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Let's appreciate how good match making really is in LoL

LaserDeathBlade·6/9/2015, 6:17:09 PM·31 votes·3,610 views

I'm just coming back to LoL after a long period of playing Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm, and EVERY DAY I'm playing LoL, I thank the goddamn heavens and Morello that when I queue into a game as a plat player, there will NOT be 3 Bronze 5's on my team

  • I used to think LoL had ELO Hell, but let me tell you boys - I have seen ELO Hell - and it's far worse than you can ever imagine in LoL.
  • Thank god there are no 5 man 'solo-queue' groups.
  • Thank the lord matchmaking isn't based off 'average team MMR' and that I can expect a certain level of competency out of allies that I'm matched with
  • I'm sorry for ever raging at my LoL allies; I take for granted how good they actually are compared to what I could be matched with
  • _ I will never take my team for granted again - I respect that the allies I'm matched with are on average about as good as I am_

Thank you Rito for logical, balanced matches.

47 Comments

Lordofthepittt6/9/2015, 9:56:19 PM3 votes

Gets into a teambuilder game the enemy team has plat players 'Wtf?'

Z Statistic6/10/2015, 2:43:04 AM3 votes

Except matchmaking IS based on average team mmr... The main difference is that Riot also prioritizes minimizing inteam variance over queue time, which leads to people who are roughly equal in skill on the same team instead of the same average but a diamond with a bronze or something.

HeadHonchkrow6/10/2015, 12:57:21 AM3 votes

The Matchmaking here is bad, but not as bad as others.

Pisdov6/9/2015, 6:45:58 PM2 votes

{quoted}

  • Thank the lord matchmaking isn't based off 'average team MMR' and that I can expect a certain level of competency out of allies that I'm matched with

except that doesn't happen, at least not in silver. routinely getting players in game that would help the team more by afking just so they don't feed. the skill differences between players at this elo is huge.

Ánnîe 6/10/2015, 8:01:24 AM2 votes

sorry but matches aren't balanced and heres a picture while leveling up this account to prove it. a level 22 should never be put vs a MASTER DIAMOND 1 AND DIAMOND 5. EVER. by the way the diamond 1 was also a smurf their main account was in masters. the highest ranked on our team was diamond 5 while their lowest ranked player was diamond 5.

AsheGetsGanked6/10/2015, 2:29:13 AM2 votes

In a sense since you have so many players you can find players "around" ur elo. however, i have seen bad matchmaking and played way too many one sided games. LOL still has a long way to go before i can say matchmaking is good...

g3ntlemen6/10/2015, 5:19:49 AM1 votes

Nah. To be fair though I accidentally queued into draft when I meant to do blind pick, but I was only premade with the guy who had 24 wins. Why they didn't put the guy with 80 wins on the enemy team I have no clue.

iainB856/10/2015, 2:59:11 PM1 votes

So you're comparing a MOBA that has years of data to use for match making to a game that has been out just over a week and has a ton of new accounts to collect data on and sort out?

Dumb thread is dumb.

ImHerVoice6/10/2015, 5:37:25 PM1 votes

Can't tell if trolling honestly. But just so you know it is average. Which means you're gonna be against some guy thats 2.4kmmr but on his team has a 1.9k mmr while your team is 2.1k-2.2k mmrs It's dumb :D

Narasimha6/10/2015, 6:39:54 PM1 votes

Lets compare how many people LoL has, to how many people HoTS has.

Yeah, exactly.

SnowBunnyOfLove6/10/2015, 8:35:00 PM1 votes

Halo 2 has the best matchmaking item 3070

ElJanitorFrank6/11/2015, 3:23:49 AM1 votes

I have a 152% win rate in HotS right now.

That's pretty messed up, but hey, on a personal level I'm not to mad about it.

Funny story, I got into a team that just IMMEDIATELY started to lose and rage. And someone insulted me, you know what they said? "Go back to league."

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/JpQmMFnmgcQl.jpg

Old Man Teeto6/11/2015, 3:28:10 AM1 votes

HotS matchmaking for Hero League is awful. Allowing groups of 5 to que into it then using their average MMR is one of the dumbest decisions ever.

Hopefully, since it's in live launch now the uproar as people hit 30 and experience this utterly dumb system will cause them to change it. To be fair, Blizzard has a fairly good track record of good matchmaking systems eventually

JJI7446/9/2015, 6:26:02 PM1 votes

Question, isn't HotS still in Beta? I would assume the matchmaking would be improved before it goes live.

Although given my PvP experience in WoW, I am perhaps being overly generous.

MarkedOfKane6/11/2015, 10:08:58 PM1 votes

I love getting a level 26 on my team and a Challenger player on the enemy team.

AikidoLawnNinja6/9/2015, 7:50:55 PM1 votes

Starcraft2 used to have a great matchmaking system until League came out. Then half of the SC2 player base quit to play League, and the skill level of everyone who stuck around was insanely higher than in the good ole' days. So you had players who were previously Gold or Plat ending up in Bronze and Silver because there weren't really any low MMR players left to be ranked into Bronze and Silver.

League's matchmaking will continue to be pretty good on average until the player base stops playing and moves on to the next big game. Riot has their work cut out for them in this regard, considering how many other developers are actively trying to knock them off the top of the MOBA mountain.

Pisdov6/9/2015, 8:46:51 PM1 votes

sc2 was pretty much ALWAYS a good matchup in match making, i played it a lot at launch and was low platinum. i hardly ever got matched with someone who was much worse or much better than myself.

Mandang06/9/2015, 9:58:03 PM1 votes

What are you comparing it to? Making a statement like "matchmaking is good" without comparing it to anything is sorta pointless.

AlphaKappaPika6/10/2015, 2:29:39 AM1 votes

If it were that good then if you went positive then you would win 90% of the time, unfortunately at lower divisions thats just not how it works, and it f****ng sucks. This really started happenening to me when I hit silver 3, before silver 3, if i went positive, i won 90% of the time, if i went negative then I lost 95% of the time. after i hit silver 3, my teamates seemed to.. i dont know.. just.. feed. every. single. game. Seriously went 19-8 today and I still lost because entire team was negative. I even got bot ahead, got top ahead, and helped out my jungler, that was a horrible game XD im a little salty about that game still.

The Queen Viper6/10/2015, 4:53:53 AM1 votes

Meh... from my experience, still around 90% of the games that I have played up to Diamond, are complete and utter one-sided stomps. Either my team gets stomped or the enemy, nothing between.