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So usually my MMR range is between 2k - 2.4k. I've been 1 game away from being in masters a few times with D1 and 80+TP. I do believe I'm a masters level player, I am commonly in games with masters/gm players from previous splits and do just fine or even well against them. Yesterday I was a little over 2.1k MMR in D3, and had a bad day of games. I lost a few games in a row and dropped down to 2068 MMR and dropped to D4.
This is when I queue up and get in a game with a player who has played 2 ranked conquest games in their career prior to getting in my game and has 1945 MMR. Their account level is 60, and they picked Au Puch "carry". The game starts, this player buys double chalice, and meditation... that's it. I immediately know this player does not belong in this mid diamond game. I ask them in chat "you still have 900 gold to spend, why didn't you buy anything else? They didn't reply, and there was alot more I wanted to say but I was trying to work with the situation. Au puch gets first blooded on the first wave in duo lane, goes 0-11, deals 7k damage by the end of the game with a terrible build.
I look at his history when the game is over knowing it's gonna show me he didn't really belong in that game. What I find is this player has bought meditation for every single game of Smite they have ever played, the builds look like they are out of a random build generator. He's in Bronze3 for conquest with 1945 MMR for 2 wins, for ranked Joust he has 972 MMR.
The 2 games this player accidentally won to get in a mid diamond games builds were
Xing Tian - Reinforced boots, mystic mail, sold an item (black space) to buy hastened ring, and finish with Typhons fang. + 225 MMR for this game
Medusa - Reinforced boots, Ichival, hunters blessing 3rd item. +220 MMR for this game
I will post my smite guru link if you want to see it or don't believe me, I just didn't want to post it initially because I wanted the focus to be on why in the hell this player is in my mid diamond game, and not on the build/god selection etc of any of the other 9 players in the game which I know would be subsequently brought up.
1 game isn't the end of the world, and I know the game's ranks don't accurately depict player skill by any means, but I play ranked because it's generally more competitive than casuals and for the picks/bans. I've had this happen years ago when I was a plat/gold player because gold MMR is starting MMR for some reason.. but being a player in mid diamond, who's in games with masters constantly, this simply should not happen. MMR starting at 1500 and allowing players to get into mid diamond games after 2 wins is a joke.
And as a side note, this is also a reason why players Smurf. I know I could easily get into masters if I started a new account. You give players the opportunity to play at the highest level the game has to offer within 10 games of making a new account. Their rank may not show "masters" after 10 games but if their MMR goes up that much for a win all they have to do is win 5 games from a new account and then go 50/50 win/loss until they hit "masters". It's actually kind of a joke at this point.
I want more players to play ranked so we have better quality games, but current this system is so sh*t and is literally ruining games everyday because we are assuming all new accounts to be average players. Why is that? And why do we give them enough MMR to skip an entire division after a win?
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