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Add "NUMBER OF GAMES PLAYED" as a criteria for Normal matchmaking queue.

bbQ s··3 votes·811 views

I'm a new player, i've been playing for 3 weeks, i reached lv 30 a couple days ago, so i don't have enough champions for ranked queue so right now i'm playing normals to gain IP for runes and champions. I have to say that i'm EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED by the matchmaking system, it's just a horrible, lazy designed system.

First of all, the fact that MMR is based solely on WINRATE means that you can get carried to a HIGHER MMR than what you currently deserve. I've learned to accept that, but the thing i CAN'T ACCEPT, is that i'm matched against players with EXTREMELY more experience than me. Seriously, every game i'm the only noob with 60 wins, matched with and against players with 1k 2k wins. I'm tired of getting STOMPED ALMOST EVERY SINGLE GAME, but sometimes win because of my teammates.

Seriously riot, add number of games as a criteria for normal games, this is really detrimental to my experience as it makes me want to quit the game.

DOTA 2 MATCHMAKING HAS THIS! IT'S TIME TO LEARN SOMETHING FROM VALVE?

"The discrepancy between experience (measured by the number of games played) between the least experienced player and the most experienced player is minimized."

9 Comments

Eedat2 votes

Wouldnt work. All that would do is guarentee everyone's smurfs got matched vs new player and other smurfs. Considering the vast majority of new accounts made are smurfs or people who got banned, nothing would change

bbQ s1 votes

What to do then? Every game i'm matched with players 10x times better than me.. My suggestion isn't to match me ONLY with low number of games players, but to minimize the discrepancy. Smurfs should have higher MMR than me so i wouldn't play with them more than i do right now.

Seriously, look at my last game:

My team:

Ahri(me): 70 games won Ashe: 753 Azir: 626 Riven: 1423 Blitzcrank: 471

Enemy team:

Shaco: 568 Ezreal: 1491 Nasus: 466 Zed: 2058 Taric: 580

Do you think it could be worse than this? I mean, if it works for Dota 2 it should work for league too right?

Also i don't understand why my MMR is so inflated, i have 1400~ MMR sometimes i reach 1500~ according to quickfind.kassad.in, but when i played with my bronze 1 friend (which is better than me) we had 1350~ MMR. The system is flawed for the simple fact that it thinks i'm a silver-gold level player, when i'm not. I suck at this game. Another guess i have is that the system might wrongfully think that i'm a smurf account so it puts me vs good players.. I don't really know..

Eedat1 votes

It doesnt work for DotA. New players getting matched with and against smurfs is just as common

bbQ s1 votes

I understand that, but at least they don't get matched vs people that are CONFIRMED to have played 2k games more than you.

Rockman1 votes

it actually does btw. This was a way old change.

bbQ s1 votes

How? I have 70 wins and i'm always matched with people with 300-2500 wins... I don't think it does it... I think i've read on the official wiki that the matchmaking works exclusively off the MMR. No other parameters such as games played are used.

Silly Neeko1 votes

Well, first off, what did you choose for your experience?

Also, you are thinking about this the entirely wrong way. You have 70 games. Those older players (like myself, and I have between 1600-1700 wins) often are willing to give advice. Between builds, which champs you might find easier to learn with in a certain role, how to play them, tips about things you can do with them, etc. Its fine if you want to learn on your own, but sometimes there are things that you can learn from seeing how an older player plays that champion. A good example would be..... did you know Thresh can Flay a Leona mid dash with her Zenith Blade? Did you know that Ezreal and Tristana have a .5-1 second delay between when they jump/arcane shift and when they cast it..... so if you are hit by a Blitzcrank pull or something, you still hop/arcane shift to where you were trying for?

You are at a point in the game where you should view playing with the higher ups as a major learning experience. I never pay attention to MMR because it can fluxuate for various reasons. Playing with people only around your experience level will be nice and all, but Ranked is where you will be placed and judged by forces that troll everyone. Ranked does not not discriminate by peoples experience, it is pretty much just from a persons rank. If you are in Silver you will likely be matched with Silvers...... and Silver is the average player. When your a fresh 30, expect to be playing against silvers. Do normals and start working your skills up, best advice is do not ranked right away. Honestly i didnt actually get somewhere where i was considered "good" until 700 wins. The more you try to learn instead of get upset, the faster you will get to a place where youll consider yourself good.

Last bit of advice....... DO. NOT. RAGE. You will lose more and stress yourself out more and you will end up not enjoying the game. Keep calm amd carry on. If you understand this, you will get better in no time at all.

bbQ s1 votes

Thank you for your reply. I understand that playing against better players will improve my skill, but getting stomped won't. I'm treating this as a serious issue because i don't see any other player like me with 60-70 wins. Ever. Always in my games people have 500+ games played and i feel like i'm not supposed to play with them.

I never get upset in game, if i do it's because of the matchmaking system, but i will never go off on the players. I'd like to play ranked but i have only 6 champions right now.. 10 to go..

Silly Neeko1 votes

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Thank you for your reply. I understand that playing against better players will improve my skill, but getting stomped won't. I'm treating this as a serious issue because i don't see any other player like me with 60-70 wins. Ever. Always in my games people have 500+ games played and i feel like i'm not supposed to play with them.

I never get upset in game, if i do it's because of the matchmaking system, but i will never go off on the players. I'd like to play ranked but i have only 6 champions right now.. 10 to go..

I do understand your problems, it sucks, but it happens quite often. Ive gotten the chance to see many new players grow. Played with and helped them learn.... and they helped me learn too xD dont worry, you will get better no problems. Then you will start to beat the pants off of us "experienced" players lol.

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