Matchmaking is broken

Revalis·Feb 5, 2016·4 votes·4,945 views

Since the start of Season 6, every game I've played is extremely one-sided. The last game I played had 4/5 ranked (3 silver and 1 bronze) players vs all un-ranked, mostly sub-30 players. It seems like /every/ game I play is like this. Maybe this is mostly venting, but it feels like the matchmaking system is, actually, broken; and not just an exaggeration of speech. At this rate, I won't hit 30 by the end of S6... if at all; and the ratio of wins to losses is making me consider quitting altogether. It is extremely aggravating.

15 Comments

RevalisFeb 9, 20162 votes

Hey Riot, just wanted to remind you that Matchmaking is still broken... I know you guys are busy, and the boards are full of complaints, but I really would like to call attention to this. My nightly games were all, once again, super unbalanced. The team kill board disparity from my last 5 games: 30 to 6 22 to 4 34 to 23 4 to 24 27 to 14

There was not a single one of these games where there was the slightest chance the losing team might win. All ended in forfeits, following 'Team BlameFest 2016' (As you know, it's everyone else's fault)

This has ceased to be fun. Could we at least get some sort of acknowledgement?

RevalisFeb 9, 20161 votes

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/XvqbAgrF-letos-talk-about-dynamic-queues-and-ranked-play

Apparently this post addresses some concerns about the queue system, but it seems to be entirely focused on the ranked queues; whereas my concern is with unranked Normal Draft. Also, the stats given in that post seem.. high.

FrankerXFeb 5, 20161 votes

you know that the mmr of every unranked is around silver 4? so silver (and 1 bronze) vs basically silver 4's isnt broken

RevalisFeb 5, 20161 votes

Wha? How does that make sense? Unranked players (with ~ 70- 100 wins) can't be essentially equivalent in skill to a Silver 4 (with ~ 500 - 700 wins).

FrankerXFeb 5, 20161 votes

what wins are we talking about? because after 10 rankeds you are placed you arent unranked.

normal wins dont count. normal has their own mmr.

but everyone who hits lv 30 and starts his placements has a ~ silver 4 mmr to begin with.

RevalisFeb 5, 20161 votes

The wins you see when you highlight a player's profile pic in game.

And that's the thing.. only 1 person on our team was level 30. No one else was. And he hadn't been placed in Ranked yet. The other team had 4 seasoned/Ranked/high skill-level players.. There is no balance.

FrankerXFeb 5, 20161 votes

like i said normal matches have their own mmr :/ which is stupid yea.

chezwickcheeseFeb 7, 20161 votes

Completely agree. Ranked just isn't worth the frustration if you don't play with a team. The games are considerably more one sided that blind normal games (well mine are), which is saying something. Can we please go back to the old matchmaking system? This new dynamic queue isn't working and its apparent by the amount of threads regarding this issue. Solo Q players facing teams, a huge difference in skill level between players who are apparently in the same league, it doesn't make sense.

Reaper SorakaFeb 9, 20161 votes

From wiki:

A ranked game is a draft mode game type available to level 30 summoners with at least 16 champions available (NOT including free week champions). Summoners are placed on a game ladder and ranked against one another according to a hidden Matchmaking Rating.

You're probably playing normal draft, not ranked draft if you're not level 30...because as far as I know you can't play ranked until level 30.

Don't worry, I play mostly unranked draft, and the amount of games played varies from 100 wins to well over 2,000 (I think I'm around like 1600 myself.) It's not about how many games you've played, it's about how well you play throughout those games.

Somewhat relative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

https://youtu.be/1_xLjI6zN3I (Ignore the champion icons at the start; the champion you choose is irrelevant to elo.)

60751609DEL1Sep 1, 20161 votes

For some reason, I keep getting paired up with these abysmal teammates who has barely put any effort into learning how to play the game properly. This week, I got paired up with two Unranked players, and a few players who just aren't that good at the game, and guess what, most of these players barely win any of their Normal games as is. Is this what ELO Hell is like? Because it sure as hell seems like it. At this point, if I don't touch Silver IV by this weekend, I'll just give up on Ranked and move on to a game that has a much more tolerable matchmaking system. Or better yet, play a singleplayer game. Overwatch has an identical issue with their whole 50/50 matchmaking algorithm, so I won't go back there either.

Die KaiserSep 2, 20161 votes

Yea i get that alot, unless you are a jungler that camps the shit out of the enemy lanes, they will feed and keep making the same mistakes.

60751609DEL1Sep 3, 20161 votes

Yeah. It sucks. Recently, I've found that just muting everyone and only talking to them to give them build advice has helped me out a bit. Since I am somewhat toxic and can tilt very easily, if my teammates call me out for a simple mistake, I normally perform a lot worse, and believe me, in lower ELOs people, myself included, are always ready to call anyone out for something simple.

one shot ccOct 1, 20161 votes

i wanna only know is it me or is everyone have same feeling i hate league of legend more than ever i did play this game in season one i hate this new matchmaker someone tell me why we even playing ranked for ??? we have smart match maker now you dont need climb the ladder you are right in your elo if you stuck in silver its ok you are in plat dont worry you know there is no more yoloing if you trying realy hard to carrying the game the match maker will make your game harder to hold you in your elo
80% of game i am doing finei have 500 win and i do have 520 lose and i get drop from gold such joke !!! in last season i did play this much and i remember i become plat player the best thing i can say riot did kill the game with their stupid idea i hate that guy came up with this idea and i hope he suffer in his life

Moregånk FreemanNov 12, 20161 votes

Isn't it funny, i just went into a game with 3 gold including myself and 2 silver, i got matched with 2 plat 3 and 2 player and 3 high gold guess what we lost so hard there is nothing i can even do to carry is becaude the 2 plat player will focus me pretty hard because im adc and my team just stand next to me and watch me die over and over again with out even thinking trying to do something. Why is it so hard for matchmaking system to just rank me with people from within my elo range... I amcreally pissed off actually

TBadgerNov 22, 20161 votes

I've had exactly the same problem, I wish they'ed sort this out because every game I've played so far this season has been very un-fun. It doesn't help that assassins are so popular at the same time, which make the snowballing even worse.