Unfair Matchmaking in Season 7

LilkeMan··7 votes·1,377 views

I love LOL game and heroes concept but I am simply dissapointed by matchmaking.

For 1 day I fell from b2 to b4 because in last 10 (6 games in a row) I got stuck with kids or unskilled players and lost.

I have with Shen 70% win ratio as support, many times I win 4vs5 and carry game, but in last games that's simply impossible. One game top tower goes in 10 min, other game jungler ww 10 min 0-6 score, enemy Xin jungler 6-0 carry all game when so feeded.

I every game win bot with adc and destroy first their bot tower, even I teleport top with my ulti help to defend or defeat enemy top and go back to bottom again to help adc.

Enemy team groups up with feeded mid or jungler, see that I am their main problem, come bottom and destroy our towers, our team no help at all, map awareness 0. My team don't know to group up when needed, to play safe, to predict enemy moves, to gank in right time...

Most of them are playing as "hot-headed" heroes who are going for kills and don't look for nothing more. Even they don't know my ulti so most of them escape from fight while I ulti them :)

It's not a problem for me to come back to b2 with my skills "good games will come" :). I want to progress up to divisions and to come where I belong and to play games with players who are on "my level". I lke to lose from stronger and good opponents in a matches that lasts more than 60 minutes.

I understand matchmaking is not perfect and I realy enjoy some good games, I also like to lose game sometimes because someone in our team feeded or had bad game, it happens. Sometimes I win because someone carry in my team and I really do nothing. But so many losses in a row because bad matchmaking makes people fell bad and to stop playing this game.

Now I must play all day to make it back to b2 where I were yesterday because I lost so many matches in a row by others mistakes. It's not that I am complaining because I cant win, I simply want to play matches "on higher level".

So please try to improve matchmaking system not by only matchmaking by MMR score, also by win ratio or some other tracking player parameter.

I would like to suggest that players in champion select in ranked games could only pick heroes on which they have mastery 5 or above.

I noticed that many feeders or unskilled players doesnt have masteries on heroes at all. On that way quality of games should be improved and smurfing from players which have 2 accounts and want to try new heroes in bronze will be prevented.

19 Comments

Timethief494 votes

So its your teammates huh? So you lose your last viktorgame because of the 23/7 Yi in your team and Not cause you were 3/7 with 130 CS after 30 minutes. Or the viktorgame before you were so Close to carry with 66cs after 29 minutes. It's easy to call Out others mistakes but you should maybe Look at your own before doing so.

LilkeMan1 votes

Yes you right about score but if you watched reply you would see what really happend. Ashe had score 12/3 in 16 min because overfeeded by my bottom teammates especially Nunu who had 2/12 and Draven 2/17. Then ashe came to help Kassadin on mid with whom I was even in fight and they got me 2vs1. Garen and Yi were good but we 3 coudnt carry game against their complete team.

Stats dont explain everything you must to watch to better understand.

I am 28 year old programmer and not just some kid flammer who dont understand how things works and arguing without good reason.

Match what you saw stats it's really example of what I was talking about.

Timethief491 votes

I dont really care about the scores if you want to get better improve your csing. Its really bad tbh. Most junglers have more with ease without going for hardfarming

LilkeMan1 votes

Most time when I play with Shen I am focuse in saving my teammates and wining team fights. Also as support I dont need csing.

With Viktor you right csing is the key, but when you play mid and in 15 minute of gameplay you chase top/bot to help your team mates to deffend their lane because they lost their tower and cant deffend from opponent even with jungler or when top/bottom opponents come mid and tries to dive in your tower can you then improve csing? :)

Timethief491 votes

66cs after 29 minutes is an average of 2.2cs per minute. even if you roam like hell you should get a lot more easily.

LilkeMan1 votes

Ok you convinced me :). From now on I will try to be more focused on csing, especially when I play mid. If I succeed and improve I will let you know

exiledFromBadmen3 votes

This problem is mostly because this game is very popular. Most kids want to do something their friends do. They also admire people bigger than them, so they spend time on League and other games. I will end this with a Turkish proverb: When there are many (people nearby), there is poop.

LilkeMan2 votes

Haha nice catch :). But how is possible that I last 20 games end with that kids in team? :)

exiledFromBadmen1 votes

Maybe the system thinks that you can carry all of them.

LilkeMan1 votes

Maybe you right, but I am not yet skilled at that level so I can carry 3-4 players in team

Shifue Draven2 votes

I couldn't agree more i know i mess up i and constantly looking on how to improve excluding my cho game to a very good extent most of that was my fault i do know the champ but still jg never gave a hand and my mid also helped fed riven as well. if you look at my other 3 games it's obvious what happened. karma fed and did not build support at all. Before that support ashe"cause it worked in worlds" and she did everything to mess up laning from shooting my cs throwing my love tap off to chasing the adc instead of harrassing soraka. Then the pantheon game my jungle fed hard along with my ad mid ren(really? ad mid ren) and thresh was not much better. Then the one with graves that was like 23/7 that graves had to be a smurf he was using that dash like it was on macro and just could not be damaged it was insane.

Again i have faults but this is stupid.

makkii2 votes

While you do decent with shen, According to your match history you're at least partially at fault for your losses, you're also at below 50% win rate despite having played over 400 ranked game, in case you didnt know the matchmaking system is designed to keep most people at 50% win rate aka vs similarly skilled people, if you cant climb out at this point, you need to either A. Accept that this is ehere you belong, or b. Get better

Another thing, support isnt the best role for getting out of solo qeue, i would suggest main roling either JG or top

LilkeMan1 votes

My goal whas exactly that to achieve 50% overal win rate. I had really bad win rate(about 43%) and I usually got 13 LP for win and losing 22LP per defeat.

When I started to play with Shen I improved that and came to 48% win rate. Average on 3 wins I got 1 defeat and games lasted from 45 minutes to 1 hour with good balanced skill level teamates and opponents. I now gain 18 LP per win and lose 19 LP per loss, I needed one win to get in promotion for b1.

But from yesterday either I play with Shen or Victor I lose 90% of games. Game barely lasts half hour and my teammates lose their tower on their lane in aproximately first 15 minutes(not in my lane) . I dont understand how that big streak of such bad matchmaking games is happening.

Also I like to play support because most people are playing support when autofill sets them. Most time (especially in bronze) they dont good support adc and bad supported adc cant carry late game.

option paralysis2 votes

bro I went from d2 to d5 0 lp and keep losing games. matchmaking system is fair man. :)

/s

LilkeMan2 votes

It seems I am following you steps too, same it happens to me :)

Wafflessssss1 votes

I dunno but it looks like on average you have poor k/d and cs. And even if my team feeds I can usually at least go positive. It looks like you need to get better before you climb.

LilkeMan1 votes

I got better, with Shen 73% win rate, 1 win to promotion to b1, 1 loss per 3 wins, then from yesterday 10 losses in row and fall from b4, I am not sure how is that possible.

Nea1041 votes

Matchmaking is intentionally unbalanced. It's the easiest way to keep the 50% win/loss ration, with a naive coding. There's always a far stronger team, and one far worse; you go in the one or in the other almost 50% of the times. Riot doesn't care and keep that, even if you can't have a single balanced game :D (you can, they're about 3%) It's not the only one to do that, since people keep playing anyway :D

LilkeMan2 votes

You right they dont care for balance in game because game is so popular and always will have players who will play it. In 90% of games, like you said, you get easy win or easy lose depending in which team you are placed stronger or weaker.

But that's not my main idea from start when I started to play this game how matchmaking is based. So as title said I am dissapointed in matchmaking and hopefully sometimes that will become better.

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