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So here's my 2 cents nobody asked for on a topic that's been talked to death. I'm aware Riot is looking for someone to pick up responsibility for competitive, but at least I can have the hope that if someone sees this they can make the suggestion for this to not be a possibility when someone gets around to fixing it.
Been on a bit of winning streak and have been playing decently well and right before I queued this game I ranked back to D1. My only assumption is that the enemy team had a high ranked player in a large stack of golds which is why myself, a solo queuing D1 got into this lobby to match the disparity. I understand the logic if that was the case but my gripe is that I shouldn't be put into a situation where if I dont heavily frag out or win by a decent margin I'm bound to lose a reasonable to a great amount of elo. If I was placed into a game with other plats it wouldn't be an issue, theres not much of a difference between high plat - low diamond anyway and someone always has to have the highest elo. However, I believe everyone should be match made into a lobby where everyone has the opportunity to gain a high amount of elo, not carry or derank.
I've played a lot of games where theres been a couple people with a much lower rank, this is fine as the rest of the team is capable of picking up the slack. But to have a game found ranging from gold to diamond there should at least be some plats in there to smooth out the skill curve. Anyones opinion on this including outright disagreeing with me would be welcome to form a more concise dialogue on the problems with matchmaking.
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