Riot's matchmaking at its finest... (Ranked)

DarkBillyBoy··1 votes·860 views
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I am usually getting matched only with d5 players (sometimes plat1 and d4 too) in games at 1950 mmr. But sometimes im matched into low plat games... Now this happened : gold 3 gold 2 and a bunch of low plat players in a 1650 mmr game... like wtf.

The only premades in the whole game were Zac and Tristana (gold 3 + plat 5). Our annie (gold 2) was solo, like the rest 8 players. Its also important to notice that everyone had around 600 ranked games played, so everyone's mmr is matching his division. This means the gold 2 annie actually has a gold 2 mmr. Its not the case where some1 smurfs, has 30 wins 5 defeats, is at gold 3 and has platinum 3 mmr...

Rito...... plox.

Edit : i mean... annie asked me to duo after that game, but i am diamond and she is gold. according to riot we cannot duo bcs we of our huge elo difference, but at the same time, it places us in the same game. makes sense right ? :)[zombie-brand-facepalm]

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Iageri1 votes
DarkBillyBoy1 votes

i did. i started with the dark seal, went mejais 1st item, and gg wp'ed the game. but it was a bad game. everyone flamed tf (my opponent) and generally everyone was playing like a monkay. zero objectives zero teamwork everyone running around...

it was a bad experience... :/

Iageri1 votes

Wow.. Poor TF..

generally everyone was playing like a monkay. zero objectives zero teamwork everyone running around...

All them boosted animals people talk about up there, ami right? xD

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

ok but do you see the total teams mmr ? they are what 20 points different ? so it seems like it on the surface according to mmr would be a fair matched game? is there something im missing? 1655 mmr vs 1677?

PhDs Nuts1 votes

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ok but do you see the total teams mmr ? they are what 20 points different ? so it seems like it on the surface according to mmr would be a fair matched game? is there something im missing? 1655 mmr vs 1677?

A game can be MMR balanced with a challenger vs bronze top lane and a bronze vs challenger jungle. The top lane is going to get shit on. Individual matchups are important and why Riot's system is stupid.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

there is no perfect system in a multiplayer game. what do you want them to do? people bitch about how long queue times are in high elo cuz of dynamic queue. so riot tried adjusting the formula to decrease queue times. in doing so they have to "drag a bigger net" to get enough players in the roles they wanted to match a game. (words used by riot themselves regarding queue times in high elo that posted a video of discussion with scarra and gbay99) and the higher you go up in mmr the longer the waits are sometimes 30mins.

i know in my normal draft mode games if i chose top/adc as my two roles i typically have to wait 3mins on average for a game. and im bottom of the barrel on mmr/elo (i dont play rank) now if i pick support or fill (which is 90% of the time support) i can get a game quicker but im subjected to playing support only. even as a support main that gets old sometimes i wanna go top lane and play some tree and branch slap some hoes. lol.

how much elo is there between plat 2 and diamond 5 ? plat 2 would be roughly 2000 mmr and diamond 5 2200. so for plats to play vs low diamonds is even. each team had a low mmr player *gold * its a fairly even match considering the butchered system that is dynamic queue

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