Everytime I play Vi in TB

Vicarious117··1 votes·904 views

So I'm not good with Vi, I'm used to playing champs with more "lateral" movement ya know, less just bullrushing into a fight unless I'm playing a super tank with AoE, so I occasionally try to play her in some team builders to practice, cause I need it.

But EVERY SINGLE TIME I try to do so I get matched with a bunch of unranked or bronze teammates (maybe the odd silver or gold) and my enemy team is almost guaranteed to be platinum or higher with their one low ranked buddy. Normally this isn't too bad cause I can carry hard enough on my mains where I play with friends of mine at such ranks, but when I'm on a champ I'm not good with it gets tough.

Then ofc for some reason high ranking people in TB just don't seem to know how to relax and have fun, they're constantly diving my unranked teammates who have already lost lane cause they don't understand cs'ing and they always have so many wards throughout my jungle that if I don't have a sweeper and keep buying pinks they'll constantly know where I am. I get you want to win, but freakin relax for a bit, it's a team builder, winning isn't everything, but even your opponents would like to PLAY the freakin game...

So plz Riot, would you for the love of god fix w/e it is in TB that constantly pairs me against opponents who outrank the living sh*t out of the teammates you give me. I'm only gold, so I don't get how being paired this way is even possible.

P.S. "Teh slat iz reel!" "Y so saltee!?" "U MAD!" etc etc etc, yeah I know what most of you are going to respond with, I've posted enough on the LoL forums to get the gist of what kind of people lurk here hiding behind their computer screens. But you're lying to yourself if you think you've never been annoyed by having severally outranked teammates given to you, or you've never been so unlucky, lucky you.

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Epilogue of Life2 votes

How about riot show us the MMR system, so we can be assured that there IS a working MMR system at all?

Vicarious1171 votes

That would be nice, but I doubt they will because I also doubt there is one :/

Epilogue of Life1 votes

Lol judging from the fact that I'm a silver four who consistantly get matched with plats, I'd agree with you...

Oliver The Fiend1 votes

What is TB?

Vicarious1171 votes

Team Builder

ofart1 votes

Tuberculosis

KillerPenguins1 votes

There aren't enough people playing teambuilder to fix the matchmaking for it. Just play normal blind pick and be a toxic auto-locker, there's not much alternative if you'd like to practice a specific champion at your actual level of play. My suggestion for learning a new champ is to play a few custom or bot games first to get the mechanics down, then pick them when their role is available in normals.

Vicarious1171 votes

Playing customs literally does nothing for me. Last time I did that to learn a champ was Volibear back when I was first starting, wasn't even lvl 30 yet, and I was 30/0/0 in like 10 mins.... I can't really learn anything when just hitting all the buttons gets me unbelievably fed lol

Even in normals it's an issue though, not to the same extent, most likely for the reason you pointed out, but it is still pretty bad. Just played a blind pick match with a couple friends actually, 2 of us gold the other plat, and we got paired with another plat and an unranked friend of his. The enemy team had one plat, a silver, 2 unranked, and a freakin lvl 20.... this made the win stupidly easy, I had to tell my friends in bot lane to give the lvl 20 playing support a break in fact! So the opposite of my OP, but it's still a problem and completely unbalanced, the lvl 20 was also queued with the the 2 other unranked players, so it's not even like he was queued with the other plat, they just randomly stuck 2 unranked players with their lvl 20 friend against a team of all mid-tier ranked players, it makes no sense and it's not even fun for us cause it's so easy!

It's not so much an issue of not enough people in TB but more so the matchmaking is awful on a consistent basis on all normal game types.

Leaf of the lake1 votes

Just keep playing games with her. Eventually the matchmaking adjustment will go away and you can play at your regular MMR. My first game with ziggs in TB was atrocious. I got super fed while the entire rest of my team is dropping like flies. Turns out it was mostly bronze and unranked against golds. The enemy team's rank wasn't too unusual for me. What I don't understand is how I was getting bronze teammates when the matchmaking adjustment is supposed to make my first few games with a champ easier.

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