Stop Matchmaking Adjustments

Solvein·3/18/2015, 10:54:59 AM·1 votes·623 views

I understand the point of matchmaking adjustments in Team Builder. You want to try a new champion, it's a great way to ease you into that champ while you are learning it. But I hate it. I wish there was a way to disable it. I used to main LeBlanc before the nerf. But the new item seems so good on her. So today, I wanted to try her out. In draft I either couldn't get mid, or LeBlanc was banned. The only way to play her was in Team Builder. Okay, cool. Except that Team Builder doesn't remember that I had like 50+ games with her in season 4 before she lost her silence. So I got matched in a lower mmr game where top fed, and our ADC played like they never played that role before, much less the champion.

I understand some players need that grace to experience and learn new champs. And I didn't troll or flame at all that game. I tried to help my teammates learn their champs as best as I could. For example, our Diana would R, then Q. I explained that landing an R on a champion that's been hit by Q resets the timer for more damage.

But seriously Rito, give us an option to disable Matchmaking adjustments. I don't want to go to the hell of elo hell for 5-10 games on a champion that I've mastered but haven't played since Matchmaking adjustments was implemented or ever in Team Builder. Granted, it's good practice for carrying a bad team, but I can only take so much of it.

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Serevas3/18/2015, 2:05:06 PM2 votes

Not to mention when you're skilled with a champion already from other sources of play it makes the match for the person against you a living nightmare. I got paired up against a Darius who didn't understand the rune system and had AP runes. I played Riven against him (who I had played several times in draft pick) and do you know what he learned? How to troll after repeatedly dying and build 3 pairs of boots.

We took the nexus 25 minutes into that game, I finished 18/0/2, he ended 0/11/2. That was probably 25 minutes of the worst hell he'd ever experienced in this game to boot, but because I was relegated to matchmaking adjustments for not having played Riven in team builder, that happened.