Is Teambuilder matchmaking broken?

Phraust·11/16/2014, 1:21:42 PM·3 votes·1,273 views

Me and my friend Swizzilous have done teambuilder to try out the new map. Three times now we've gotten in a game where we just get rolled because the other team has 1 diamond and 1 platinum. Its never 2 plats or 2 diamonds, always one of each.

Has anybody else had this problem? I don't understand it.. we've never had them on our team its always us against them. Also the fact it's always a Plat V and Diamond V is pretty strange.

7 Comments

ProfDrDeath11/16/2014, 1:35:03 PM2 votes

Premades and normal matchmaking =/= ranked matchmaking =/= teambuilder matchmaking.

CoolKnightST11/16/2014, 2:02:08 PM1 votes

Well it's still better than waiting 30 minutes to find a full team. On certain moments it's just crazy to find a compleet team. First it was only support & adc that where difficult to find. Now it's also the jungler that joined the party.

Phraust11/16/2014, 1:32:53 PM1 votes

Just got in another game.. this time blind pick. I'll return to show the score after bot lane gets steamrolled.

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What's up with matchmaking.

Kledy McKledFace11/16/2014, 4:29:53 PM1 votes

and yet riot isnt listenning to the community. we want tb to be changed or removed just like azir ult.... TB is been almost 6 months they totally ignoring us and azir its been a month

Foxfeathers11/16/2014, 5:24:17 PM1 votes

It's broken yeah. Just since the new map I always seem to get put against a bunch of gold people or at the very least silver. I'm Bronze 5 because I've only played a few ranked games a long time ago so I'm fortunate to be much more skilled than my rank but I can't say as much for my team that generally just gets jellyrolled because they're against ridiculous matchups. It's a problem for the higher-ups, not just the bronzies. Because getting put in with a bunch of people who don't play at your level and throw with you there is frustrating. I've seen more angry raging this week than ever.

SmokingPuffin11/16/2014, 6:04:21 PM1 votes

Team builder has a significantly more difficult matchmaking problem than draft. It's trying to adjust for player skill with a given champ, allow teams to be built by a captain rather than just a numeric comparison, and match specific role/lane selections into teams. Add into that the crushing lack of competent players queueing for support, and until recently the relatively low pop of the queue, and you're just asking for impossible matchmaking problems.

That said, the bad stuff is significantly bad when it happens. Yesterday I played a game where a gold 4 Vayne got matched into a game featuring 3 masters, 5 diamonds, and 1 plat. Needless to say, Vayne got mercilessly stomped to something like 1-12-4, her team raged at her for losing the game (which was accurate), and it was a generally awful experience for all involved.

I would really like team builder to work, as it's a great way to practice a particular champion, but it seems we have the same problem we've always had -- too few supports leading to long queues for other roles, which leads to few teams being made, which leads to matchmaking of dubious quality.

Kledy McKledFace11/16/2014, 4:28:23 PM1 votes

you better go vs bots team builder doesnt work at all it makes bad games because theres always a team that is far ahead of the other. Ive never had a clsoe game in tb ive always destroyed the other team or got destroyed. The problem with tb is that riot tought they should make the matchmaking with the experience you have with the champion at the position youre trying instead of your MMR or rank which is idiot because ive seen so many diamonds players going vs bronze and silvers.... And riot wants us to be gentles to make GG when they doing all the can to create bgs