User blog comment:Bachoru/Ranked games: (more than) just a fancy champion select?/@comment-3358335-20110722165939/@comment-4199297-20110725144639

Bachoru: matchmaking just looks at Elo, not at skill, so if your Elo is lower than your skill, matchmaking should make your team the better one, since it mistakes you as Elo == skill, so less skilled than you really are... ;) IIRC when Saintvicious got set to 1 Elo by that hacker, he got paired with 300-400 Elo players vs 200-300 Elo players because matchmaking thought that would balance total Elo numbers of both teams nicely...