Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-24.128.211.62-20120802002044

For those saying that having a feeder doesn't matter as the other team should have one too, that's not true. I'm pretty fresh to Ranked, just started playing it a week ago and I'm the one who posted about it being hard to dig your way out as a support... That being said, I'm just short of 1400 ELO right now after less than 20 games. I have no issues carrying the game with some champs as long as my team doesn't have two or more feeders, but I can't truly say I can do it as a Support, especially with Ali, Shen, and such being banned most of the time.

However, something I did notice about the matching system is that it's not often equal in it's pairing, which brings me back to my original point. When I was just starting, I noticed that often times my teams ELO ranged from 1200 to 1280, while the opposing team ranged from 1270-1380. That's a difference of 100 ELO per player on each team, and the lower your ELO gets, the more likely you'll be with a team of intentional or unintentional feeders.

The good news is, that now I'm nearing Silver league and should be there if I win my next game, I'm getting teams that are fairly competant and on which I can do very well playing a more traditional support. I'm also seeing more pairings closer to my ELO on both teams instead of the disparity between teams that was seen prior.