first match provisonals vrs gold 5 won with no deaths and we slaughted them whats this mean for me?

Going Mid kat·10/19/2016, 10:14:22 AM·1 votes·681 views

so game one in provs I beat 2 gold 5's in norms I play with plat players non stop and now playign aginst gold in ranked for first match is this a good thing for me?

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Ego Killer10/19/2016, 10:24:59 AM2 votes

Reviewing the game stats you only had 6/31 kill participation. Seeing as your mid went 16/3, adc went 9/1 and your top went 9/4, I wouldn't put too much weight on this victory. Also, only 8 wards in a 24 minute game? That's a little below average and generally tells me that you were clearly steamrolling their team, or should I say your lanes were steamrolling them.

I am not discounting your victory, you are probably a really good player, but one game, especially on where you do not seem to have been a key component to the victory, does not tell us much.

Also your normal mmr and ranked mmr are not always similar. I often get matched against silvers and bronze players in normals even though I have a low-mid plat mmr in ranked. Normals are kind of a poisonous place to get data from as there are too many variables to account for, like when people try new champs or play roles they are not familiar with.

TLDR: I'm sure you're a great player and have a lot of potential BUT one game isn't enough to go off of, especially one where your kill/part is so low. Normals are also not a great litmus test for your elo range and the two queues have separate MMR systems.

Going Mid kat10/19/2016, 10:38:53 AM1 votes
Ego Killer10/19/2016, 10:42:15 AM1 votes

Even if that's true, it only shows that you were nonexistent later in the game. Remember, your team got 31 kills, you were only part of 6 of those in a 24 minute game. If you are trying to make the argument that there "wasn't much fighting going on" then I am going to have to disagree with you. In higher elo, 31 kills TOTAL (including both sides) in 24 minutes is rare unless there is a CLEAR skill imbalance evident. The fact that there was 31 kills on ONE team completely disproves your statement.

Now, even if we accept the argument that there wasn't much fighting going on to be true, we must assume you won off of map rotations and objective based play. This would be a decent argument for your skill IF you had more wards placed as rotations require good vision, that is IF the other team is competent. Your team took 9 whole towers while the other took only a single tower in 24 minutes. A clear skill-gap to be sure, but this doesn't necessarily speak to YOUR skill but rather to their incompetence, especially with the very little vision you had on the map.

Like I said, this it's only one game, so it's pretty hard to say anything. Small sample sizes do not make for good data my friend.