How does MMR work in normals?
I sometimes play with my friends and our ranks are:
normally 1 Gold (me), 1 Diamond, 1 Platinum and 2 Silver.
We often get teams with one solo player (not premade with the others) that is unranked or low bronze) and he gets absolutely destroyed.
How does our MMR from Rankeds come into play in Normals?
Does it come into play at all? Do we have different MMR for Normals/Rankeds?
Is it just random?
Best Answer
You have a MMR for each different queue: normal 5, normal 3, aram, dominion, ranked 5, team ranked 5, team ranked 3, and I believe team builder also has a separate number.
So when you queue up with your friend, the game takes the average MMR of your team, and matches it against another team with the same average MMR. If your players haven't played a lot of normals, your MMR won't be high and you'll be matched against lower level players, or players having played as few games as you. If you keep playing normals, you'll end up playing against better and better players, as your MMR rises.
The only place where your MMR from other queues is taken into account is when you're playing team ranked 5/3. IE, a team of 5 bronze players having never played ranked team and going 5-0 in placement will be placed in silver, wile a team full of diamonds having never played ranked teams and going 5-0 will be placed in gold.
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Answer 2
I am not 100% sure how it works, but I have a theory:
The matchmaking for rankeds tries longer to match the same MMR of each member. (Thats why high elo players have really long queue times for rankeds)
The matchmaking for normals just gets a bunch of people that just queued up and trys to even out the average MMR of the teams. This way you wont have long queue times. Premade teams also "increase" the MMR for this specific match.
Answer 3
There seems to be confusion between MMR and ELO as I am reading in the comments. Look up what ELO is, it's a number that determines your relative skill level. This system has been in place for competitive games for a long, long time. In League, there was a time that it was shown, and now it's not. ELO = MMR (Match Making Rating). Your Match Making Rating is a number that (surprise) shows your relative skill level! They are synonyms. LP is different. There is NO WAY to know your TRUE ELO/MMR. Sites like na.op.gg, as someone mentioned, is NOT affiliated with RIOT. They calculate an ELO/MMR with THEIR OWN ALGORITHM. Regardless of how ACCURATE it is, it is not official.
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