In League of Legends there is a striking statistical anomaly: In North America, a player leads the leaderboard in “Ranked Flex” who has won 99% of his games. With 2188 LP, he ranks 1st in the Challenger leaderboard worldwide. That seems almost impossible. Apparently, something isn’t right.
What kind of player is this?
- The player’s account is called “Year Year U Fish”, he is a support main (via na.op.gg).
- His main champions are Thresh, Nautilus, and Karma.
- The special thing is: In “Ranked Flex”, the player has a win rate of 98.76%. He has secured 239 victories this season and has only lost 3 times.
The number is so impressive because no one even comes close: The 2nd in the global ranking has 65.09%.
Is he simply the best player of all time? Probably not. In solo queue, the player has only reached the Platinum rank, with 15 wins and 7 losses.
In previous seasons, he reached ranks like “Diamond 3” (2021) and “Bronze 1” (2020).
So unless he is the main character from “Kung Fu Hustle” and has magically discovered his Chi, that seems unlikely.
Not even Faker can keep up:
LoL player apparently competes with a team of buddies who lose everything without him
Why does he win so many games? That is currently being discussed in the USA.
A likely possibility is that he plays with players who are actually outstandingly good, but intentionally lose matches without him in the Flexed Ranked to keep their rank low.
The site “gameriv” explains that Year Year U Fish repeatedly plays with the same players who have a much lower rank in the Flexed leaderboard than he does:
- It mentions the account “Rosermine”, which is a “Grandmaster” player in solo queue, meaning one of the best on the server. However, in the Flex queue, the account is only “Platinum 1”.
- Other players that Year Year U Fish regularly plays with also seem to constantly lose matches when he is not with them, but win practically everything as soon as he joins the team.
This is a possible explanation: The “Challenger” player Year Year U Fish regularly competes with 4 players who have lower ranks than he does, thereby getting matched with weak opponents and apparently able to take them out in 99 out of 100 cases.
Because his teammates are “smurfs” – strong players who pretend to be weak players to slaughter weaker players.
However, at the moment, this is all just speculation from websites trying to explain this anomaly. But it looks very much like a group of friends has found a way to trick the system of League of Legends.
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