When a team steamrolls another, it is poor matchmaking?

Booty Alabama·5/17/2015, 11:19:25 PM·2 votes·239 views

I feel like whenever I play a few matches in a row where every lane loses horrendously that there has to be some level of poor matchmaking. If every lane just has better players or gets outplayed, I feel it wasn't an even match. Correct? I don't really what to do but what's some opinions?

3 Comments

Wickedfates5/17/2015, 11:26:48 PM2 votes

yes... yes it is ... but at the same time it is not... according to many much more smart people than me, the game is designed to give a 50/50 win/loss rate.... so if u exceed that you deserve to be a higher rank... yaaaa!!! if you fail, you deserve to be at ur rank or fall below it... oh noes.....

so... when you play 1000 games, 500 should be wins, 500 losses... if you are on a streak of wins... say 20 more than you should be to remain 50/50 ratio then the computer match making system will begine to place you with less able people... on losing streaks....

and the other team with higher ranked people, on winning streaks... so on... to equal ur games again...

search both the boards and the forums and you will find amazing amts of info about this vry topic as well as an amazing about of dross... also reddit... riot loves reddit....

Mandang05/17/2015, 11:42:35 PM2 votes

Most likely it's poor matchmaking.

Sure, it's possible there was just a series of lucky bounces that made an evenly-made match a blowout, and sure snowballing expands differences more, but neither of these are one-way streets, and if your team is getting blown out a lot, it's almost certainly Riot's matchmaking's fault.

Ellphi5/17/2015, 11:22:06 PM1 votes

No

League is relatively snowbally, and teams often have a huge drop in morale if they're behind. Also a losing lane affects ALL lanes because you lose that much map/objective/jungle pressure.

If everybody were robots and played without emotion, then there'd be a lot fewer 'steamrolls'