@Riot, Flex Queue Matchmaking Creates Unbalanced Teams!
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.