not exactly fair to be matched against high ranked players, but you have to accept a challenge when it's presented.

I've faced some Silver 3-Gold 4 players in normal matches, most of the time we got stomped, and sometimes we put up a good fight.

All you can do is practice. I personally am just going to hop into ranked and play as hard as I can.

Big HaroldMay 4, 20181 votes

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It's not exactly fair to be matched against high ranked players, but you have to accept a challenge when it's presented.

I've faced some Silver 3-Gold 4 players in normal matches, most of the time we got stomped, and sometimes we put up a good fight.

All you can do is practice. I personally am just going to hop into ranked and play as hard as I can.

This is a very good point, but I don't really care about getting better at this point (as stupid as that sounds). I like the closely matched games because I feel like there's an actual fight happening. This game was fairly unique in how fed the Diana got and that made it especially bad. Also I could accept if their team was, on average, between silver 1 and gold 5, but their average rank was gold 3 and higher if you include their past experience. The skill gap was far more disparate than normal.