I don ' t know what that is . I hope I haven ' t been stupid about things , just woken up . Edit I know we have trickle down tech just like we have trickle down economics , but I wasn ' t trying to apply any principles sir . <| sep |> Does that make the game worse for everyone else ? No , it makes it better because the level of play is elevated seeing that they ' re capable of executing combinations with each other means that I can then rely on them to make similar plays with me . It ' s more fun because the awkwardness of not knowing how much you can expect from your teammates is diminished . Literally nothing to do with the fact that they ' re speaking in a foreign language . I can see you ' re trying really hard , but it just doesn ' t make any sense . People speaking in the same language equals better communication whether it ' s to talk more specifically about what you need to do in game than pings or chat wheel , or overall to have anyone feel like he ' s part of the team , be more cohesive and have a more pleasant time because you know what ' s going on . Better communication equals more interesting game . That ' s why we have a language preference option and a part of why we have different servers , and if you remove that , it will highly lower the quality of the games . I don ' t know what you ' re actually complaining about that wouldn ' t be addressed by combining party and solo MMR . Then i suggest that you stop trying to convince yourself and actually start reading what people are saying lol ? Party mmr is biased , this is how it is . You ' re not being judged by your own performance , but also by the performance of the players you choose to play with . Therefore , giving you an individual party mmr as a result of how your stacks are performing is never going to be an accurate way to rate your own performance unless you pick random people to stack with . Depending on the stack you ' re in , your party mmr is absolutely not gonna be an accurate way to rate your performance in that stack . If you are playing with a player 2 k above you , that decided to tryhard the shit out of these games , and carry mid with some pubstomper like invoker or ember or morph or some shit , and gives you very simple yet very effective tasks to support him by telling you to stack his two mid camps , and where to ward , and who to disable in teamfight primarily , and your item build , and when to be around himjoin fights etc , your hero impact in the game will be consequent as a result , because supporting a good player is more effective than supporting a bad player , and because he made you play better with his own understanding of the game by giving you tasks that he knows you can fulfill . Basically he ' s carrying the shit out of you and your stack is probably playing better than the average of your two party mmr because that guy decided to take full advantage of the skill discrepancy by playing a high impact hero and use you to support him efficiently because he knows you ' ll be cooperative and follow his advice . That ' s how some people end up thinking they belong to a mmr that is much higher than theirs because they do well in games that are pretty high mmr in stack . And it ' s true , they indeed do ok . Simply they don ' t understand why they do well in these games , because it didn ' t come from them only , and therefore they ' re not able to translate that in their games with players of the same skills . Now in the next game you play with another friend of yours that is lower mmr than you , and you both are generally playing party for fun , so you decide to pick some cheesy dual lane like pudge techies or some shit and have fun . You are playing at your own skill level again , but this time your mid is getting dumpstered by someone that is higher mmr than him someone like your teammate from last game , and you don ' t play as good as when you had the advice of someone that is higher rated than you , and you don ' t have a really high impact hero that can manage to set the tempo of the game on his own and carry alone . You ' re the same player in both stacks , you cared just as much about the game and you played accordingly . But , the player you ' re with matters . If you use an individual mmr to try to rate your own contribution to these party games , you will automatically be wrong , more or less and one way or another , the mmr you end up having is gonna be extremely biased by the persons you chose to play with . The only way around that would be to have a stackspecific mmr , much like team mmr , but that applies to any single stack you play in . If you play with X friend , your dual stack will be attributed a stackmmr , and if you play with Y friend , your dual stack will be attributed another stackmmr . If it worked this way , party mmr wouldn ' t exist , your solo mmr would be rating you individually , and any stack you ' re part of would be rated as a stack . So yeah , currently everyone is having a biased party mmr as a result , and matchmaking uses the average of two biased mmr in order to rate your stack . If you remove party mmr and use one mmr only , this leads to not only party mmr being biased and therefore leading to shitty quality games , but to your combined mmr also . This is basically dynamic Elo in League or some shit and that ' s why people got pissed . You literally kill mmr as a whole by removing party mmr , games with stacks will be just the same shit as it is now , but even 10 solo players will still be matched based on a biased mmr and the whole matchmaking would be a massive clusterfuck . You either keep party mmr , or you keep stacks from playing in ranked entirely . That ' s the two only options that you have if you want mmr to stay unbiased and meaningful . I ' d be fine with removing parties from ranked all together and having them play normal pubs only , since balance will be shit anyway and then it means that parties get games even faster , BUT , it is not necessary . You can have them play in ranked IF they use a separate party mmr which they do , and if other ranked players aren ' t forced to deal with them and have their overall games quality lowered which is what needs a fix . There is an easy fix for that though , just let people choose if they ' re fine with having stacks in their games , or not . That way everyone is happy , stacks can both play in ranked and unranked , they can even keep playing with solo queue players and having party mmr mixed with solo mmr in games , and solo mmr players are fine with it because they chose to play with them or to wait a little longer so they don ' t have to . That easy fix is a solo queue option , and it ' s nothing more than a slightly more customizable matchmaking .