High Elo Matchmaking Struggles
What seems to be the norm as of right now (in the early season), is a compressing of 3 tiers. Diamond, Master and Challenger players are all playing in the same mix. Previously, I would never get Diamonds and if I did it would be the odd Diamond 1 player every now and then. As an actual Challenger player, I get incredibly anchored every single time I get autofilled into a role where I'm not impactful - namely, support. The reason as to why this is terrible and why the Diamond player on jungle should fill is simple. The other side also has a Challenger amongst 4 Diamonds. He has his main role.
It's so incredibly difficult telling a Diamond player that you are just objectively better and therefore should have the role without them having their ego threatened. Even if it's with the best interest of the team in mind, these players' attitudes are just the opposite being conducive to a win. I have ridiculous difficulty with these disgusting attitudes and have actually started to retaliate because it's just too much to have to suffer through a string of games with these players.
Therefore, I suggest that MMR also be taken into account when selecting roles. I always get the fool who thinks that he should jungle because he can't support. I'm in the same boat, but I happen to be a Challenger player. This sounds incredibly pretentious but how else am I supposed to argue for my role. These people have no respect for the rank! If the other team didn't also harbour a good player then I wouldn't care, but they always do! How the hell is a Diamond 3 Shyvana main going to fare vs Grigne's Reksai or a Diamond 5 Midlaner vs Pekin Woof? They get absolutely stomped and I'm here on Nami just losing my mind.
Another problem would be the Diamond border Challenger players. The problem with early season Challenger is that there are no obstacles in the way for Diamond players to get to Challenger. There are no Master tiers/Challenger tiers or at least not many that happen to start above them. We all start in Plat 1 at max, and most of the actual good players get anchored by Diamonds.
Therefore, I suggest that Master (not the Master 0 LP boosted players) and Challenger players get to start a little higher so that we can reclaim our spots. There are way too many insignificant players that have diamond borders with like 300+ LP. Who are these people? How did they get to my elo but play vastly worse? Why should I have to wait for them to drop out...
The health of the NA Challenger scene get so desecrated when you allow for Diamonds to get up there. They're literally playing against other Diamond players but getting to Challenger elo. I get that a fix would be hard, but I would appreciate an attempt to benefit the health of your jacket winners' soloq experiences.
We are supposed to be the most competitive and top players. I can't practice properly or prevent myself from raging if I'm constantly getting both autofilled as well as playing with D5 last season players. Sometimes, I'd even get a platinum last season player who's like D3 now. Did they improve in 2 weeks? No! It's just so easy for these fools to climb because their MMR doesn't get destroyed early on like it should.
Just clamp them. Honestly just clamp. remember clamping? Hit the Plats/Diamonds with LP clamping in Plat 1 so you stop them from going up for like a month. A month should be good enough at the start of the season. Actual good players get to breeze through Plat 1 and regain their spots so they can play against each other and not with the Diamonds. Make each game a little more balanced in tiers and not extreme ends of the spectrum i.e Challenger with a Plat 2. I don't care if I have to wait incredibly long times, I just want a quality game for once.
I'm sure that there are many flaws in my arguments, but I'm writing this as I'm thinking about it. Perhaps in the future I can present a better case with better solutions. However, I'm incredibly frustrated and have typed more in 2 weeks than I have in the previous 2 years. The reason why is because these Diamond players are just so incredibly ignorant, provoking and incompetent. I hate getting them in my games and I hate when I lose LP because of them when I normally would NEVER get them.
Challengers are the minority here. I get that you'd want to target the masses, but do us a solid yeah? Please. Everyone automatically views me as a pretentious, egotistical bastard when I talk about matchmaking but I really just want to be able to play this game properly and actually practice. Every game I walk into, if there's a lower ranked player (Diamond or otherwise), there's a big expectation on us and a ton of flame/provoking just because they have the opportunity. I'm sick of it. I can't play normal games or ARAMs and now I can't even play Ranked without this terrible environment.
You cant expect every Challenger player to be mature enough to just mute, report and move on. It will be hard for us if we get numerous games strung together where the exact same experience occurs. It's just mind-numbing and honestly, in my opinion, unnecessary. Please try to rectify the early season rank system in Season 8.
