im only a silver 2 player so I dont know that much but, when i get paired up with golds mulitple games in a row and gain like 14 lp, why is it when i get paired up with a bronze duo that i lose 20+ lp? I really dont know how mmr works can someone explain mmr to me and are there any reliable sites where i can check my mmr?
Man idk why people downvoted you for asking questions.
MMR stands for match made rating. Essentially it's a number that ranks you in the total population of your server. This number is used to determine who you play with and against, their MMR number will be close to yours.
The amount of LP you gain or lose depends on the difference between your team's average MMR and the enemy team's average MMR. If your team's is higher, you'll gain less LP and lose more since the game knows you're more likely to win. If your team's MMR is lower, you'll win more LP and lose less since the game knows it's a tough game.
There are no reliable sites to check your MMR. I think the best we have is op.gg which will show you a rough estimate of your MMR and let you know how you stack up to averages at your rank. Generally if your MMR is above average you'll climb, and you'll drop if it's lower than average.
This is a summary, some of it may not be perfectly accurate. RIOT has not disclosed exactly how MMR works in LOL.
Bronze 1 here paired up with golds lol Tho i do get 27 lp each game...
are there any reliable sites where i can check my mmr?
You can check your MMR on whatismymmr.com, which also gives a history of how you're going up/down.
Using that site, after losing two games in a row, my MMR is approximately Gold. If I could check after dialing back my two last played games, both tremendous losses (one troll, and one with a mid laner who had a 15% win rate who literally lost lane to the enemy team not having a mid laner. Yeah it was a shitshow) it would be even higher. And yet, while playing in Bronze 1 with GOLD MMR, Riot support has the audacity to tell me that I do not have high enough MMR to skip a division.
"So if you are seeing Gold players it means their MMR is lower or your MMR is higher than typical, so I get why you imagine you may skip divisions but in this case it doesn't appear a skip was warranted. " - Straight up a quote from my support ticket. For the record, the gold players mentioned in my game had 100 and 250 games respectively, both with a 53% win rate. Their MMR is and was NOT below typical.
But please Riot, tell me about how I don't deserve to skip a single division.
