Please Balance Matchmaking

Palaven·9/16/2016, 7:46:40 PM·2 votes·941 views

Disclaimer: I know that MMR and Rank are not exactly identical but they are generally quite close with the exception of when really good players start playing a new account or have their rank reset at the start of a season.

I'm getting tired of teams having a wide ranking differential, where a high rank player is deemed to offset a lower ranked player. This is especially frustrating where, as a support, I'm put in a lower ELO game and am expected to offset a bad carry position. Look at this:

http://i.imgur.com/jhY5DDP.png

How is this possibly fair. To begin with, the other team has an average ranking of about halfway between Plat 5 and Plat 4 where my team has an average ranking just under Plat 5 (OK, I can live with this, its close enough). But a ton of our average ranking comes from the fact that our support (me) is Plat 2. Its just not realistic for a support to carry a horrible top and jungle. Yes, a support has an important role but it is to support the other players. And you can't support players who are vastly outmatched.

Ideally, all five players on each team would generally be within 1-3 ranks of each other (e.g., Plat 5 - Plat 2). Furthermore, or alternatively, the supports should be evenly matched and then the OTHER four positions should be balanced. You should never have a support on one team balancing out lower rated carry positions.

3 Comments

Gamer Girl Paige9/16/2016, 7:51:38 PM1 votes

Did you tell sivir to get item 3123

also surprising that in high elo they had a vayne-soraka combo.

Crossarms9/16/2016, 8:59:08 PM1 votes

lol, I'm gold 5 and it happens all the time. I get some gold 2 support on my team and a bunch of silver ranks. The enemy team gets all gold 3's. I'm in my jungle doing my first clear and by the time i finish the enemy team has 4+ kills. my question is how do people feed worse the higher in rank you get. you figure after reaching gold-plat people would know how not to feed and get carried.