Riot, you need to address matchmaking in normal

xJLx MCHammer··4 votes·813 views

I have been playing LOL since it's release. I think this game is longest I have ever played a game for. Despite playing it for so long, I don't think I have excelled to a great degree. I find myself to be a Gold-low plat player.

The truth is, I don't like playing Ranked. I can't always invest the focus required to play when I have a family or stuff that needs to be address during a match. I tend to play about 10-20 ranked game just to see where I can carry myself to or get places in

I play normals. I must say, I hate how Riot has refused to even address the ongoing problems with the matchmaking in normal. Why not address and issue that clearly impacts Ranked players as well. If the only place to get a decent match is in ranked, where do you think people will flock to?

If I'm trying to learn a new champion that I never played before, why am I being matched against players who are not just better than me, but leagues better. What is a challenger doing in my fu^**^ing game? What is a diamond 1 doing in my game? At best, I should be matched with plats and gold, instead 70% of players in all my game are Diamond or Plat. It's absurd!

It's match making like these which makes me say ," ^^%^ it!, I'm taking this champion I never played before to Ranked". Why? Because I'll fight people my level in ranked

In normal, I get destroyed my a challenger Ahri when I'm trying to play a first time Orianna or whatever. I go in a game and people harass the ^* out of my for "feeding".

Riot fix your fuxking matching making

6 Comments

Live2LetDie2 votes

see this is a selfish thought. Most higher elo players never play normals, i think you can agree, and ranked Qs already take 10+mins to find a game. Now imagine if you wanted to get on and play some normals to chill but becuase you are ranked high you have to wait 20+mins to get into a normal game. You would be pissed more than being owned in a normal game.

xJLx MCHammer2 votes

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see this is a selfish thought. Most higher elo players never play normals, i think you can agree, and ranked Qs already take 10+mins to find a game. Now imagine if you wanted to get on and play some normals to chill but becuase you are ranked high you have to wait 20+mins to get into a normal game. You would be pissed more than being owned in a normal game.

Totally agree. I'm not saying, it needs to be as evenly matched as ranked. But at its current state, its matching a challenge her with a unrankrd (me currectly). And it's not like it's even giving me teammates who are somewhat high Eli to compensate.

Live2LetDie1 votes

I see the argument but just cant see a way to balance it without killing Q times. We dont know the stats but its not hard to assume 1mil NA players play every single day. Now high elo, diamond +, is the top 20k people roughly. Split that between two Qs and you can see that the number of low elo players playing normals vastly out scales the number of diamond + players. So trying to grab other high elo players to balance out a match would take a long time and what happens when you get to the instant where there is only one D+ player left in Q?

Just brainstorming here because i know players get pissed when playing with people way higher than them but there is a reason normals, which should just be a grab and play, allow this.

King Artorias1 votes

Sorry to bump this but i really don`t want to allow this. Ranked season is almost over i barely play ranked. And all the people who reached plat now start playing normals. Guess what. I play 3 games and in all 3 of them 1 player is plat or higher.

Even if they are in my team it is just not fun to play with. I cant improve because by playing safe they either will outfarm u and setup a dive or roam like crazy mofo`s and snowball that way.

I find it weird how people talk about queue times in normals because i wait for like 5 mins sometimes and i honestly dont care if it was longer.

People always say u can learn from them. But u dont learn much besides wave control and stuff like that. But when they snowball out of control there is no way to learn from them when they can oneshot anyone.

DevlinCrow1 votes

Yep very annoying, I'm Bronze-Silver level but sometimes I get Gold/Plat players. Really annoying when I get enemies 2 Gold,2 Silvers & 1 Bronze vs 2 unranked (including me), 2 Bronze and 1 Silver lol.

Equally as annoying when it's the opposite way around. Stomps aren't fun, regardless of which side I'm on.

Fortunately it's not as common as in other games so I do stick around :) Just stay away from Ranked lol

Hambles1 votes

I have been exhausted with this lately. In almost every game I have a high platinum player. I've even had diamond players and recently a Master player in one of my games. I am silver 2. I want to try champions in an environment where I can learn without destroying people's lp. But when I go into normals I just get utterly stomped out. I even had the guy in my last game say "I'm sorry, I don't know why I'm getting matched with silver players." It is so stressful. And when I queue up with my friends (who are also bad at the game) we just get placed against even higher level people. When there is a master level player in your game, you might as well surrender.

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