

You get hardcore smurfs that will destroy you. I've played in Bronze, Silver and Gold and there is a difference between all 3.īronze - Can hard carry with Reyna, Phoenix, Jett or Raze. It would take most of them literal days of in game time played just to get their visual rank to finally match their skill. Now imagine someone who is just plat or diamond level skill without godlike reactions doing this. It took a top tier player 15 hours just to get past plat. Other examples are ItzTimmy in Apex (different game, similar problem) doing his 50 hour run from Bronze to Pred.


Riot's revamped matchmaking system has been around for a while so there is plenty of threads on it in the LoL sub. So the solution is to make a ranked system that is always lagging behind visually and also gets soft reset. People tend to stop playing more when they truly plateau on their rank which means less chances to impulse buy new skins. Riot shifted away from a better pure Elo system in 2013 to a smoke and mirrors hidden MMR carrot on a stick system because it MAKES THEM MORE MONEY. Even getting past Diamond can be a slow grind for him. Yet each new account takes him 2K+ games to make his visual rank finally line up with hisĬhallenger skill. Proven to be Challenger level skill over and over again. I mean you can take Tyler1 in LoL as an example. The system knows your actual rank far before it gives it to you. More than should be needed for a video game. Will you hit your true rank eventually? Yes but only if you have an absurd amount of free time to dedicate to it.
