Famous solo queue League of Legends player Dopa has come out criticizing how Riot handles their ranked system, translated by reddit user Yoonitrop12 saying " It’s been 3 seasons since the introduction of fresh accounts. Those accounts get high normals MMR, which affects their ranked MMR". This appears to be a MMR exploit. He further explains that rank is not a true reflection of skill anymore. "I mean, look at hide on bush. You think that Faker’s rank represents his skill"? To make matters worse, infamous jungler Tarzaned revealed in a video from 2021 that players can create their own "Pro Riot MMR account" by playing normals, often with high MMR friends, which will boost your own normals MMR, which transfers to your ranked MMR.  

Friend handleveled a new account to 30 to see how broken fresh accounts are in Season 11. Here was the result. 17 games in while going 10-7 -> Gold 2 and -5 LP per loss

https://twitter.com/loltarzaned/status/1362091813306253315?lang=en — Tarzaned (@lolTarzaned) Feb 17, 2021

Popular LoL streamer IWDominate also commented on this phenomina in 2021  

Something needs to be done about the whole normal game MMR system abuse. The whole point of no Duo Master+ was to make the ladder more competitive but now the entire ladder is just filled with people who abuse the normal game MMR bug and are effectively duoing in Master+

https://twitter.com/iwdominatelol/status/1369758807535087616 — Christian Rivera (@IWillDominateLoL) March 10, 2021

In 2021, Mark Yetter, former game design director for LoL tweeted out:  

Update on the riot granted accounts that we give to pros moving to new regions: -The accounts made in 2021 had an MMR issue giving them unfair gains (too high) compared to the rest of the ladder. We're disabling these accounts and giving fresh ones (with correct MMR)

https://twitter.com/MarkYetter/status/1369112949340573697 — Mark Yetter (@MarkYetter) March 8, 2021

Although this tweet addresses problems with pro accounts specifically, there was no mention of accounts which have been boosted by inflated normals MMR ratings.

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