What Does Affect League of Legends MMR

The most common factor that can affect your MMR is; losing matches.

Riot Games has officially shared the statement that wins and losses can fluctuate your MMR. When you win, your MMR will go up, and in case of loss, your MMR will go down.

You can use the MMR checker to track whether your MMR is going up or down, so you will know better about your skill level and matchmaking progress.

However, there are a lot of other factors which can affect your MMR indirectly, which are mentioned below. 

Let’s discuss other factors.

Factors That Affect LoL MMR

Win/Loss Ratio

Riot Games has officially displayed that wins and losses can fluctuate your MMR. 

You can track your wins and losses by looking at your win/lose ratio in your account profile stats. 

If the win ratio is more than the loss ratio, it is good because it shows that you are winning more than losing, and as a result, you will see your MMR going up. 

If the loss ratio is more than the win ratio then it can affect your MMR indirectly. 

So always try to win and keep your win ratio more than the loss ratio. 

Win/Loss Streaks 

Continuously losing the matches means that you are on a lose streak and continuously winning means that you are on a win streak. 

It might be not a direct factor that can fluctuate your MMR, but it can be an indirect factor because it is a signal that you are winning matches, and winning matches is a big factor in MMR calculation. 

It can affect your MMR if you are on a loss streak. 

Performance

If I ask you; how can you judge a player’s skill level in League of Legends? What will be your answer? Of course, you will say, by looking at his in-game performance. 

Riot Games has told in one of their official articles that MMR is a hard indicator of a player’s skill level. This means that MMR is calculated based on a player’s skills, so it means that Riot Games considers the players’ performance while calculating an MMR. So if you are performing badly, it can affect your MMR. 

Always try to perform well and win.

Teammates & Opponents MMR

MMR is used to make the matches faired between players, which means that while matching the players, League of Legends looks at the players’ MMR and then combines the same MMR players in one match. 

So if you are playing with teammates who have higher MMR than yours, as a result, you will match with higher MMR opponents. 

Try to win from the opponents because it will help to gain more MMR increase per win as compared to competing with lower MMR players. You will gain more MMR because the system judges you as a more skilled player.

If you have low MMR teammates, as a result, you will compete with low MMR opponents and if the low MMR opponents have won the match, it will affect your MMR because the system will judge you as a less skilled player. 

Champion Mastery

Champion mastery is not a direct factor, it might affect your MMR indirectly. How? Let’s discuss. 

Let’s suppose you are playing in Flex queue with a champion, about which you have no experience, more likely you will perform badly and as we have discussed that performance can affect your MMR. 

So try to become the specific champion master. It will make you perform well and as a result, your MMR will go up. 

Use the MMR checking tool to track the progress, if your MMR is affected then you can follow the guide mentioned below. 

Method To Increase MMR

It is easy to increase your MMR in Ranked, ARAM, and Normal modes, but should follow the factors and you should perform better. 

As we all know every negative side has a positive side, similarly if your MMR can go down by not meeting the factors, your MMR can go up by meeting those factors. 

For example:

If bad performance can affect your MMR, similarly good performance can help your MMR to go up. 

If loss streaks can affect your MMR, similarly, a winning streak can help your MMR to go up. 

This statement works with all of the factors which can affect your MMR such as win/lose ratio, champion mastery, and more.