Matchmaking rework

ImEMBR·Apr 4, 2018·1 votes·361 views

Recently I have been playing really well in ranked and still losing duo to team losing lanes and that lane destroying us, so it got be thinking about how accurate the matchmaking actually is, what do you guys think to having matchmaking be based off average kda instead of weather you win or lose, this will stop “noobs” being boosted by smurfs and allow better players to climb more easily, hopefully if enough of you like the idea riot will actually listen and change it, let my know your thoughts ty

4 Comments

Unker139Apr 4, 20182 votes

Average KDA for bronze is 2.26. Average KDA for challenger is 2.89. Thats a really small range to rank a million people.

Plus, my KDA on jinx is 1.2 with a 55% win rate. My KDA on janna is 2.0 with a 25% win rate. So I would move up in ranks faster by losing with janna than by playing a champion i can win with.

The problem with putting any skill stats into a matchmaker is that boosting the stat becomes more important than actually winning...which is the goal. If you acheive the goal (win), you are a better player. How you get there is irrelevant...kills, wards, objectives etc... can all contribute. All of them are necessary skills, but how important each one is still depends on the champions in the game on both sides, the strengths and weaknesses of all the players om both sides and the current meta....and the goal of the game is still to win.

A weaker player might get carried for a few games, but wont get carried for a hundred of them. A good player will carry more than they are held back in the long run.

ImEMBRApr 9, 20181 votes

The thing is, I’m an adc main and as an adc when the assassins are fed there is very little I can do to carry, especially when I have an Inting support, do you think it’s right that mmr is based of win and not skill? And I mean in ranked then kda, obviously I don’t mean for challenger to be matched with silver

FOR JUSTICEApr 4, 20181 votes

Basing it off of kda biases it towards roles that just get more kills. It would also make climbing biased towards people who play solely for themsleves in a team game and spike in teams refusing to group.

Then one lane losing and you getting stomped isnt the matchmakers fault.

ImEMBRApr 9, 20181 votes

It isnt 1 lanes, I mean jungles not helping or getting good lanes fed, mid lane feeding Zeds and kata and people playing champs for the first time and feeding everyone, I recently had a support tint all lanes because the arc “let her die” and “I don’t care about ranked”