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Jozrael · 12-20-2009, 07:32 AM

Well, if you're playing big premades (5 man especially), you get a boost to your effective Elo, meaning you face much tougher opponents. Also, if any of you guys have big differences in your Elos, the anti-smurf mechanic kicks in. Basically the lower player gets a several hundred point boost to their Elo (because the matchmaker doesn't want to give a team the capability to tank their Elo with smurfs for easy wins). This means your average Elo is WAY higher than it should be, and generally you get stomped. If you play enough of these games, your Elo will drop to the point where you are underrated. When you go to play solo queue, you get much easier games than you should be (90% win ratio is unheard of except at the very top .5% of players, so matchmaking definitely has you misjudged).

Thanks for the well wishes. I liked AP Sion when he was FotW, didn't play him too much afterwards. Never played phys Sion.

12-20-2009, 07:32 AM	#149 (permalink)
Jozrael Junkie	Well, if you're playing big premades (5 man especially), you get a boost to your effective Elo, meaning you face much tougher opponents. Also, if any of you guys have big differences in your Elos, the anti-smurf mechanic kicks in. Basically the lower player gets a several hundred point boost to their Elo (because the matchmaker doesn't want to give a team the capability to tank their Elo with smurfs for easy wins). This means your average Elo is WAY higher than it should be, and generally you get stomped. If you play enough of these games, your Elo will drop to the point where you are underrated. When you go to play solo queue, you get much easier games than you should be (90% win ratio is unheard of except at the very top .5% of players, so matchmaking definitely has you misjudged). Thanks for the well wishes. I liked AP Sion when he was FotW, didn't play him too much afterwards. Never played phys Sion.