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.

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Posted by dcrews

Houston, TX

Member since Feb 2011

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Posted on 8/6/14 at 11:26 am to HoustonsTiger

I see what you're saying, but it would make the most sense just to be playing against your respective tier (+/- 1).

I'm Silver V. I don't mind playing against Silver IV's and III's (or even II or I). But there is no reason for me to playing against a team with 2+ gold players and certainly no reason for the opposing team to have a Plat or higher.

If you're Silver III, you should play against Silver III. If you win, it moves you up since clearly you are better than Silver III and it moves the others down since they aren't better than silver III.

You'll eventually get to a point where you'll start losing. You've hit your plateau (until you get better).

The point at which you stagnate is where you belong until you get better and start moving up again.

I'll play anyone, any rank, any time. I can make do in my lane and survive. I may not carry, but I 100% will not feed.

Just isn't any fun when you can win your lane (or go even), but you have to surrender at 25-30 mins because a Bronze player got stuck against the arbitrary Plat V or Gold I player the other team has.

It is what it is. I've just noticed it happening in increased occurrences lately.

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