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7 out of my 20 latest NB games are a complete stomps. And there is more to it...

The Darkened··11 votes·7,432 views

It does not depend on character picks or anything else. It's just one team being better in everything than other one. There is also around 5 or 6 games with slithgly different picture: stomped team have a good player, and stomping have a bad one. So, the majority of my games are boring, one-sided stomps that pose no challenge at all... Why? Why does matchmaking puts 5 better players against 5 weaker ones on purpose? Is it the only way to stop winning or losing streak in team games? Some proofs now:

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This is why i also think that granting chests for S rank is stupid. It does not mean you played good, it just means that you had enough luck to be in the stomping team, that's all. If you had an opponents that play at least same good as you do - your score would be close to 10-10, instead of 10-1. Why rank system rewards players for beating weak opponents?

15 Comments

Nea1047 votes

Nexus Blitz is awful, winning or losing:

14 - 35 45 - 31 15 - 32 48 - 20 ...

I understand this mode is "peculiar", but this disgusting pattern is incredibly bad.

Wanna talk about Normals?

11-27 37-25 (10k gold difference!) 24-38 (guess this is the best we can afford?) 43-18 18-36 30-10 35-33 (still 7k gold difference) 28-14 17-30

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/general-discussion/0zXlGwUW-normals-are-awful-to-play-basically-never-a-balanced-match

It's not only all the broken stuff (champions/items/runes); it's also about a flawed/rigged matchmaking. Basically not existent.

No company should allow this kind of incompetence, if they don't want to go out of business. Actually, they've already lost so many players, and I guess they are now in a pretty worse condition. Well deserved, btw.

Noor Sakata3 votes

Well it's a mode for stomping and short matches anyway , that's something you should have already known before playing It's all about those Events , win them and the winning team gets a huge advantage , You still have hope for second event if you lose the first one , but losing first and second event means it's a gg and the winning team will stomp , you can still win if enemy team doesn't end , by attacking that moving nexus

I actually had losing matches where we completely got stomped but still won because we focused the Nexus

The Darkened3 votes

Events have nothing to do with it. In one of last games first event was an URF. We lost without taking a single opponent out of the game, all of them remained on the arena. Outcome is predicted before game even starts, one team is very often 100% weaker than another.

Noor Sakata2 votes

Well Urf can never be balanced , everyone knowns that , there are those champions who are really broken there

The Darkened1 votes

It's not about the picks or events. It's about one team certainly winning the game (and almost any event) despite what they picking.

50Shades0fTrynda3 votes

loose matchmaking system.... + "too much damage" makes the perfect combination for potentially catastrophic matches

Nea1041 votes

Exactly. And they are doing absolutely nothing to fix it, so it's intentional, for some reason.

iPooUnicorns1 votes

https://i.gyazo.com/6749f6956094cfa9bb2ab6ecfcf26293.jpg

Stomp intensifies

3ternalkarma1 votes

i mean NB snowballs harder than normals do since you get even MORE damage if you get ahead with that buff

Full Brain1 votes

What champions you have does matter there are busted and terrible champs in the mode. It is mostly about which team has people who know how the game mode works though. When the junglers don't know how the xp and gold sharing or pathing works or when the laners don't match numbers and roam after pushing waves in or help junglers secure buffs. When people play way too passively and don't all in to secure kills on the on fire enemies.

After the balance changes they made steamrolling mostly happens because of level and gold difference created by those scenarios. Where your team is playing the mode incorrectly and gets down a level or two and doesn't do everything they can to kill the one enemy who is on fire and now suddenly there are two or three and the game is just over.

50Shades0fTrynda1 votes

summoners rift today feel more like twisted treeling few years back when it comes to champions picks ..doesn't it?

2Charmnot2Charm1 votes

It does not depend on character picks or anything else.

Yes it always does matter on champion picks and teamcomps regardless of game mode but thankfully the majority of the champions are viable in nexus blitz anyways.

Moonscourge1 votes

So in what way is it any different to normal games or aram? It has its own MMR and people can go 4 or 5 man premade if they want and just stomp everything since the game can't always account for it and give them premade opponents. Some people don't understand how it works, others dont even try or don't take it seriously. There are many reasons for a stompy game.

On the flipside that Nexus Deathmatch can go both ways. I've stomped people before and we lost in that phase because the enemy got one good teamfight in and vice versa.

Sathelight1 votes

Yeah, matchmaking in NB and normals is a vicious circle... I keep telling myself that if I lose enough I'll stop getting diamonds and plats in my games - then I get them on my team, get carried, stomped, rinse, repeat :O

I'm afraid we all started NB at 1200 MMR so it's gonna take some time till matchmaking fixes itself. My only concern is that low elo players might get frustrated, stop playing and Riot will conclude that we don't like the mode enough to make it permanent :(

Cats Are Food1 votes

Yeah... I've noticed this as well. Some of the events will also completely tip the scales instantly, such as Battle Sled, if they manage to get it as their fist event win.

IT's either a complete stomp, or a complete fail. Extremely rarely does it come to the wire.

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