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Miku Lv99·11/21/2014, 7:22:36 PM·1 votes·859 views

I think I've figured out something about how MMR works. You gain less when you duo with people worse than you and also lose more when you lose when you duo with people worse than you. Meaning that, if you want to get a good win percentage, it actually does pay to keep duoing with people worse than you and it'll hurt your win percentage if you duo with people better than you. Don't believe it? Check this out:

I have 106 more ranked wins than losses this season. So you're probably expecting me to be diamond or higher right? Nope, I'm only gold III. And I've almost never dodged or gotten decay from inactivity. You think I'm just a special case? Well also consider this. My main duo partner that I've played oh so many ranked games with this season has a whopping 80 more losses than wins. So you expect him to be bronze right? Again, wrong. He's actually in silver.

Thinking about this, it really does make sense that it would work that way. Tbh, if you're way better than everyone else in your game, then you really don't likely learn much from it, regardless of the outcome of the game. But if you're way worse than the other players in your game, there's a world of good knowledge for you to gain from the game, little matter whether you win or lose.

5 Comments

PentaSho11/21/2014, 7:31:55 PM1 votes

You have 106 more wins than losses but how many games total have you played...

Grimspeake11/21/2014, 7:35:50 PM1 votes

how does your partner lose games while u win? something doesnt add up i think its the soloq games that make the difference

Grimspeake11/21/2014, 7:41:55 PM1 votes

i have lost about 34 times and won like 24 lol

Miku Lv9911/21/2014, 8:08:33 PM1 votes

It's not my partner loses while I win. It's my partner is stuck at an inflated mmr from the wins with me and loses the solo games he plays or duo games with other players. And my mmr is deflated from our duo games and then I get lots of wins when I go back to solo queue.

I think I've played like 1771 games this season. But in any case, that should be irrelevant. If you're equal to the average mmr in your games, you should gain as much for a win as you lose for a loss. As in, if you don't duo queue, you should get back to where you were before, on average, for each 2 games you play that result in one win and one loss. If you look at other players that have played lots of games, they're all (that I can find anyway) a good bit higher than gold 3 if they have nearly 106 more wins than losses.