It's 2019, can you please fix normal matchmaking?

Yenn·Feb 27, 2019·4 votes·1,530 views

I'm constantly getting into games where one team is stacked with Diamond players, and the other team is a bunch of random Silver/Gold players. It's actually really sad that matches like this even happen, and even worse that I keep getting thrown into them with 5-10 seconds queues.

Games like this are not remotely fun, and I would honestly rather just go play something else than sit through these 20-30 minute stomps, especially as something as team reliant as jungle.

5 Comments

YennFeb 27, 20193 votes

8 second queue, what the fuck is this?

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I'm on the top team. The other Diamond player is the support, duo'd with one of the Silver players, who is probably a smurf. The Gold player ended the game 5-14-0, the other Silver player ended 3-10-1. Both were queued alone.

Meanwhile, the entire enemy team was a 5-man premade.

This is a massive waste of my time. I don't even want to play this garbage.

SaezioFeb 27, 20191 votes

Blame people for 5-manning and riot for not matching 5-man strictly with 5-man premades.

I get this a lot in ARAM especially late at night when the people queuing are few. I get matched vs 5-man premades that are all 5 aram only accounts as a solo player and my team rarely has more than a duo in it.

haaaaaaalpFeb 27, 20191 votes

No they can’t. You can’t get a good matchmaking system in an environment when people don’t try.

YennFeb 27, 20193 votes

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No they can’t. You can’t get a good matchmaking system in an environment when people don’t try.

What are you even trying to say? It has nothing to do with people 'not trying,' the system doesn't even make an effort to even out the teams. Even if you went strictly on normal MMR (which I'm starting to doubt even exists), it still makes no sense, because my normal win rate is extremely high.

It threw two random Silver and Gold players onto my team against an almost full Diamond premade. Both players were extremely bad and got stomped, which throws the idea that 'lol they just have high normal MMR' out the window. There is no world in which this makes any sense.

haaaaaaalpFeb 27, 20192 votes

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What are you even trying to say? It has nothing to do with people 'not trying,' the system doesn't even make an effort to even out the teams. Even if you went strictly on normal MMR (which I'm starting to doubt even exists), it still makes no sense, because my normal win rate is extremely high.

It threw two random Silver and Gold players onto my team against an almost full Diamond premade. There is no world in which this makes any sense.

Player performance are too unpredictable in normals because of how little people try.