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Match Making, Unbalanced, Completely useless

Sera Blood Moon··2 votes·730 views
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So Riot you talk about caring about your gaming community and how much you care about them. Your preseason changes i get but things that should already be getting nerfed idk about. I'm not here to talk about the fact VI is busted with Courage of the Colossas .

I am here to talk about your match making. I let it go after the first 3 games cause it happens. Its not that bad when there a people in diamond playing against an all bronze or silver team. NO whats stupid is that this is happening repeatedly lately and that THIS TIME it was a D4 against a LEVEL 25. In the mid lane. Your match making doesn't make sense when THAT is happening. What are you people really focused on? Just having people in the higher elo enjoy this game? Cause thats a GREAT impression for a player when they first start playing this game "Hey you know what would be funny? Lets throw a HIGH ELO player against a TOTAL NOOB" why has this happened to me multiple times now? Again why is this going through match making. I get its a norm but let me pass something by. A GAME IS NOT FUN WHEN ITS A TOTAL STOMP FROM CRAP LIKE THAT AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT NEW PLAYERS WANT TO DO WHEN THEY START PLAYING LEAGUE. Get stomped EVERY match

I'm completely sorry if this sounds like rage but again this didn't bother me the first few times but once it gets passed like the 4th or 5th time. THEN it is in fact a problem that needs to be addressed

2 Comments

Thrëat1 votes

Blind pick has always been like that - try to stay out of it.

I do agree match making needs an overhaul when it comes to Flex queue. The games don't come down to skill at all in that queue, it instead really comes down to which team has the overall better ranks.

In Solo/Duo queue if you are a D4 player you have to carry D5-D3s vs an enemy team of D5 to D3s. In Flex queue the same D4 player has to try to carry a game where the enemy team has 3 diamonds and 2 plats while you are the only diamond on your team and you have 3 plats and a gold that you need to now try to carry in order to gain LP. Or easy games wher you randomly go against a team of 2 plats a gold and 2 silvers, where the only thing that matters is how fed you can get off the 2 silvers in the game for an easy win. Or a game where you have a gold 1 support that looks like they are intentionally feeding vs the plat 2 support and the game is lost through bot lane alone because of the constant deaths they get upon reaching lane, giving no window to intervene.

These aren't just stories of what could possibly happen in flex queue, these are examples of what HAS happend in flex queue. Skill doesn't matter, you can consistently outplay the enemy just as hard if not harder than you do in solo q, and at the end of the day the game comes down to which team had the biggest advantage in a lane. Your team has a High plat top lane vs a low gold top lane? You win, nothing else matters. Your bot lane is 2 tiers lower than the enemy bot lane? You lost, nothing else matters. Your mid is a bronze in a premade with his plat friends (Why is this even allowed?) Guess what, you lost, nothing matters because there isn't enough gold on the map to compete with someone that is getting to farm a kill once every minute.

And you'd think "Oh, well if they keep dying they are worth no gold!" Wrong, high elo players are aware of this and they just intentionally feed the guy a kill after killing them 4-5 times so that they are reset and they can continue fiesting off them.

Please fix flex queue. I know it is a new queue, but come on, I've tried to give it the benefit of doubt but theres no doubt left; the queue is broken. I played a game with my friend where he would tell me the match ups of games played, based on rank alone, and 20 out of 20 times I was able to predict which team won, based on nothing but hearing what RANKS the players on each team were. League should be about being able to carry the game through skill and not something that is decided by a coin flip once you load into champ select. Winning or losing shouldn't be 100% predictable based on lolnexus results.

SmokinArt1 votes

I've been in games where the entire team wanted to switch roles in Solo/Duo. I've played games lately where I've been auto filled every other game. I wrote a long forum post about all the stupid happenings this season but then removed it because I felt I might have been to hard on Riot ..... I wasn't, and now regret deleting it

  1. Anyone should have had the option to take placement games in ranked this season with all the HUGE changes you've done pre-season. Not just Flex (since its new) This season ranked is NOTHING like last season.

  2. Trolls are not punished fast enough/hard enough. (leavers, intentional feeders etc) Why do we Lose the same amount of LP if theres a leaver? Makes no sense AT ALL RIOT! I want my LP back!

  3. If a higher ranked player Q's with a lower ranked player, that lower ranked player should be brought up to the higher rank, not the other way around. If they want to be boosted they need to earn it.

  4. Reset the champion Chest rewards, season has started and you haven't done this.

  5. Stop screwing with the jungle and fix other issues. Trolls now stand out of lane and just farm the Krugs as they spawn since you boost their XP. They don't get AFK messages doing this, reporting them is meaningless. This is a form of Giving up without going AFK.

  6. You encourage Smurfs in ranked. That's like an NBA player saying he's 18 to dunk on high school kids. (Genius) "But I wanna play with my friends" No you want to smash on bronze and silvers in ranked, do you really think were that dumb? Play Normals.

  7. Your Auto-Fill is broken, getting pretty sick of players stealing someone else's role because they were given something else by your stupid fill system. Lower ranked players don't give 2 shits about an extra 2 min wait time so they get a team that wants to play the role they receive. This is also something you don't punish, I've heard players say "I don't give a crap about being reported, Riot doesn't do anything"

  8. I realize this is a business and you have Monetary goals. Higher ranked players bring about publicity with their twitch or youtube streams that bring in advertisement opportunities. So You guys are so successful that you really don't give a shit about the pee-wee league anymore. (bronze/silvers) Which make up what, 90% of your player base?

  9. You make changes based on Percentages on the player base. Theres what 30million daily players? even at 1% that's 300k angry customers? Maybe you guys are getting a bit to big for your britches.

  10. I'm a support main for the most part, and unless my team actually get kills, I'm screwed. Ill never get out of elo hell because of it. Encouraging people to NOT PLAY SUPPORT! Riot: "Lets throw some new items at the supports, that'll do it!" I understand removing the aura from support items, but why did you nerf the other stats for support items? like item 3060 why'd you remove the ability power stat? So we will never have enough damage to carry without selling all of the support items and attempting to carry late game(Losing TONS of gold in the process). Supports shouldn't just be for utility or tankiness. In solo/duo its a 50/50 chance your ADC is a complete idiot, or they are laneing against a bronze with 200-300 wins when they've only played 50 TOTAL games. This is broken and as Threat said above "You lost, nothing else matters" You changed support items for one reason and one reason only, Higher Tier premade teams. Screw the rest of us right? Supports in Solo/Duo have less impact now then they did last season. Unless you start the game thinking "F this I'm not gonna just stand back and watch" from the beginning of each match, and not buy any support items at all. This is where your team starts to flame/give up/tilt or whatever stupid non-words this game has inspired. (e.i. meta, an LOL invented meaning to a word)

  11. Flex is TOTALLY Broken, unless your a 5 man team using an outside program for voice you have NO CHANCE of consistent success. Once again as Threat said above "You lost, nothing else matters"

Something is wrong Riot and I have no idea how to fix it or even where I would start in your position, but that's what we pay you guys for right? [zombie-brand-clap]

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