I hope I'm not feeding the troll by responding ... but trolls will be trolls ... I don't think it's perception at all. There has been massive discussion on the ranking system. Please google "elo ranking system" for the wikipedia article that explains the equations. In summary, you are assigned a score named after the equation's inventor, ELO. If you defeat someone with equal or lower ELO (a lesser skilled player), you don't get many points. So you can have 100 matches with equal...

My matches are commonly lagged, sometimes with 10000ms or greater pings. At best, this wrecks the game. At worst, I go AFK and abandon the match. This thread is a presentation of my evidence and my proposed root cause. I play using an iPad Mini Retina. This is recommended hardware for playing Vainglory. It has two-band WiFi, 5GHz and 2.4GHz. I use an Asus dual-radio WiFi router. I used an Ubiquiti spectrum analyzer to select the channels. The 5GHz channel is otherwise vacant, and the...

Elsewhere in this forum the VG developers say the ranking system is based on the ELO rating system. This is a mathematical method to calculate a player's performance relative to others. There is an excellent Wikipedia article on it (google "Elo rating system"). In VainGlory, your ELO score is averaged with your other two teammates. Then, your team is matched against an opposing team that has an approximate same average ELO. For example, the enemy team may consist of one...

This weekend (May 16-17 2015), the lag was very bad. I tried playing using Comcast cable, AT&T U-Verse, and AT&T 3G/LTE. All three experienced terrible lag with Vainglory (although other high-bandwidth transactions were not suffering). Enemy players were freezing (making easy ganks) and my player was freezing (so I got killed a lot). Some games started with only two players on a team (image attached). As a result, I was knocked down two tiers (Gold to Bronze). I am Decent-ish and...

I play on an iPad Retina Mini in continental USA, midwest region, near a large high-tech metropolitan area. I am Karma Level 18. My wifi is an Asus RT-AC87 operating on either a totally free 5GHz channel or a 2GHz channel with distant interference. I used an Ubiquiti spectrum analyzer to view the WiFi spectrum to map my area. My ISP is Comcast over hardline cable. MY 3G/LTE provider is AT&T. I also have access to AT&T U-Verse over DSL. All three providers using Speedtest.net are...

Last game this happened, I was at 14 kills and my "teammate" was busy feeding in the jungle with 18 deaths. The third player deserted the match before the 10-minute mark. The enemy team was steamrolling and I was playing Pedal in the lane. There's no point continuing this sham, it's pure stupidity. Why do these players deny surrender? When do players start being matched to sensible teammates? I've never deserted a match since I started playing the game. I thought Karma Lv.12...

I take screenshots of the scores at the end of my matches (about 160 total). It provides great statistics. My win/loss ratio is about 50%. About a third of the wins and losses are because one or more players deserted the game. One of the most exciting matches I've ever played was a 2v2 because a player deserted on both sides! When one of my teammates abandon, if my remaining teammate is a team player, we have a fighting chance. But most of the time the remaining player is a jerk who feeds...