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Why some matches are one sided

Get Rekkkt·1/19/2015, 9:01:25 AM·17 votes·6,154 views

matchmaking should match people based on each players mmr, not the whole teams

team mmr= filling gaps and ends up being lopsided matches alot of the time

matching based on players=more balanced...

why are we not doing this again?

example, team based mmr, as you im sure have all seen (hypothetical numbers but it shows the point) Team A=diamond 1(2000mmr)+bronze5(100mmr)+bronze5(100mmr)+bronze5(100mmr)+bronze5(100mmr)...team mmr=2400

Team B=gold5(480mmr)+gold5(480mmr)+gold5(480mmr)+gold5(480mmr)+gold5(480mmr)...team mmr=2400

^^^ system thinks this is an even match, and it isnt by a longshot

matched by player mmr? example Team A=diamond 1(2000mmr)+bronze5(100mmr)+bronze5(100mmr)+bronze5(100mmr)+bronze5(100mmr)

now the system looks for opponets it should look like this player slot 1=looks for someone around 2000mmr player slot 2-5=looks for someone around 100mmr

why is this not implemented and why is it going by teams?

do you guys agree or disagree? leave a comment why you feel such

63 Comments

Drogmyre1/19/2015, 9:17:35 AM18 votes

I agree, but the one-sidedness of matches isn't the product of shitty matchmaking, though it's a problem.

The issue is that the game is WAY too snowball-friendly. When a 'comeback' happens, it's because the team that was winning was either not that far ahead to begin with or they made a fucking retarded mistake that the enemy team capitalized on.

Dragon buff made this worse, a lot worse, as did the underpowered tower lasers. The very favorable AD meta right now also made this worse, as auto attacks scale off of it and AAs kill towers.

junglerboy161/19/2015, 4:26:19 PM7 votes

For non ranked, this would be a very appreciated change.

Blunts4Brekfast1/19/2015, 3:31:35 PM2 votes

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why is this not implemented and why is it going by teams?

do you guys agree or disagree? leave a comment why you feel such

Riot doesnt want people waiting for an hour for another group to be on searching at the same time with 1 diamond and 4 bronze players.

you know how often that combo has came up? probably less than once a day. youre going to be waiting a long time for a match that exact.

Riot does it because waiting is boring, and your system is bad for the same reason.

qetzel1/19/2015, 4:05:52 PM2 votes

I vote no. I think that it is likely that there is already a system in place that tries to match people of a similar MMR. It is only when there are not enough people of the MMR and that people have been waiting for a sufficiently long time that they are matched unevenly. I would rather have a one sided game than no game at all.

The other reason games are one sided is due to snowballing. An small early advantage can lead to a massive late game advantage.

SexyTaylorSwift1/19/2015, 5:12:58 PM2 votes

When my match is one sided, it doesn't look like this at all. It more so looks like every lane losing or winning lol.

Miku Lv991/19/2015, 11:45:53 AM1 votes

This would make it harder to create games, but not with much gain. If both teams have 1 diamond and 4 bronze V's, I don't think it's a good game at all. Unless the 2 diamonds just happen to be in the same lane, then both teams end up with 1 ridiculously fed champ and 1 really bad feeder that everyone complains about. Even though the feeder may have been the 2nd best player on the team.

And who is going to win that way uneven match? The diamond player? He could probably just get a really farmed Nasus and 1v5 even if the rest of his team was pretty much useless. 480 mmr is almost nothing and the other team probably has almost no ability to fight him.

Leena Guttal1/19/2015, 5:12:04 PM1 votes

Even then, it's not guaranteed that a certain mmr player will lane against an opponent of the same mmr.

tainteddaze1/19/2015, 6:26:51 PM1 votes

i have some accounts that are gold 4-1 and i only get matched up with plat+ players while i get gold 4-1 players on my team most the time. Then on others it matches up the games very evenly in terms of ranking they are. So i think the system is pretty good it keeps you in a range that it thinks you belong in and allows you to crush through it if your better then that range and keeps pushing your range up depending on how fast you go through it all.