4.20 Blind Matchmaking

ZachTheApathetic·11/30/2014, 10:20:17 AM·1 votes·682 views

Curious if anyone else has noticed that blind pick matches have been a lot more one-sided since 4.20. Maybe I'm crazy, but ever since the patch quite a few more of my matches have been massive one way stomps, either in or against my favor. Again maybe it's just coincidence, but I can't help but have a feeling they changed something.

2 Comments

ƒæµ11/30/2014, 10:23:35 AM1 votes

Not much has changed other than how important and snowbally dragon buffs are. If you are losing out on early dragon buffs the enemy team will snowball and end in pretty dominating fashion. Other than that it's maybe just luck.

ValyrianBlade11/30/2014, 2:03:15 PM1 votes

I'd argue the whole jungle is much more snowbally.

If a jungler gets even a little ahead (a kill or two for example) their clearing ability improves so much that they get jungle gold faster and can gank even more often with even more gold.

In contrast, if a jungler falls even a little behind, e.g. gets invaded by a laner, gets counter ganked at a bad time, or especially dies, clearing the jungle on all but the strongest clearers is much harder and you soak so much money in to pots putting you farther behind, all the while being unable to gank due to low health from clears and being behind anyways - putting you farther and farther behind.

Also, if your lanes are all doing poorly most junglers can't do a thing, since they're giving up more jungle farm and pressure by covering a Lane due to the lack of a gold storing item.