Match making broken?

Rag Rappy··5 votes·4,852 views

I don't know if this is the appropriate outlet, but I have to vent. I'm sorry in advance.

I've been playing this game for 3 years, and I've never felt angry. Like yeah, you lose some games and you win some games. Sometimes it's like a coin toss - when you flip a coin randomly, you'll get a lot of wins in a row and a lot of losses in a row sometimes.

But I feel like it's not the same this season - I'm irritated and venting, but I'd also like some feedback if somebody can give me a response.

I started this season placed in S3 for support - and I won 2 out of my 8 placements (in my first game I got an S, but had somebody on my team feeding so I lost).

Fast forward to post placements - I won 11 games in a row, and was receiving about 13 lp per win. Then I hit a terrible losing streak - game after game I was silver 2 and getting placed with people no higher than silver 4, and in many instances bronze 1. I didn't play a game with a single player of equivalent rank. After losing 9 games in a row (literally just finished the 9th loss), many in which I got an S and scored with KDAs of like, 5 in my favor, I'm down to like 40 lp Silver 4. (And to top it off - last game the other team had a Kat mid that was 21/7 with 197 cs, and our lux mid was 6/8 with 140 cs - our lux had a bounty and kat didn't).

I know this is an annoying rant and I'm sure people have them all the time, but if somebody could provide some insight or explanation or SOMETHING as to why this is going this way for me, I just don't understand the math and the mechanics of the match making.

Thanks for reading.

10 Comments

Bloodrage Shadow3 votes

Matchmaking right now is complete garbage. I'm plat 4 and regularly still get silvers in most of my games with a bronze every 5 games or so. How that makes any lick of sense is beyond me.

I've been playing league regularly since season 5 (juggernaut patch), and my frustration with this game was at it's lowest in S5 and hit an all time high toward the tail end of S8 to the point where I quit for most of preseason. These coinflip games make for a terrible experience and only fuels the frustrations everyone has with the game.

mack91122 votes

It’s sounds like your mmr is rather low . You just have to play through it.

ChrisBrownze1 votes
mack91121 votes

if he lost that many games he deserves to be in that position

Kind Bunny Girl1 votes

It could possibly be because there are fewer people playing this game than like, 2-3 years ago. My normal wait time for normal games is around 7-10 minutes and so I think Riot is just pairing teams up based on their current rank, not the division. I've also found it hard to carry games for some reason.

I've been diamond for the 2 past seasons and every time I smurf, I would be carrying and winning games but now, I've found it harder to win games and carry them.

Maybe my skill just decreased or something...

ChrisBrownze1 votes

No youre just running in to more smurfs like you that our doing the same thing because of the shitty system

Starmfangy1 votes

More and more people are leaving the game. The matchmaker is forced to pair you with lower levels to make up for lost players.

Hexs Fortune1 votes

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I don't know if this is the appropriate outlet, but I have to vent. I'm sorry in advance.

I've been playing this game for 3 years, and I've never felt angry. Like yeah, you lose some games and you win some games. Sometimes it's like a coin toss - when you flip a coin randomly, you'll get a lot of wins in a row and a lot of losses in a row sometimes.

But I feel like it's not the same this season - I'm irritated and venting, but I'd also like some feedback if somebody can give me a response.

I started this season placed in S3 for support - and I won 2 out of my 8 placements (in my first game I got an S, but had somebody on my team feeding so I lost).

Fast forward to post placements - I won 11 games in a row, and was receiving about 13 lp per win. Then I hit a terrible losing streak - game after game I was silver 2 and getting placed with people no higher than silver 4, and in many instances bronze 1. I didn't play a game with a single player of equivalent rank. After losing 9 games in a row (literally just finished the 9th loss), many in which I got an S and scored with KDAs of like, 5 in my favor, I'm down to like 40 lp Silver 4. (And to top it off - last game the other team had a Kat mid that was 21/7 with 197 cs, and our lux mid was 6/8 with 140 cs - our lux had a bounty and kat didn't).

I know this is an annoying rant and I'm sure people have them all the time, but if somebody could provide some insight or explanation or SOMETHING as to why this is going this way for me, I just don't understand the math and the mechanics of the match making.

Thanks for reading.

I'm right there with you. There seems to be an excess of completely one sided games this season compared to the past. Especially in flex queue.

Vreivai1 votes

Similar shit has been happening to me for a while. Matchmaking is completely fucking broken. Almost every single player I play against is ranked at least one tier higher than me, meanwhile I'm losing more LP on losses than I'm gaining for wins. If that's something that's happening, matchmaking and the ranked system is fundamentally broken.

Rag Rappy1 votes

Strangely enough, I feel better with people responding and feeling similarly - I assumed I was going to get flamed. I guess the boards community is different than in game lol.

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