ex high Master player here, started in e3 and slowly climbed back to diamond 4 with 65%wr. (writing this so silver redditors wont say that my deserved rank is actually emerald and im elo inflated). I played 70+ games right now and around %70 of games the rank balance is non existent. There are last split diamond, emerald, master and grandmaster players all mixed in the lobby most games. Which makes the game extremely one sided and luck based without a duo. The thing i noticed is that there are also lots of players that are unranked last split that just started to play again and they are performing -2 ranks below. Throw these people in too and every game feels extremely coinflip. Its so cringe when i get a teammate that doesnt know junglers dont need leash anymore play against an ex grandmaster player who solokills them 10 times. Soloq will probably be in this state for close to 1 month until everyone settles in their actual rank. If you feel that matchmaking is unbalanced, dont listen to low elo redditors that tell you actually deserve your current rank. This will probably be good for high elo game quality in the long run since there will be less elo inflated players swarming in 0lp master. But right now soloq is extremely frustrating in emerald+. If you share this experience you are not alone.
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