Problem with matchmaking in Nexus Blitz

StayyFrostyy·12/26/2018, 10:24:57 AM·5 votes·5,062 views

So recently the games in nexus blitz felt somewhat one-sided even tho everyone was trying really hard to make plays and help the team. Then out of curiosity, I googled what ranks each player had and this was the result.....

https://imgur.com/Xe2g5hH

Excuse me, but WTF...... how is anyone supposed to win against the first one? Please don't tell me "oh if you have teamwork everything is easy", cause that is not the case. The skill difference is too big for it to give anyone any chance and it is just sad. How are you supposed to enjoy the game when it is only a stomp 24/7?

I remember once I had a game where there was the entire spectrum: bronze, silver, gold and plat. Is the mmr supposed to be that broad in this game mode? In the future keep it tighter cause nobody will have fun in it.

Thank you.

8 Comments

Tomoe Gozen12/26/2018, 3:33:28 PM4 votes

Your ranked MMR doesn't impact normal game MMR, ARAM, TT or Nexus Blitz queues. They all have separate MMR.

To me, it's completely ludicrous that every time there's a feeling like you're getting unfair opponents or teammates, people try to pull the same Ranked SR statistics regardless of the mode/map in question, in order to provide evidence that Matchmaking doesn't work. There is no Ranked Nexus Blitz mode so anyone trying to make "this team is all Diamonds while my team is all Iron" argument, just doesn't work.

This argument would've been the same if you had a team of 5 professional basketball players going against 5 amateur basketball players on an ice rink challenge for the first time. What difference does their basketball experience make in ice skating? Absolutely none. And if you lost to these 5 basketball pros, would you really blame the organizer of the event that they had an unfair advantage, in a challenge that didn't even require of them to use their pro basketball skills in the first place?

Let me get back to my previous argument: What's there to "skillfully" play in Nexus Blitz? It's a map completely different from SR, it has a completely different strategy, Baron and Dragons are gone, you have a jungle and a smite (you also double jungle so there's no X champ is just a terrible jungler), you can gank easily, you have arena matches, animated nexuses, some crazy buffs for winning/losing events... this experience is not SR experience. Therefore you can't compare SR ranked statistics in matchmaking over there to look for "more appropriate" teammates.

More "League practiced" players do pick up on mode nuances faster and understand the game mechanics better in a few tries (compared to a newer player) but you can't expect your exact carbon copy on the other side to make sure that both of you understand this new mode with the same speed and could reach the same conclusions in the same amount of time. There's more to player skill that reflects who they are and how they play League than with an MMR rating (their tier and division).

VortexV912/26/2018, 11:35:12 AM2 votes

Don't worry ppl usually say: BUT HE DIDN"T PLAY WITH HIS FULL POTENTIAL, HE DIDN'T TRYHARD SO YOU CAN BEAT HIM

Matchmakin in Nexus and Normal games is just.... God...

hhaavviikk12/26/2018, 1:09:29 PM2 votes

where's the problem? match making for ranked, normal, ARAM and nexus blitz are all separate so obviously their ranked ranks wouldn't matter for match making in nexus blitz

Fargo7912/26/2018, 1:07:56 PM1 votes

WHO the fuck cares about Nexus Blitz Match making.. its a fun mode..

Nea10412/26/2018, 2:07:02 PM1 votes

The "elo doesn't matter for Normals/Aram/Nexus..." is beyond every level of incompetence. It brings to so many awful games, that is unbelievable they haven't fixed it yet. Too bad this company has never cared about fair matches, especially in Normals, and you easily can see it by the amount of stomps happening all the time. I think this is one of the main issues why this game keeps sinking.

Btw, you probably had a winstreak the games before. Nexus Blitz has a pretty regular (and suspicious) pattern.