Can riot explain loss streaks?

DropFill·1/12/2015, 4:35:06 AM·3 votes·3,053 views

Seriously, EVERY SINGLE TIME I win a lot of matches in a row, I know a disaster will soon happen. After a single loss, It seems like EVERY SINGLE GAME is on ultra-hard mode. I can't win, doesn't matter if I win lane, win others lanes for my team, ward and stuff.

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TenderTouches1/12/2015, 4:41:17 AM2 votes

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Gym Leader Yaki1/12/2015, 4:06:41 PM2 votes

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Seriously, EVERY SINGLE TIME I win a lot of matches in a row, I know a disaster will soon happen. After a single loss, It seems like EVERY SINGLE GAME is on ultra-hard mode. I can't win, doesn't matter if I win lane, win others lanes for my team, ward and stuff.

Loss streaks can be explained by many things. The most common reason is playing on frustration or loss of motivation. You even said it yourself, you can feel the losses coming, resulting in you loosing motivation to analyze the game as you would normally do and loose games more often. This could also mean you feel frustrated and are tempted to make riskier plays. Failing those plays would put you in a great disadvantage, something you would not normally do.

You could also be placed against higher leveled people who are duo'ing with lower levels, or you just having a bad day. Just make sure you take breaks if you noticed you loosing a lot of games. It might help :) Promise.

Leti the Yeti1/12/2015, 4:41:05 AM1 votes

holy shit, I made a post about that juuuuust yesterday ;l

AMYS GRAVE1/12/2015, 5:11:36 AM1 votes

i've noticed this too, unfortunately their matchmaking queue does this. i think it has something to do with the fact that it overcompensates for winning streaks/losing streaks. so if you win a few games in a row you will likely be hit harder, then you will be blessed even harder, then you will be hit even harder yet and so on and so on. if you do manage to win a hard game or lose an easy game then i think that stabilizes the match making somewhat but it could really use a little work.

vortical421/12/2015, 2:12:19 PM1 votes

I think we have all seen this. Riot will not talk about the specifics of how match making works so it is hard to say wether this is actually happening or just a trick of perception. My guess is that the system doesn't account properly for the difference between average team MMR and individual MMR. The system sees you are on a hot streak and starts giving you better opponents to see if you deserve to advance. In a 1v1 game that would be the correct solution. In a team game like LoL it causes lopsided matches.