I'm just curious if it's actually the case or totally by random luck. It seems when I solo queue I get nice teammates that you know, are competent. We don't always win but usually it's pretty even. When I duo with someone, all that goes to hell. The matchmaking is super off. Everyone is toxic or rage quits...Is this normal?
From my experience your duo need to be way more skilled than your current elo to perform well. But if you are, it is ez win, unlike solo.
Depends on the synergy you have with your duo partner and your relative mmrs.
Matchmaking tries to match duos against duos, and are matchmade as their average mmr.
For the first part of that, if it can't find a similar mmr duo to match you against, it matches you against slightly higher mmr players to offset the communication advantage you theoretically have by duoing, so in that sense it can be harder unless your communcation is actually playing a strong role (in which case it should theoretically be the same difficulty as solo or even easier).
For the second part of that regarding matching as your average mmr, if your mmrs differ by much things can get a little wonky feeling. The higher of you will be playing against players who are on average worse than you, while the lower of you will be facing players on average better. In an ideal world, matchmaking found another duo with the same mmrs, but even then theres no guarantee that the weaker player in your duo will match up against the weaker player of their duo, so it could well be that the low mmr player on your side is facing the high mmr player on their side, and then things can get snowballed.
If you're basically the same mmr, and are communicating with each other, it should feel roughly the same as solo though. Often times, at least one of those things isn't true though, which can make things feel extra spicy.
From experience, It's about the same.
