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Leveling Queue's are a pretty broken experience

Carcus80·4/5/2015, 9:09:45 AM·1 votes·724 views
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Guys,

I'm leveling up with a friend, LoL's game play is compelling which is the only thing keeping me around at the moment.

Matchmaking while leveling seems pretty broken, I'm regularly getting put into games with one or two 30's on just one team.

Now this is kinda gamebreaking, I'm yet to see it end without the team with the 30's winning convincingly. This is regardless of whats happening in other lanes and the jungle. Its completely sucks the fun out of the game.

Now I linked the ONLY info I've been able to find on the systems design, its from 2009 and if anyone's got anything newer or related, I'd love to see it. However as its what I've got lets discuss.

> The basic priorities of the system are in order: > 1) Protecting newbies from experienced players. > 2) Fairness & creating competitive matches > 3) Finding a match at all. The longer you wait, the less important priorities #1 and #2 are.

No.1 right! Ah yes, awesome that's what I'd expect! Good stuff, people can learn to play the game without these no-fun experiences, and will stick around. BUT IT'S NOT WORKING

No. 2 Bamn! Exactly! 30's on one team, is not competitive.

I know most of the people on the boards will be 30, and wont remember low lvls, think about this,

Runes and masteries on an ADC for example add up to ~ 1 longsword + rejuve bead + faerie charm, thats 600+ gold. Your effectively starting a player with 2 kills worth of gear ahead.....

**No. 3 **Yes, makes sense nobody wants to wait forever... but I'm not noticing long queue times, everything is regular, aka 1:00-1:30 queue pops..

I'm at the point I would sink some money into this game but I just cant see myself slogging through this for 10 levels.

5 Comments

Faith Breaker4/5/2015, 9:15:37 AM1 votes

What level is your friend you are playing with?

Carcus804/5/2015, 9:25:24 AM1 votes

24? He's playing a little more than me, but this most recent game (and quite often) I was solo queue'd

ImABowlOfSalad4/5/2015, 1:27:12 PM1 votes

I experienced the same problem as I just recently started playing and I was leveling with a friend who is 30. Needless to say I was getting WRECKED early game because everyone had full masteries and runes while I had none. I play a lot better solo queuing but I still get matched with people considerably higher than me though I can tell their skill level is about the same as mine. Thats a big part of it I think

Skia Asteri4/5/2015, 1:40:21 PM1 votes

As far as I know, level 30's only end up in matches with lower levels if they are in a pre-made group with people that are also below level 30. Then it tries to match pre-made groups against each other. Because level 30's are usually separate, it makes the match making weird.