Riot's Matchmaking System Sucks

AShortJoke·5/1/2017, 9:35:21 PM·9 votes·2,050 views

I vehemently disagree with the way Riot has their matchmaking system set up. I am currently gold 4, highest rank gold 2, but I was demoted two ranks in one day for the reasons I'm about to go into. I think that for a gold player, I'm above average. Most solo queue players come into league by themselves and don't have anyone who knows the game to teach them. I have a high diamond friend who is a jungle main just like me who frequently played normals with me and taught me how to be a better player. As a result, I quickly climbed to gold 2, but then everything changed. I suppose Riot matchmaking figured my mmr was getting too high so I started getting paired up with some of the worst players I've ever seen in gold. I felt like I was in an episode of wood division adventures every game for like 15 games in a row. I've had some bad loss streaks in the past but this was something else. I don't care if you're faker, if your entire team feeds every game for 15 games. you're going to have one hell of a time carrying. As a result, my rank went from gold 2 to gold 4 in a matter of hours and my mmr tanked from plat 5 to silver 1. That's just complete bs. Riot has this thing set up all wrong. If your mmr is high like mine was, you shouldn't get paired up with shitters to prove you can carry them game after game. What should happen is you should get paired with and against people with the same mmr as you regardless of their rank so that you can prove you can play at their level. I want to know who thought it would be a good idea to reward good play with bad teammates, because that person needs to be fired, like ASAP. This occurrence pretty much completely turned me off to the game, I'm just sick of all the stupid shit Riot pulls. I may or may not continue playing league after this, but I want Riot to know that they are certainly losing players because of shit like this and they need to change it.

5 Comments

Boxolo5/1/2017, 10:25:21 PM4 votes

Agreed. It just feels impossible to win a game as a solo support player. Most of the time I think they don't even know what they are doing. And once I see a chance of winning, someone goes afk or just simply ragequit. It's no fun anymore, although I love this game, I might quit too.

AShortJoke5/1/2017, 9:39:14 PM3 votes

If you look at my na.op.gg page, you'll see that I have exceptionally high win rates on all the champions that I play the most. The exception is Diana but just ignore that, I used to be a Diana otp but she just fell so far out of the meta that I couldn't win with her anymore so I've stopped playing her for now.

Angel Roo1/8/2020, 3:21:03 AM1 votes

Like riot even pays attention to this shitt. I leave them tickets all the time to saying its bugged because why else would i be in Ilver 2 promo games and all the sudden matchmaking decides "hey wouldn't it be a good idea to give this guy 2 bronze players in all of his silver 2 promo games?" Or right now how it made me have a bronze 3 maokai support who overextended and was punished every time which lead to losing lane and then the enemy rengar getting 3 free kills generously donated by the unranked master yi on my teem. This is why i fuckingg hate this game. Riot fix your bullshitt matchmaking to only match you with players near your rank.

Caytheles1/8/2020, 3:32:43 AM1 votes

Exactly!!! This morning i had a 70% winrate in ranked. And out of nowhere i get a silver on my team and the enemy gets a plat! (Im gold 3). Along with half of my team having sub50% winrates.

I know winrates arent everything, but they tell you something. i started to understand those people that look up match history at champ select. in one game i was even complimented for not being a "Shitter" before the person dodged. i then proceeded to look through my Almost teammates histories,,,,all of them. 30-35% runrate and on a losing streak meanwhile i had a 7 game winstreak.

Dont believe me? https://u.gg/lol/profile/na1/caytheles/overview all my games i do my absolute best, but as you can see in my losing games, look up my teammates and you will see they run it down mid on the regular. This is truly unacceptable.