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Fix your matchmaking.

Inari Fox Orrion·12/17/2019, 5:49:49 PM·9 votes·9,105 views

I don't know if you're running out of players to match together (I wouldn't be surprised, given the state of your client & balance) or if you're just trying to make up for my 30-game winstreak earlier, but there's something boring about a match where the entire team is 1 to 10 by 8 minutes. Like, I don't typically AFK but you'll notice a few leaves in my match history. A closer look will probably let you know exactly why: those matches barely qualify as 'gameplay' because my input into them has no effect on the outcome. A flaming Jhin bitching about your pick, who then sits passively at turret not even playing? A Vladimir who goes 0/3/0 within the first five minutes? A Zed who doesn't R a Yasuo when Zed's under his own turret fighting Yasuo?

With the state of this matchmaking & the game in general, I'm astounded that more people haven't quit. Keep it up though, Riot. People have limited patience, and I'm very close to outright quitting your sad, broken, unbalanced mess of a game that CertainlyT ruined for you and that you refuse to fix.

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Unker13912/17/2019, 6:44:39 PM4 votes

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I don't know if you're running out of players to match together (I wouldn't be surprised, given the state of your client & balance) or if you're just trying to make up for my 30-game winstreak earlier, but there's something boring about a match where the entire team is 1 to 10 by 8 minutes. Like, I don't typically AFK but you'll notice a few leaves in my match history. A closer look will probably let you know exactly why: those matches barely qualify as 'gameplay' because my input into them has no effect on the outcome. A flaming Jhin bitching about your pick, who then sits passively at turret not even playing? A Vladimir who goes 0/3/0 within the first five minutes? A Zed who doesn't R a Yasuo when Zed's under his own turret fighting Yasuo?

With the state of this matchmaking & the game in general, I'm astounded that more people haven't quit. Keep it up though, Riot. People have limited patience, and I'm very close to outright quitting your sad, broken, unbalanced mess of a game that CertainlyT ruined for you and that you refuse to fix.

How would you design a matchmaker that doesn't give you a flaming jhin, a losing Vladimir and a zed that doesn't R a yasuo when you expect them to?

Do you realize that the matchmaker assigns teams before champion picks. Do you realize that the matchmaker has no idea if someone is going to flame? Do you realize that the matchmaker has no idea how you expect your teammates to play?

Master Griefer12/17/2019, 8:21:12 PM4 votes

put me down for wanting to leave this game . matchmaking in ranked ruins the fun for me. i just so tilted when i play that i dont even want to bother anymore. def have stopped buying skins. not gonna waste a dime on this game anymore

The thigh guy12/17/2019, 8:24:31 PM2 votes

They miss match games for that good old Chinese Internet cafe market.

Games are faster is they are all one sided fuck fests. :D

Raiyza12/18/2019, 1:52:34 AM2 votes

Holy fuck plat 4 is terrible. I just hit it last week, and nearly every single game I played is as one sided as fucking silver was. Players make the same fucking mistakes over and over.

H00KIE12/18/2019, 4:13:23 PM1 votes

Also, all the champions in that game look similar visually. It's not like this game, where Jax looks like he is from a Ps1 cutscene compared to Irelia or some other new champ/champ rework. Every match in League is a weird combination of characters made in this era and characters made in the stone age. It's really offputting.

Jiali12/17/2019, 6:17:34 PM1 votes

Idk fam, same story since the game came out and League is still growing even with quitting players (who usually return anyway at some point for any length of time). You'll climb as you gain enough skill to take over games and put them away yourself consistently. If you are struggling you should watch some content. Games will fe unwinnable and out of your control until you learn to take control of them. Every Elo is a new challenge and a new beast. Really good players have no problem climbing through our ranks with whatever champion they want to play so we know it's not luck. Just chill out, take a break from the game if you need it or quit for a couple weeks until the game stabilizes for the new season and come back fresh. GL my guy

Ward Baron12/19/2019, 8:09:58 PM1 votes

I agree match making is complete shit and you need to stop matching such a range of skill together. Its like showing up to a football game and mixing little Timmy next door directly opposed to an NFL player and saying its balanced somewhere on the other team doesn't change Little Timmy is in direct line of fire of that pro player and he's going to get steam rolled so hard and fast that you can't stop him or have time to match him.

bot lane is back to just snowballing out of Controll so fast if your top lane you just can't deal with them unless both mid and jungle are well ahead as well.

Arammus12/17/2019, 9:26:08 PM1 votes

no. haha. buy our prestige skin.

Disembark12/17/2019, 11:09:58 PM1 votes

Consistently do no damage in every game you play. Low kill participation in every game. Your lack of skill is probably the reason you are hardstuck silver.

His Bonnie12/17/2019, 11:37:46 PM1 votes

I think one problem is that people are set in their roles. A lot of people refuse to play/learn any other role(s) than the two they picked so when they're autofilled they int. And because the matchmaker is trying to give everyone their pref roles, ques are longer. Plus you have people who go on win streaks (whether they're smurfs or not) and get put into games they shouldn't be in.