re: Official League of Legends Thread

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Not if your Bronze III mid is facing a Plat V mid

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I agree, he will lose that lane. That doesn't happen, ie bronze vs plat in ranked.

The game has 4 phases, the 3 lanes + jungle. The more phases that are winning their respective match up, the higher the odds of winning, typically. Sometimes teams have early game comp's and fall off hard late game.

I've never played in bronze so I don't really know about "elo hell" but my smurf will be 30 soon so I may see then.

There was a really good article somewhere that basically explained pretty simply how the LOL matchmaking system worked. I don't know where it is, but in short it said if you think you are better than the people you are playing with / against (ie you should be going up in divisions) you mathematically have a better chance of winning the game, because you have already "won" 1/5th of the game due to your skill being superior. In an individual game this logic may be flawed, but over the course of say 100 games it makes sense. Your team only has the chance of having 4 "bad" players while the other has the chance to have 5 "bad" players.

Not saying it's perfect, but it makes sense - to me anyway.