@Riot, Flex Queue Matchmaking Creates Unbalanced Teams!

ESeTyRC··1 votes·656 views

I played a game last night, and it has come to my attention that I was in a match with (by Flex Queue ranks) a bunch of Silver, Bronze, and unranked players.

I'm in GOLD for Flex queue.

Now, I tried to be understanding when things like this happen, but this time I decided to organize it because the match was so heavily skewed. The ranks for the teams were as shown below.

To illustrate: Flex Rank / Solo Rank MY TEAM -------------------------vs------------------------ THEIR TEAM

**UNRANKED **/ n/a solo ----------------vs------------------- SILVER 3 / S3 solo SILVER 4 / G5 solo ----------------------vs------------------- SILVER 3 / G3 solo **BRONZE 3 **/ B1 solo --------------------vs------------------- BRONZE 1 / S4 solo GOLD 5 (me) / S2 solo ---------------vs------------------- UNRANKED / S4 solo BRONZE 4 / B1 solo --------------------vs------------------- BRONZE 1 / S5 solo

If going by everyone's highest ranks, the match looks like this: MY TEAM -------------------------vs------------------------ THEIR TEAM

UNRANKED ----------------vs------------------- SILVER 3 GOLD 5 -----------------------vs------------------- GOLD 3 BRONZE 1 ------------------vs------------------- SILVER 4 GOLD 5 (me) -------------vs------------------- SILVER 4 BRONZE 1 ------------------vs------------------- SILVER 5 That's 2 Golds + 2 Bronze + 1 Unranked --vs-- 4 Silvers + 1 Gold

Looking at it either way, using Flex Queue Ranks or Highest Player Rank, the teams are mismatched. It just shouldn't happen.

I, the only Flex Queue Gold player in this case, don't belong here. There's bronze and unranked players in the match!!

The system DOESN'T EVEN ALLOW QUEUEING WITH BRONZE AT MY RANK, and yet here I am with players I can't voluntarily enter a match with on both sides.

Why does this happen? It really shouldn't. It's just not fun when three of my teammates are genuine newbies and two of them (the 3rd was the support helping me at bot) are getting stomped in their respective lanes because the enemy team has better players overall.

My Unranked Top and Bronze 1 Mid fed their asses off and then some. Go figure.

I, at bot lane, scored kills, zoned their adc from cs, and came out far ahead... without much of a contest.

This was simply not fun for me, and I daresay it wasn't fun for my teammates either.

Yes, this was ONE match, but if it can happen once, why wouldn't it happen more? It's an automated matchmaking system.

Please make it so ALL players in a given match have to fit into the same rules as when hosting and entering Flex Queue -- if there's a Gold player, no Bronze, and vice versa.

2 Comments

MrHaZeYo1 votes

Lol.

Me and 2 of my friends play 3s in Flex. I'm S2, and they're S1. We get matched up against High Golds, Plats, and Low Diamonds.

After 1 game I went to go look what Flex rank they were. They had a G4 and G1, the other 3 were all high Plat in Flex. Like how the fuck is this fair.

It's not even 1 game either, from our experience, we always play against Golds-Diamonds. Which wouldn't be awful, but why do we always get the shit end, I don't see Riot giving us Brzies to play against. We'd be ok vs Silvers and Golds, but jesus I feel like Riot wants us to fail at Flex.

Ikilleddory1 votes

Was against a plat bot and low diamond guy top lane just the other day as well we won that, so maybe they were boosted ( and because we are used to the high Elo getting in our games ) but sometimes just sometimes if you aren't in a Premade to deal with that level of play it really is not fun AND Thsi is in normals? normals riot NORMALS.

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