I started playing LoL about 4 days ago, so obviously I'm not an amazing player yet. That being said, I figured out on the first day that you don't repeatedly charge into enemy champs, you pretty much always try and lane up evenly, and in the team battle phase you try and stay together. So far today I've played 6 games as Fiddlesticks, and I've lost 5 of them. A few of these losses came from people on our team leaving early on, but 2 of the losses were caused by players on my team feeding other champs nonstop and then refusing to stick together end game. I managed to maintain a positive kill/death ratio through the 5 losses but having to surrender every game is really getting old. Does the matchmaking system get any better as I get to be a higher level? Is there any way to fill a leaver spot when someone disconnects early on? Does anyone have experience with losing constantly as a low level that can confirm that it does, in fact, get better later on? I love the playstyle of LoL but if I'm relegated to losing the majority of the games I play throughout later levels then I may reconsider getting into it.

Really the only way to solve your problem is to go in with a premade team.

Matchmaking balances out after a game of 100-200. It takes a while, and even then you'll find bad people once in a while. Tho its probably better to say 'people who are having a bad game' as theyre most likeley equally good.

Does the matchmaking system get any better as I get to be a higher level?
kinda, but not really.



Is there any way to fill a leaver spot when someone disconnects early on?
don't believe there is.


Does anyone have experience with losing constantly as a low level that can confirm that it does, in fact, get better later on?
Matchmaking is all luck, even at higher levels there are idiots so it depends.

Appreciate the responses guys. I played a few more games and won all of them, so I guess it really comes down to luck as most of you have pointed out. Guess I need to start finding good people to que with.

Once you're past lvl 20-25 or so you should find matchmaking to work very well. its actually a brilliant system, it just has a lot of data to sift through at lower levels. @Santos L Helper, you need to play more, you're still at a volatile ELO level.