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Bronze matched against Diamond

TheUnrepentant·5/2/2019, 4:41:44 AM·3 votes·1,295 views

This will probably ramble a bit as I write it, I'll try to put the relevant bits up front. In gameplay not rant because I think it's a valid critique of the matchmaker.

Until today I've never intentionally left a match. Played over two thousand norms and enough ranked that I'd catch silver (and quit there) every season. Today for the first time I intentionally got up and left a match with no intent to return. I don't feel bad about it and I'd do it again. My apologies to my teammates (two of whom I've talked to), but zero to Riot. And here's why:

I'm currently bronze. Would normally put enough into ranked to hit silver and probably would do that this season. Someday I thought I might really try and hit gold. Today I was matched with a gold 4 mid laner against me who proved that I had a long way to go. We won the match even though I lost lane, my teammates carried me. The game after that I was getting destroyed even worse. At one point I was down 40 CS and four kills. Worse than that, it felt like no matter what I did, I'd die. Finally I decided that the utter lack of fun in this game and the anger stemming from that feeling of helplessness was toxic to real life and I shut the laptop. That mid laner is currently ranked diamond four. At that point I felt justified. In no reasonable way could Riot match me up against a rank that desperate from my own and expect me to stand a chance. I've never read the EULA entirely, but I'd say the basic contract between gamer and company is as follows: "I will play your game and not be toxic, if in return the game is fun and fair." As such, to me Riot breached that contract by allowing this match up. I'm not advising anyone leave games, and I don't know where the line of "reasonable matchup" falls, but this match up missed the mark.

I'm sure the boards will tear me apart with "git gud" and "quit whining you scrub". But I feel justified in leaving that match, change my mind.

TL;dr fix match making

PS this is my only account and I've invested many hours and some money into it. If it gets banned over this I'll be sad, and I'll probably not create a new account. I've got too many mastery 6&7s, too many skins, to many champions unlocked, and no where near the free time I used to.

PPS one person I play with was of the opinion that the mid laner I was facing was in fact cheating. I have no proof, yet for things to reset on that ability without meeting parameters seems sketch.

5 Comments

Sukishoo5/2/2019, 4:46:57 AM2 votes

Seeing as it was a normal you're talking about, those have different MMR that has no bearing on what someone is in ranked. I've won matches with and against master tier players and just as easily lost them. It's all just part of the game.

Waka FIocka5/11/2019, 12:00:03 AM2 votes

I was in a draft game earlier against a premade enemy team with a Diamond IV player. They ran circles around us and the Diamond guy linked his stream at the end. I don't really understand why matchmaking would pit solo queue players 2-3 ranks under the star of the enemy team. They queued together as well so it was especially terrible. Having the twitch link at the end was frustrating as well because, great, now you know that some people out there are laughing at your team failing against an overstacked team and unfair matchmaking system. I felt really bad especially for the bronze and silver on my team. There was literally nothing we could do to win that game. Nothing.

edit: some people don't want to play ranked and actually care about draft. I never understood the mentality behind "oh it's just norms" or the matchmaking not taking ranked MMR into account in norms or whatever. I don't understand the system that is in place and it seems very convoluted and flawed in my opinion. I either stomp or get stomped. Very rarely is there a game that the teams are semi-evenly matched in skill. Which is a bummer... because those are the best games. Those games are the most fun.

cuddlykitten45/2/2019, 4:49:10 AM1 votes

There is no quid pro quo in the EULA. They don't have to give you anything in return for what they require of you to have an account such as not being toxic or going afk. They don't have to make it fair or fun. You are voluntarily playing a game in which all cash transactions are voluntary and in no way required to benefit, begin, or continue the service. You agree to terms of service. The account they give you is the trade off they make. Say you're in someone's house. They don't have to guarantee you will have a fun and fair time, or accommodate you in any way, in order to expect you to follow the rules of the house. You follow the rules or get kicked out. It's their house, it's their rules, and all technical correctness would be in their court.

MordridtheBlack5/2/2019, 4:24:43 PM1 votes

i'm not sure how much good adding in that mmr system into normal matchmaking would do

given that the system is already partly broken as is due to how it conflicts with actual rank (even if you have none)