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How accurate is LoLKing/na.op.gg

KrushakArrankiss·4/4/2016, 3:23:08 AM·1 votes·1,940 views

I am curious to how "accurate" these two websites are. I just got out of a bad game, I admit I did bad but the guy who we played against first pick jungle and forced our jungler to be mid. He claims he did it so we wouldn't have lost as fast but the guy failed, ganked maybe once, did this and that. Regardless, he claimed most to all of us are "boosted" and our "ELO/MMR" is lower than it should be. Both these websites say I'm 4 points below the "average" to where I am. I really don't get the point of these websites, I mean I look at them to reconsider my build options, waht went wrong, what my AVG CS/KDA and etc but anything more than that. I thought Riot was the only ones who know my true MMR. I really do not think the guy who should have gone jungle would have done so bad, I mean everyone has bad games and most of us had him muted but we totally reported him so we all hope he gets his just dessert but it is a mere curiosity to why people use this websites and be like "Oh hey shit mid incoming" and try to make everyone tilt right away. Hell I've seen people have bad stats and then do well mid/late game cause of everyone else's influence in the game. I don't get it. Can someone explain please?

5 Comments

1 800 MID LANE4/4/2016, 3:31:56 AM4 votes

They're relatively accurate sites. I don't think you can get 100% accurate MMR from the Riot API, though, so in that respect, they just make relative guesses based on how other players do in your own rank.

I don't even bother looking people up on that crap pregame because all it does is screw with your head. Played against someone a while back and stomped him pretty hard. Turns out they were P2. Honestly, if I had seen that before, I would've been scared shitless to ever engage on the guy. Mentality is everything going into a game, as you really have nothing else to go by other than yourself saying you can/can't do it.

TL;DR Don't bother looking someone up before a match. It sets you up for disaster.

hh the thinker4/4/2016, 3:29:36 AM2 votes

they aren't that accurate really. they aren't too far off, but they don't it right on since riot has it hidden, it's basically a very good and close guess, but it is sometimes a bit off.

Taric the Gay4/4/2016, 3:48:20 AM2 votes

I like Football. I watch Football and I am not sure if you do but I do. And where I am going with this has to do with Head coaches. There are head coaches who go with their gut and head coaches who go by the numbers. The guy you are complaining about is going by the numbers. Stats say that this person has a history of losing so logic would deem this trend to repeat itself. But there is a saying in Football that states that "any given team can beat you on any given Sunday." So he's bound to be wrong at some point and the people who go with their gut feelings lose too. It's a mentality people go about the game which personally I think is a cop out. The guy probably got screwed over plenty of times in the past and looked for a way to beat out the odds. This website is his detector for bad teammates, but it isn't fool proof like he thinks it is. The way to go about the game is to be somewhere in between that gut feeling and numbers. Look it up, go in knowing that this person struggles with where they are but also go in knowing that you are where you want to be and that you can potentially pick up where this guy leaves off. There any many outside factors that influence a game from clutch plays to disconnects. You can't go in with a defeatist attitude and go in defaming someone you just met and expect them to do well. Because its a lose/lose situation doing that. They do poorly and they rage and swear at you where you get the victory of calling the outcome correctly but ultimately lose the game (the primary objective) or they do great and win in spite of you and in the end game you have to eat your words. So that's the bad part about those websites when people interpret it as law and not as a probability.

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