So I am currently plat 2 with a 53% wr and getting consistently ranked games with a large skill disparity in the teams. I’ve had multiple games now where a silver player makes their way into my ranked games. Normally I would assume that they must have some insane wr on their ACC and high mmr, only to find out that all except one instance are sub 50%. I don’t know how this is happening but it makes the games feel so random where my silver player will just get gapped hard and they don’t even know why they are in the game in the first place. (Yes my score in the first example is horrible, I was losing it at this point.)
My unfortunate top malph having to lane against someone an entire tier above him
unlucky ryze had to play against emerald 4 mid
he didn’t have a negative wr though
This game is just a mess when you look at rank, silver xerath had to play against me in plat 1
It’s a bit of both really. Matchmaking is turbo-garbage since border color is not a factor anymore so less people feel incline to play. So longer queues and a smaller pool to draw from so you get even less quality matches.
I stopped playing soloQ when as a plat 4 I got an iron 2 and the previous game got a caitlyn adc who ? ping me when I went roaming after her every recall as the support. She also never left bot lane and blamed me for not sticking with her 24/7. It’s then that I knew the skill disparity was all over the place this season. Worse than previous seasons. So now I waste my time in flexQ because it’s not taken as seriously and frankly I don’t see the difference between flex and soloq anymore.