Flex Matchmaking

The current season emblem shown on all those sites gives the player's solo queue ranking, whether you're looking at a solo queue game or a flex queue game. This is just a failure of all those 3rd party sites to adapt what's displayed based on the queue you're in. To my knowledge, none of them do that.

What you would have seen if the 3rd party sites were modified to show everybody's current flex queue ranking if the game being viewed is a flex queue game:

Silver 2 (you), Silver 2, Gold 3, Gold 4, Gold 4 vs. Gold 4, Gold 4, Silver 3, Gold 2, Silver 2.

By the raw numbers, that doesn't actually seem so bad.

Not as bad as the Silver 2, Bronze 1, Gold 3, Unranked, Silver 4 team I had verses the Plat 1, Gold 2, Diamond 4, Plat 4, Gold 5 enemy team.

Flex match making hardly takes solo play into account. It should.

I've been playing a lot of Flex Queue lately as a solo, and the pre-match sites I check say I have been getting matched with, for the most part, much better players. The majority have been medium or high gold, but I've seen a lot of platinum ranked players too and about as many Diamond players as Bronze players (not many at all, but they're there). Silvers have been uncommon. However, all that of those ranks are their Solo Queue rankings. I've checked their profiles after game, and an incredible majority of the Summoners have a lower Flex Queue ranking than solo. Sometimes it's a whole League under their Solo Queue ranking. So, I'm not really surprised. My Flex Queue rank is higher than my Solo Rank, and I think my MMR is better than average, so that explains the good people I'm getting in my games. I'm taking it as a learning experience, and I'm going to be all the more proud of my Flex Queue rank when I get it. I'm in my series for Gold right now, and it will be my first time being Gold in my life. I'm so pumped!