How are games so unbalanced? Where is the Match Making Team at?????

TSM Luna ··18 votes·7,155 views

I have been playing since season one and historically games were almost always close fights. Once in a while, there was a shut out game that felt really good or really bad depending on which side of the one side fist fight you are on. Its rarity that made these games fun and even sometimes enjoyable. However, Riot wants to keep up with faster-paced games like Fortnite and the like. So what do they do? They tried to soft rework the game to end sooner and for the likelihood of long games to be less common. Yet, when I have looked at what the differences are from then and now that could be making that goal a reality, I see that your games are no longer based on having teammates and enemies around the same rank. I remember games used to be based on 10 people all being around the same rank, but now all my games have people that can be mid to high gold vs people mid to high bronze. The only defense I have heard from riot employees is that everyone is still around the same rank. True if I go on OP.gg and look at the average team rank, both teams average pretty close to each other, but let's be freaking honest, who is going to win? A Gold 2 Fizz or a Bronze 2 Lux. Ever since matchmaking is less about everyone's ranks being close to each other and more about the teams average rank being similar, it's true that games are faster but a lot less healthy. Nowadays it feels like its nearly every single game that is a hard stomp. whether my team is going 46-17 or 17-46, neither game feels good and thats almost every game so no game feels good, accept the rare neck and neck game where both teams are equal in kills and its a tough fought but well-earned fight. I miss when League was strategical, now its just a bunch of hard stomps. I am legitimately considering uninstalling league. This isn't the game I fell in love with. I would much rather a longer Queue time if everyone in the game was evenly matched in rank and skill so games could be closer and better. I would pay for that so I wouldn't have to deal with the trash Queues that are shorter but leave teams getting obliterated.

16 Comments

GaurdianAngel81514 votes

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I would much rather a longer Queue time if everyone in the game was evenly matched in rank and skill so games could be closer and better.

Preach.

Tortpocalypse1 votes

agreed!

Sodeb Lacudomite7 votes

I noticed that many games, you see lanes (wether top, mid or bot, 1v1 or 2v2) going 0/10/0 behind 3 level and 100 cs very quickly, WITHOUT JUNGLER INFLUENCE.

That shows very large discrepancy in players level.

What could cause this? auto-filled playing a new champion having a bad game (like, having a bad day, it happens!) being against a smurf ... or match-making being fcked and putting some Silver 1 50% winrate vs Platinum 1 50% winrate (2 tier above, and actual MMR 2 tier above). Sometimes, Silver 1 90% winrate has the MMR of a Platinum 1 20% winrate.

I actually have seen many times in ranked players with 2 tier difference, and similar winrate over a large number of games. It happens much, much more often when you duo queue.

So yeah, I do think the match-making is bad. I really wish they would show us their algorithm and be transparent.

Look okay, statistically you have the same chance of having very good or very bad teammates, blabla ok. But whether it's in your or in enemy team, large MMR difference game free win or free lose are frustrating. When you have time for 1 or 2 games a day, and you're 0/0/0 in your lane at 5 min and the score is already 20/0, it's just frustrating, I'm sorry but even challenger players would lose these games (I'm yet to see video on youtube of "high elo" player consistently winning is those situations).

TSM Luna 2 votes

I actually just watched a Challenger smurf hard stuck in Silver/Gold elo on a smurf because the absolute unbalance that he couldn't even carry

The Kombinator3 votes

Yeah my last 3 games ended in 25 min.. Two of them were below 16 min.. Somehow my last 10 games was either easy win, or easy loose. I mean even just trading 2 people from both teams with each other could create a more balanced situation. But when top, mid, and jungler all get smashed to pieces...

Śhunpo3 votes

In most of my games there's at least a full division difference, and a lot of the time there's a 2-3 division difference.

Case and point: https://imgur.com/a/XEOVqQM

TSM Luna 1 votes

thats just insane

WastedHooker2 votes

All the draconian bans for the slightest offense happened. Then everyone rerolled accounts (me included) and just played lower level games.

Kanyoupipu4 votes

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All the draconian bans for the slightest offense happened. Then everyone rerolled accounts (me included) and just played lower level games.

I'm sure Riot makes a killing off 2nd/3rd/4th account addicts getting their bans mained and reclimbing on new ones.... but that also destroys new player experience and low ELO games completely.

The Kombinator2 votes

Never understood why the moderation even exist. Put a 4 byte number on the block list, and let players decide who is toxic, and who don't. It's not like i can punch other through the monitor even though sometimes i really wish i could.

Going int feeding, or rragequiting is different. But i doubt, that many people do that on high elo.

KnKitsune2 votes

"We're not making this change in other skill ranges because when we look through matchmaking data we're not seeing the same pretty substantial MMR differences between players. " Meddler, May 3rd.

Suffice to say, Riot for some reason thinks it's completely fine right now.

TSM Luna 1 votes

why are they hard catering to the 1 percenters when the majority of the world is Gold and below and we are the ones suffering the most. That's tragic. I started a copypasta on the LCS stream about fixing Match Making, I hope that people will join in and we can convince someone to do something. It might be a shot in the dark but doing something is better than doing nothing, hence why I finally made this post.

5050BS2 votes

Riot REALLY needs to spend some Full Team Dev cycles on making a GOOD Match Making for Iron-Plat

TSM Luna 1 votes

thanks, everyone, I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees this, my first game of the day, ranked btw, my team went 12-42 in 20 minutes, like seriously, why is there a Bronze 3 on my team facing off against a Silver 2, I wonder why she went 14/3. This is every freaking game. Every. Single. Game. Miserable shut outs. Riot "fixed" rank when everyone spammed it, maybe we need to spam "fix match-making" whenever Riot is streaming? If you read this post please do spam RIot.

TSM Luna 1 votes

side note, the very game after this one my team went 17-33, this is getting old af

LordGeovanni1 votes

Its part match making team its part cry baby players surrendering tons tanking their mmr that they are actually lower rank than they are at

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