Simple Questions, Simple Answers - Page 38

On January 03 2014 10:12 Simberto wrote:
It is actually even worse in LoL, since Matchmaking is actually not that bad at lower levels. But there are a lot fewer skilled people there.

So if you make a new character and win too much, there are 2 things that gradually happen. First, you start playing only with other smurfs. Now, a pretty large portion of those guys made a smurf either to stomp noobs or because their main got banned. Usually the climate in those games is horrible. However, most of those guys also aren't really good, just your average 30 guy. If you are actually good at the game, you will still keep on winning a lot of unenjoyable games, until you reach phase two. Where you suddenly have to wait 10+ minutes in queue for each game, because there simply are not enough lowlevel people at your MMR.

So ultimately there isn't really a point in doing that unless you need a second account for some reason, maybe to learn a completely new role that you never played before.

As others said, no matter how good you are, you will have ~50% winrate. That is just how the matchmaking works. If you are better, you have a 50~ winrate against better people, if you are worse, against worse people. The only situation where you might really have a problem is when you play in a group with multiple people of different skilllevels, because that tends to negatively influence the quality of the games you play.

If you want one suggestion for improving, don't play a different character every game. Choose one (preferably a good one) and stick to that one for at least 10 games, unless you really hate him (but then don't choose him). I would suggest longer, but people get bored. Try to play with a limited champion pool instead of a gigantic one, that is the best way to improve because you actually learn what that champion is capable of and how he works.