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Riot your matchmaking really sucks

Aquanar··9 votes·2,558 views

Riot, your matchmaking in 5v5 draft ROYALLY sucks.

Have you lost so many players on the North America server, that you have to just pit any players together, in order to get a 5v5 game created in under five minutes?

Teams are ALWAYS totally uneven, one team ALWAYS has no chance whatsoever, because all the new players are on that team together. FYI, it's NOT FUN to smear the new players around, it's no challenge, and it's boring. FYI, it's NOT FUN to be placed on a team with four new players, against a team with one new player. The outcome is fore-ordained, and we all know it, and that makes the game boring and uninteresting.

Do you need help in creating effective matchmaking? All of us here in the community will be happy to help, it will take about six minutes to fix your matchmaking problems forever (and with them, most of the toxicity that YOU are creating with the bad matching system).

If you have such a low population on the NA server in prime time hours, perhaps you need to re-assess the direction in which you have steered League of Legends. Losing the player base is not the path to profit, nor is it the path to gaining a healthy fan population.

Make the game enjoyable, especially for the people you are trying to attract as customers, by creating fun matchups. Take the simple steps to reduce toxicity in the community, the dividends you reap will go far.

4 Comments

Nikki Andersen1 votes

It's not even necessary to queue golds with silvers since theres already so many players in lower elos so i don't understand why riot wont reduce queue times for better matchmaking in lower elos

Nhifu1 votes

There are a few reasons they don't change the system, mainly to cater to newbies.

League of legends has always been a casual game, and the money is flowing like crazy from overseas.

Why please the dying NA player-base when you can have dedicated players in China / Asia / EU ?

Another issue is they don't want to rehaul ranked; is because new players (the ones they cater to) can't tell a difference.

Auron Zanarkand1 votes

Well to be honest EU is not better at all, and every single game is decided by the matching, there's no individual skill that comes to shine in any single game, there's just one team stomping the other making it really boring. Whenever someone is really fucking good in the team that is supposed to be stomped you get a long game and they eventually win, or lose if the champion that the player who's carrying all his teammates gets outscaled, and it makes it really unrewarding. Every loss feels fucking terrible and the next game is just worse teammates against better enemies, and every win feels unrewarding cause it's either a stomp, or you have to sweat and carry your entire team making it extremely stressful and not funny since you don't really have the opportunity to take any risks as you're not allowed to make mistakes and are forced to make up for every mistake of your team. So yeah, I've seen a lot of "veterans" quitting this game that never had a problem with 50% winrate and hardstucking in silver/bronze/gold whatsoever, it just got that bad this last 2 seasons and it's terrible, honestly. Also making Carries so worthless doesn't help at all, I'm honestly done with this game, I feel like I don't deserve any of my wins, but also none of my losses. I've honestly had enough this season and I'm not just crying about my teammates, sometimes I've been trash, we all have bad games and sometimes I just feeded my ass off deserving the loss, but most of the time I won 1/7 games cause I got carried and honestly they should fix that

dannybane071 votes

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Riot, your matchmaking in 5v5 draft ROYALLY sucks.

Have you lost so many players on the North America server, that you have to just pit any players together, in order to get a 5v5 game created in under five minutes?

Teams are ALWAYS totally uneven, one team ALWAYS has no chance whatsoever, because all the new players are on that team together. FYI, it's NOT FUN to smear the new players around, it's no challenge, and it's boring. FYI, it's NOT FUN to be placed on a team with four new players, against a team with one new player. The outcome is fore-ordained, and we all know it, and that makes the game boring and uninteresting.

Do you need help in creating effective matchmaking? All of us here in the community will be happy to help, it will take about six minutes to fix your matchmaking problems forever (and with them, most of the toxicity that YOU are creating with the bad matching system).

If you have such a low population on the NA server in prime time hours, perhaps you need to re-assess the direction in which you have steered League of Legends. Losing the player base is not the path to profit, nor is it the path to gaining a healthy fan population.

Make the game enjoyable, especially for the people you are trying to attract as customers, by creating fun matchups. Take the simple steps to reduce toxicity in the community, the dividends you reap will go far.

I have to agree with you on this. Just carried a team with 51 kills and one single death... And we still lost lol

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