This is STUPID! SIX+ YEARS to fix it and you've made it WORSE?!
https://i.imgur.com/nuAXQKJ.png
Our Bronze 4's were levels 53 and 63. My team played like absolute garbage, but I'm not upset at them, I'm upset for them. They played bad because they're basically beginners. I knew before I even looked at OP.GG, just based on their mechanics and their complete lack of macro comprehension. I could see it with my own eyes it was so obvious. And you allowed them to be queued against two players well over level 100?! Morg barely has all her summoner spells, for heaven's sake!
I don't think I've ever felt so terrible for my teammates in League. Ever. Even when I used to feed 20 kills per game because I didn't know what I was doing yet.
By the way, their >100's were a duo queue, too.
Riot. I remember from the day I started playing, people were complaining about matchmaking. Other MOBAs matchmake games just fine. I never have trouble with matchmaking in DOTA. I never have trouble in HotS. Paladins? Nope. I didn't even have trouble in Paragon! But you can't fix this nonsense after all this time?
And, as I said, it's WORSE than I ever remember it being. I'd get mismatches like this maybe once every tenth game back in the day. Now, it's every second or third game. It's not just to my detriment, by the way. Just yesterday I made a post ranting about how you made me feel like crap for ruining some newbie's day in mid.
Why is your algorithm allowing actual newbies to queue with >100 M7 duo queues this often? This needs to stop, Riot. If you run new players off before they even have a chance to find their footing, your game is going to collapse. Veteran players are already starting to leave in larger and larger numbers thanks to the per-patch bugs and the extremely out of hand balance. If you can't keep new players for more than a month, there's no way this looks sustainable.
Fix it, Riot. It's beyond time. Fix the matchmaking.