What's going on with match making?

execratory·Jul 18, 2018·1 votes·723 views

I haven't played since the beginning of last season and started playing again recently. I've noticed match making isn't the same any more. What's bothering me and making me make this post is I no longer play against people of my own rank and when you were in promos you had to fight players who were in that higher bracket to rank up but it's not like that any more. All I fight is silvers and bronze no matter what rank I am. My MMR on op.gg says its normal, well was and it was actually higher, but I still had teammates and opponents I shouldn't be paired with. I don't see how its fair or intuitive to have silvers verse a platinum or vise verse. I don't learn anything, I have a hard time working with my teammates because I expect them to know and do certain things etc. Also, as a platinum I have a huge target on my back against my opponents and they want to camp me 24/7 because I am this rank verse them.

If I don't deserve this rank then have me fight against opponents that are and have them pummel me to where I belong. I worked so hard to get or thought I was getting out of elo hell, but I am still here. Silvers are insanely toxic, rage quitters and its literally a toss up every match, I have a 50/50 chance of winning or working with them. I can't take it anymore, and are seriously consider quitting again. Please bring back the old system where you actually fight people of the same rank and around the same mmr. So is it just me or the player base has dropped drastically and they are just pairing me with lower ranks for better queues times etc?

8 Comments

SammyDayspringJul 18, 20181 votes

I had a promo tonight with a Bronze 5 against a Gold 1 (as well as someone going afk many times for short stints). Matchmaking is an abysmal failure. I don't know when they changed it, but the design is horrible. Instead of a steady climb you get these massive stomps on one side or the other. Even when it is in my favor, it is not fun at all. Riot continues to flunk when it comes to balancing the game on any level.

execratoryJul 18, 20181 votes

Do you know the reason for the change and when it happened?

SammyDayspringJul 18, 20181 votes

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Do you know the reason for the change and when it happened?

No. I don't play that much ranked compared to other modes.

Madsin25Jul 18, 20181 votes

Looked you up.

You have an(estimated) MMR of 1200. That is silver 4.

All of your games have been rather evenly matched.

Bronze 2 - silver 3 is the range of all your matches.

The problem is people get autofilled, and since the majority of low elos only main one role it ruins game quality.

SammyDayspringJul 18, 20181 votes

Not sure what the point of looking me up was. If you are scanning my match history, the majority of my games aren't ranked. That is where I notice the bigger disparity, but maybe I don't pay as much attention to normals. Promotions are particularly bad. I expect them to be harder. What I would expect is that I would be the low person on my team, and I would have to fight a team that would make me prove I deserve a higher level. instead, I am finding that one or two of my teammates is extremely low and that one or two of the enemy team is many levels higher. Seeing bronze against gold isn't unusual. It's a huge difference in skill and experience. Riot is basically saying that to climb, you have to 1v9 and carry a lopsided elo fight.

Autofill is a different problem. As the OP said, the match maker used to put us in more closely match teams. It changes this season or maybe the one before. The new system seems to average out the MMR and call that balanced when the actual levels could be drastically unequal.

Madsin25Jul 18, 20181 votes

You are lying though, because not one of your ranked matches had a gold in it.

SammyDayspringJul 18, 20181 votes

I'm not lying. The site I used to check my game said one of my opponents was Gold 1. Maybe it's wrong, but that is what it said.

Frankly, your checking up on my match history is getting creepy. The original topic still stands, and there have been other topics about the uneven matchmaking. A lot of other people have pointed it out. Stop derailing the OP and move on.

Madsin25Jul 18, 20181 votes

Autofill.