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How to raise MRR?

Zoz0·7/23/2015, 12:38:58 PM·1 votes·1,046 views

I recently dropped from Gold V to silver II.

A pretty big drop in which required a lot of losses. Some of them I deserved, most of them I tried my best but my team let me down. And now I've realized my MRR is absolute shit, and because of that, I'm being paired with people that make more mistakes than I do. It's hard to win when your team is making mistakes that you can't fix. Because I've been playing with Golds and now I'm playing with low silvers, I notice more mistakes and it makes me cringe. I know I do not belong down here and I'm trying very hard to fix my win/loss.

Currently, it is: Win: 87 Loss: 111

Does anyone have any tips on how to win more games? I main mid and support if Mid is taken. Most of the times, I play Ahri and I keep my lane under controll and go postive in score and get good CS. Roaming is a bit difficult for me, but I've been adapting and helping out. I just really need some tips. I feel like my losses are my teams fault because, I don't die that much, I keep a positive attitude (yet they bash and yell at each other), I ward, upgrade trinket, I keep my team alert to when dragon is coming up, etc.

I would like to know how to help my team out and carry myself out of this horrid MRR. Pls

14 Comments

Strat7/23/2015, 1:05:35 PM1 votes

It's MMR - Match Making Rating.

The best way to raise you MMR is by playing better. Stop blaming your team - there are some games that aren't controllable, but the vast majority of them have plenty of ways you can win, even as a support player. There's always something you can do better, especially in low Elo.

People in your Elo literally don't know the basics of the game. If you can't dominate them, then that means you don't understand the basics of the game. Study up and revise things by watching YouTube videos on basic LoL skills and mechanics. You'll probably be surprised to find out that there are a bunch of things you're not even aware of.

KirynDawn7/23/2015, 1:25:20 PM1 votes

I was in the same exact boat. What I did was just kept playing and I dropped so far I could hard carry again. Once I was able to hard carry again I was able to get hot streaks and raise my mmr to get better teammates and my win/loss ratio improved.

Probably not the best advice (drop to climb). but its what I did when I was in this position

joebobby14127/23/2015, 5:06:24 PM1 votes

To raise MMR you just need to win more. I know it's not that easy, but it is that simple. Honestly, asking for broad "game winning" tips, isn't going to get you anything. If you asked more specific things, people could go into more detail. For example: you mention maining Ahri, ask for tips on build/match ups/power spikes, or how you are starting to roam more ask for tips on when and where you should be roaming.

It's great that you keep a positive attitude in your games, but you have to recognize that every loss is partially your fault. Maybe you aren't the main contributor, but you are part of the team and the team wins or loses together. It's okay to acknowledge other people's mistakes, but you have to try to acknowledge your own as well. Ask a friend to spectate a game and point out mistakes you make, take this criticism not as a "wow, you are so bad." but as a "these are the things you can improve on".

colesy7/23/2015, 6:42:06 PM1 votes

no, your losses are not your team's fault. people are in their MMR because they belong in their MMR. if your team is getting caught out, tell them to try to not get caught out. ping objectives. ping MIA (even for other lanes), even discuss strategy in close games (like tell player x to focus player y in next team fight etc.). then there's just stuff like farming well, making sure your itemisation is on point and roaming. the big thing to note about higher divisions is that you'll see that players roam like crazy in the laning phase. you'll see streamers playing in top lane walk to their lane and then a nautilus support walks out of their brush, locks them in place and they give up a kill. you'll see a bot lane kill one of their opponents and then the rest of the opposing team will all collapse on the bot lane who snagged that kill and they'll get two themselves and then probably a dragon off of it and maybe a tower or two.

Matthias91197/24/2015, 1:55:38 AM1 votes

MMR.

I'm being paired with people that make more mistakes than I do. It's hard to win when your team is making mistakes that you can't fix.

Although this is true, your opponents are also those same people, and there are 5 of them and only 4 of your teammates. Statistically, your team should be better simply because it only has four of "them" on it -- plus you.

You may get the occasional teammate who makes so many mistakes (or just AFKs out) that you can't win. But if you're really a Gold-tier player you should be doing a lot more than just "I don't die that much" against mid-Silver players. You should be handily winning your lane almost every game, then roaming and putting massive pressure on the other lanes too. If you can't do that consistently, then I hate to break it to you -- but you're not as good as you think you are.

Mannysmoker7/24/2015, 1:56:31 AM1 votes

Try to keep your win rate above 50% most of the times and ur MMR gonna go up..