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Serious Matchmaking Question

Moneymonster7·9/19/2016, 11:22:22 PM·1 votes·567 views
League of Legends Match History

I am currently in my series to get into Silver 1. My goal for the end of the season is Gold. I admit that in some games, it doesn't look like I deserve it at all. I need to be more consistent. However, after winning my first game of the series convincingly, I just lost convincingly. And while I am trying to refrain from the blame game, I have to play it here.

I've included a link to the game in my match history. I am aware my score looks painfully awful, and it is. I definitely made some obvious mistakes, I admit that. I definitely could have played better by not being so greedy for farm, trying to defend towers solo, and just generally just being way too far up.

But here's my matchmaking question. This game consisted of 4 low gold-ranked players and one high silver-ranked player on the other team. My team consisted of 3 high silver-ranked players, and two players who were new to ranked. I don't mean they played like they were new, though they did. They were literally brand new to ranked. One was a Lux mid who had only played one ranked game ever previously and had gone 1/9 in that game, the other was a Kindred who did equally as awful in their previous few (under 5) ranked games. Both were unranked. And they both displayed what looked like sub-Silver gameplay to me. Yes, I may be biased because their lack of pressure was a large factor in a loss that I had in my series, but I seriously question this.

Why in the world would Riot match up 4 golds and a silver up against two new unranked players and 3 silvers? I don't see how that makes sense, unless the MMR of each of those accounts/players were even. But they weren't. I checked. The MMR's (according to na.op.gg) were consistently significantly higher for the other team than the MMR's of the players on my team. How did this make sense to Riot to create this match? I'm not whining and complaining, though it may sound like it. I seriously want to know why this specific match was created.

2 Comments

Brutalitops019/19/2016, 11:41:13 PM1 votes

The game tries to match you up based on your MMR, not your actual rank. MMR stands for Matchmaking Rating, and it's basically what skill level you should be at. For example, I'm bronze, yet I have extremely high normal MMR and often find myself with gold or even plat players in normal games, where my ranked MMR is around silver 5, so I'm often matched with and against mid-low silver players. Instead of blaming matchmaking for why you lost, take a look at your mistakes and try to fix them. You admitted that you made a few, and admitting them and not doing them in future games is how you climb. If you truly deserved to win that game, you would've won it even with the gold players on the enemy team because they have a similar MMR to yours, meaning that they deserve that gold rating about as much as you do. You are the only factor you can influence, so it makes 0 sense to blame the matchmaking system or your teammates. YOU play better, YOU earn yourself that gold, YOU want it, so fix YOUR mistakes until you're good enough to reach it. You are the ONLY factor in the games that you play that you can influence. I can certainly recommend to record your games using OBS or another recording program, watching them back will help you see some things that may have looked like they were good ideas at the time, but then when you watch them back you think "what in the world was I thinking?"