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Match making - does anyone know how it works?

IvernTheTerrible·12/30/2016, 4:15:14 PM·2 votes·486 views

This isn't a thread complaining about champion balance or any of that garbage. I actually think the game is pretty balanced right now, other than top feels like an island more and more.

But this discussion was more toward match making. I would say that only 10% of my games make it 40min or longer (which means the game is even). The overwhelming majority of games are decided by 15 minutes, and you just have to ride them out (either win or lose).

I'm in my series for gold 5 and my first game my mid, and bot lane combined go 0-16 in lane.

My second game I get matched against a plat 2 jungler that carries the game.

I'm not sure if my hidden rating is high which is why I'm getting these weird games, or if I'm bad, or if my team is bad. The match making system is so hidden and secretive that it just feels confusing.

It would just be nice to actually be able to understand match making and why i'm getting placed how I am.

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Weathered12/30/2016, 5:01:51 PM1 votes

No one really knows for sure how it works, but we can speculate and sites like OP.GG try to estimate your MMR (match making rating, which is the number that the game tries to match people by).

I looked through your past 10 games, and almost all of the enemy junglers were around Silver 2 (which is the same as your OP.GG estimated mmr). Could you link the one with the plat jungler?

The other thing is that Flex Queue is a very new queue and is not at all evened out in ranks. I've seen people in Challenger for flex while they are gold on Solo/DuoQ. It will take a while for people to float to where they belong on flex, which is why I've stayed away from it.

Normal MMR is also different from both ranked (flex or SDQ), so you most likely won't be paired similarly ranked wise for normals. It may seem weird that you're getting people full tiers different from you in normals (trust me, I've been caught off guard when a master+ player just appears in a game), but people play very differently when they aren't pressured to win.