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Yo Rito you may wanna reconsider your matchmaking algorithms

Blue Vanity·4/29/2016, 10:41:44 AM·4 votes·475 views

It's a little too obvious that your matchmaking AI decides who gets to climb and who needs to fall in ranked games. I mean you could at least tell us how to not have our accounts flagged as "needs to lose 40 out of their first 50 games this week" and avoid being paired in teams with an average of two divisions behind the enemy.. Every game... for 30 to 50 games.. Like, reaaaal obvious that something's up with an account when this happens. I know you've invested a lot of time into this pairing system and it's probably pretty sophisticated but... It might be good to remove a few lines of code from it so maybe some players won't be on the lesser team, for dozens of consecutive games.. And I know that your system starts pairing us more fairly if we manage to win more of these games than we're supposed to.. But it really does end up being a waste of our time and a waste of our fun when all we have to look forward to after our record of the last 30 games is every lane going 0-6 or worse, not getting a single dragon.. Not to mention how tilted our allies are during these times, because many of them too are under similar circumstances.. And the enemy team, oh stars the enemies... Five people.. Two divisions above your team's... High on max prescription adderall... Just finished watching a 72-hour Esports marathon.. I mean come on. Please consider revising some of the way your AI works.. Or at least, you know, reveal one solid piece of information about it to us. Not the typical "Oh it's based on hidden numbers called MMR" or any of that, but.. Just a direction people might want to go if they plan to avoid horrific circumstances over a long period of time.

PS: To further reinforce my suspicion, during these times i'm always paired against my most experienced friends, rather than paired in games alongside them.

"The power of friendship will carry us to victory!" - Best quote ever, cited from unknown.

4 Comments

FACE THE WlND4/29/2016, 11:12:14 AM1 votes

Intelligent title hides stupid thread. Everybody get your tinfoil hats!

Jarno IV4/29/2016, 11:33:26 AM1 votes

Matchmaking is a total grind I agree, there is 0 balance. I have a lot of unpleasant games, both ways around. Either I win extremely hard or it is an obvious lose from minute 1. Now you won't hear me complain over a win but imo the matchmaking is not good at all, mostly one of both teams is extremely dominant in almost every lane. Winning or losing that hard is both not much fun, balance certainly lacks imo, I miss games where it's unpredictable who will win cause both teams are strong and have decent members instead of one team getting completely rekt from minute 1. Now i don't agree on him saying matchmaking is made to make you lose 60-80% of your upcoming games but I do think matchmaking is still not good.

Celeste Benal4/29/2016, 6:42:54 PM1 votes

Naw, I think casuals play ranked at certain times of the day/week. Weekends are especially bad. I have much better games weekday evenings than any other time. Parents make their kids do homework and such during the week, except on vacation weeks.

For example, I tried playing ranked this last week (spring break). It was horrible. I've also pretty much given up on ranked on the weekend.

Critical Gank5/1/2016, 6:15:25 AM1 votes

I can agree that their is a load of hidden MMR bs. I can say this with experience. For example: Coming into this season I was placed a S2. I went from S2-g1 in about 1.5 weeks. I was playing with challenger boarder players, people who actually knew how to play their roles, people who didn't rage, people who wanted to win. I'm not saying just my teams were like this, I mean every single person in the game, all 10 players were great. Games lasted 45-50min and they were nail biters.

So how does one go from s2-g1 in less than a week to lose 4 games in a row and get demoted to G2? Ok, that's all fine and dandy but after this happened ever since its like my MMR has dropped from 1800 in G1 to 1200 in G2. Match games were different. I was in games where it was either a blowout win or lose by 20 kills. People would want to surrender at 20 after being down by 8 kills. It is obvious that some accounts can be flagged from climbing too high.

Oh what was that? Am I mad that I dropped from g1 to g2? Uh no, Im mad because now after my last 40games im G4 and still losing 80% of my games... If I were to tell someone to bet 500$ on one of my games, I would bet against my team, that's how unconfident I am when going into queue's now.

So Riot, please stop flagging people for climbing obnoxious amounts of MMR. One will end up in the league they need to be without your help.