Lots of threads on Ranked Matchmaking
None of them seem to contain the answers I seek, so here are my thoughts.
Matchmaking seems to be up to no good again. It seems as though it isn't until AFTER someone loses a bunch of games that it decides their punishment for winning a few games back to back has been acquitted. Is it a troll? Does it enjoy making people frustrated beyond belief? Why does it see the need to pair the most sour and uneducated (in terms of game knowledge) people with whomever it seems is going to escape where Match Making feels they belong?
To me, it would make much more sense to simply pit the people against higher skilled opponents over putting them with much lower skilled opponents (I.E. People you can trade with, people who understand most of the champions in the game, people who are generally not toxic and finger/pointy). I understand I am silver but this is not just Bronze/Silver/Gold that this is happening in. It seems to be a theme throughout the ladder.
Is player behavior a factor considered by Match Making? Does it try to kill your spirits on purpose by giving you the most loathsome experience possible after you prove that you are a competent teammate? (Yes, I'm speaking out for you Support Mains. Much Love for my Support Mains!) I ask this question because this is a team game. Generally speaking, those types of games should be up to the entire team to dictate how their matches go. At the moment, it highly seems probable that Matchmaking decides that it shouldn't be in your control on how to dictate games.
For instance. A top main will begin to always get 1st and 2nd pick upon entering a lobby. As we know, Top Lane is a very volatile position to play in. If you give a lead, it is most likely not recoverable without some support from another player, yet, Match Making time-and-again places Top Laners in the 1st or 2nd spots in the Lobby Roster. This seems to happen to Mid mains too. Very rarely am I 1st or 2nd Pick when I am placed in the Jungle Role, but very frequently I am placed in the 1st and 2nd picks when I decide to go Top lane or Mid lane (I am assuming this is because I have had great success in both of those roles).
Games are sometimes far too easy, feel empty to win, and can often lead to feelings of overconfidence and superiority to others.
Vice Versa, Games are sometimes too hard to win. Not because of the enemy team, however. It is generally due to having a few members who just flat out ignore communiques from other members on the same team.
There's more to this too (I don't want to drag this out). It seems that the more experience a player has per-se (i.e. more games played), the more frequently the system places the player with lesser knowledgeable folks. On the other hand, the less experienced the player per-se (i.e. very few games played around 100-200) the more this player is matched with people of considerably higher skill.
It may be something obvious to me that I just haven't quite grasped, which if that is the case, a small explanation of why this is so would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I am very confused about how Match Making handles the factors that go into determining how it pairs people together and how it pairs teams against one another.
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