There is a tolerance, also people who duo queue effect the Elo significantly.

If one person queues as 1000 and another duo queues as 1200, they both get treated as something like 1180 but show their true Elo, so it's tough to be completely positive without all the data.

Matchmaking has a tolerance for matchups. It just wants to get as close as possible in a reasonable amount of time, it's not trying to be perfect, which is good, becaue it'd take 40 minutes to find a game otherwise.

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Anyways, as has been said in countless other threads like this, after a certain amount of time in queue, the MM will start looking farther out in the Elo pool to find you a game faster. Riot has said time and again that this is working as intended, and that they will be improving MM as much as they can to get accurate matches, but they have no intention of ever restricting MM to only certain Elo ranges because they don't want 30-minute queue times.

Individual ranking in a team game.

Impossible to take seriously.

your rank is not a definite figure for how good you are, it changes. It goes up and down all the time. because you lost that against the 270 higher team your rank wont decrease by much and their rank wont increase by much but if you had of won it you would have gone up a lot! the rank system is trying to find an equilibrium and eventually you will be sitting at your exact skill level. However you will always occasionally go against harder opponents because if you didn't you would never rise up the ranks or you would do it incredibly slowly. The current system may not always be fair but it will get you where you need to be faster and always give you space for development.

PLEAse take out duel que