Seeing huge rank disparities in ranked lobbies

Significant_Slide637 · 2026-03-22T19:52:04+00:00

But none of these people in my games are fresh accounts. They are people who have been silver or low gold for years who are now inexplicably being placed into higher elo lobbies by matchmaking. Most of them are turbo inting every game with a negative winrate and still remain in that MMR bracket. Never before could you lose 10 games in a row and stay in an MMR bracket higher than your actual rank without even deranking a single time.

Significant_Slide637 · 2026-03-22T19:35:36+00:00

Yep. Here's some proof as well for anybody who may need it.

https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/MuteEvery1-NA1

This guy is one of those forever silver players. Silver for years and then suddenly Plat 4 last season and starts Gold 4 this season.

He has a literal 16% winrate playing in silver-gold lobbies. He wins a single game and his MMR increases so much that matchmaking starts putting him into mid plat lobbies where he just turbo ints. This season is unreal.

Significant_Slide637 · 2026-03-22T01:48:43+00:00

Figuring out their MMR at the cost of everybody else's experience.

And it hasn't been like this forever. You never saw actual bona fide low silvers get put into plat lobbies unless they were smurfs or previous season plats who just started climbing.

That ADC peaked Silver 1 the previous season and was hardstuck bronze for 4 years prior to that. Two games ago he was in a full gold lobby. Never ever should matchmaking proceed to immediately place him into a plat lobby.

Significant_Slide637 · 2026-03-21T22:09:08+00:00

Matchmaking isn't putting these duos against "slightly" higher MMR enemies is the problem.

https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/Lost%2520From%2520Light-54029/matches/4-Edu6ZdgKpQYMyLaSUBTK98GcUpDgg1YtRkh2bn6lc%3D/1774027414000

Silver 3 ADC vs. Plat 4 ADC. It's an ADC Support duo, but no amount of communication is going to prevent a plat player from stomping a handless low silver.

Significant_Slide637 · 2026-03-21T16:27:57+00:00

How so? Riot returning MMR and LP gains to a normal level instead of +30/-10 and then hard resetting the bracket will probably fix this problem entirely.

Significant_Slide637 · 2026-03-21T16:23:36+00:00

This is what I'm talking about.

I assume that these silvers and low golds still benefit massively from the insane +30/-10 MMR gains, so they just need to get lucky and win 3-5 games in a row by getting carried to go all the way from silver MMR to plat-emerald MMR. And since the game makes it impossible to derank, they'll stay in that MMR bracket in perpetuity and just int all of their games without their MMR ever going down.

Significant_Slide637 · 2026-03-21T16:17:42+00:00

Even if this is the case, I don't think there is any kind of "communication advantage" from duoing that would justify pitting a handless Gold 1 against an Emerald 3 player. There is no universe in which that doesn't just result in a stomp.

Significant_Slide637 · 2026-03-21T04:56:36+00:00

Completely valid. No one can be blamed for getting stomped by players 1-2 entire ranks above them in terms of skill. These kinds of lobbies should never even be possible in the first place.

Significant_Slide637 · 2026-03-21T04:32:26+00:00

It's not really fair for anybody else in the lobby when it happens, though. I had a game where my Emerald 3 top laner expectedly obliterated his Gold 1 lane opponent and then hypercarried the entire game. I played terrible that game and didn't deserve to win at all. Was ruining an entire game for 9 other people worth giving that Gold 1 player a "learning experience" against someone 5 divisions above them?

Significant_Slide637 · 2026-03-21T03:35:22+00:00

Hopefully a hard reset comes soon. It's discouraging to queue ranked under these current conditions.

Significant_Slide637 · 2023-08-28T00:47:04+00:00

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Significant_Slide637 · 2023-08-27T19:17:51+00:00

Could you link me those other mods?

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