Started a solo/duo game and thought this matchmaking looked very weird to start. Why are there two platinum players in a silver game? Even if their winrate isn’t that high. Figured maybe the mordekaiser is a smurf but doubted it when I looked at his stats and low and behold he told us he’s scared to go top, because there’s a plat yone waiting for him.
He ends up having an awful game where he goes 0/8 against the yone. Told us this was his second day playing ranked and he didn’t know the game would be this hard. Is this just how Riot treats new players nowadays? This is going to discourage him from playing completely. We didn’t flame him at all and even tried to help here and there by lane switching, but I know there’s a lot of players out there who’d be throwing all kinds of slurs at him. We just ended up surrendering at 15 minutes in the end.
The guy was completely terrified going top when Janna started talking about the weird matchmaking and I’m sure he did not enjoy this game at all…I get that smurfs are a problem that needs to be tackled, but this just feels wrong. The guy was completely terrified going top when Janna started talking about the weird matchmaking and ended up asking us multiple time to please not flame or report him. I’m sure he did not enjoy this game at all and this must’ve been an absolute turn off from trying out League any further.
If this is how newcomers are treated the game is going to die out really quick is all I’m going to say…
P.S. I’ve tried reaching out to him to give him some encouraging kind words btw, maybe play a normal with him, but he hasn’t accepted my friend request yet.
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They are actively making the game more and more unbearable. It’s actually hilarious.
Yes. Get new players, smurfs on win/mvp streaking placements, derankers with 0% win rate, and everything in between in games with plat players
Not necessarily, I’m pretty sure they start the MMR for new accounts at Gold level and then adjust based on the games played.
So yes this will really suck for new players because they’ll likely get stomped in their first 20 or so ranked games while the idea is that smurf accounts should go up or land in whatever rank they are.
This is why people start smurf accounts to escape elo hell /hardstuck elo because if you get lucky you can shoot up to a rank or two above your other accounts rank in like 20 games as opposed to 200 games.
I think this issue is compounded by the fact that the MMR based matchmaking system is incredibly funky since this season 13 start IMO. I’ve never seen so many games with Gold/Plat and Iron/Bronze in the same games. I’ve come across multiple “Plat 4” players who seem to be playing in silver MMR in every ranked game even without a duo. Had a poor 100 game Iron player had to go against a Gold 2 in lane and ask “why do I have to play against a gold player”
They seem to make no effort to bring visible rank in line with MMR anymore, like by making Plat play against Plat and drop rank if they can’t keep up, instead they just let them have Plat rank but permanently play with and against silver and bronze players, and constantly put Irons against Golds, it’s so bizarre considering Bronze - Gold has the highest number of players so it shouldn’t be a match finding issue.
lol the worst part is that literally everything we know about ranked and matchmaking is extrapolation based on observation. Nothing from Riot. Just, 0 clarity, plus they now actively shut down websites that show any sort of MMR.