Honestly fix your **** matchmaking screenshot inside guess who won ppl.

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Matchmaker isn't fair. Yes, both teams have the same MMR but that doesn't mean the teams are fair. Here is an example from my plat promos:

Team A = 100 Top = 20 Mid = 15 (gold 3) Jun = 20 Bot = 20 Sup = 25

Team B = 100 Top = 20 Mid = 25 (plat 2) Jun = 20 Bot = 20 Sup = 15

As you can see, both teams have the same total MMR but B team has the advantage. Their plat 2 Katarina destroyed our gold 3 Orianna and then our nexus. I strongly believe Riot needs to do away with MMR and just match people +/- 1 of their division.

1000% agree and for flex do something easy fix

If bronze you can queue with silver - silver with bronze and gold, plat with gold and plat and diamond, etc but make it so once u invite ur plat friend u cannot invite ur bronze friend for the purpose of that game or we/

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Matchmaker isn't fair. Yes, both teams have the same MMR but that doesn't mean the teams are fair. Here is an example from my plat promos:

The teams don't have the same MMR though. It's 1677 vs 1990.

The problem you talk about is very real, but the solution you propose would do absolutely nothing about it.

Your problem is matching skills evenly lane by lane. This is hard to do, unless people all have the same skills, because you can't know in advance who will go in what lane, but if everyone has the same skills, it doesn't matter who goes where, you can be sure people fighting each others will have the same skills too.

So what you propose is "let's put only people from +/- 1 division", thinking that should ensure all people having roughly the same skills. But that's wrong. MMR is a more accurate measure of one's skills than division, and the match-making already tries to get players all with the same skills. When that's not the case, it's because there are not enough players from the same skill online looking for a game.

Really depends on whether or not the A-holes and trolls see your thread before the normal boards users.

tl;dr: No they don't tries to keep people at 50%. They try to match people evenly, which leads naturally to a 50% winrate, which is completely different, because if you play against people the same level as you, you should win half the time.

Long version:

The system forcing you to 50% winrate is a myth. The goal of matchmaking is to put you at 50%, but that is not how it actually performs the matching. It simply tries to match you against opponents (and teammates) of the same level as you, so you should naturally win 50% of the time.

All this misunderstanding comes from the fact that matchmaking doesn't actually know your true level of skills, it just has your ELO as the best information available. If you get a win streak and you get your ELO higher than your real skills, the matchmaking will give you matches too hard for you and you will lose, but that's fair, because you actually deserve to lose ELO.

And the system most definitely does NOT gives you bad teammates to force you to lose! Just try to see the situation from the point of you of every player. Because in your scenario there are three kinds of players (you, unfairly screwed; your bad team; the good enemy team) but for the system there is only one kind of players: those it has to match in order to create a game.

If it wanted to force a loss on you because you had won "too much", who does it put in the "bad team" with you? People from lower ELOs that are at 50% winrate? But why would it punish those players and give them a free loss? And who's gonna be in the "good team"? Because these lucky guys just got handed a free win. Who does the system should give this free win too?

Whatever way your turn it over, it just doesn't make any sense.