Anyone else feel like matchmaking is complete sh*t and unbalanced at the moment?

xX530CaliXx·12/27/2016, 12:02:20 PM·3 votes·947 views

Lately it seems I'm getting games that are completely unbalanced. I'm getting put into games with players I know for a fact aren't pre-30 accounts. I'm also getting paired against a bunch of smurfs. I know I'm bad but I've played enough LoL to know when a player isn't new. If a player is smurfing, can't riot take in their match history and maybe not pair them with a bunch of players that also have a really high win rate? It's not just me or one other person on my team doing bad, it's the whole team getting completely sh*t on by the other team. Why is so hard for riot to make balanced games? Anyone else experiencing this right now? I never remember it being this bad.

4 Comments

Very Hard Engage12/27/2016, 12:06:21 PM1 votes

recently games have been super one sided for me, im talking rolled and feeding. (not my lane)

i think its just because of winter break and more kids being on in general. you gotta change what time you play. (when they cant)

Deep Terror Nami12/27/2016, 12:07:33 PM1 votes

Everybody looking for something other than themselves to blame for a loss always has and always will point at matchmaking regardless of the circumstances.

If a player is smurfing

Placing leveling smurfs together is actually already a thing. I don't know how good it is, but there's only so long matchmaking will look before it starts widening its search and putting less equally matched players together; most players are already level 30, so low level queue times are either fast or inaccurate (they are fast).

The primary goal is to level up, not have equal matches, so just learn what you can from the experienced players in your games and focus on getting that XP. Once you are level 30 and have decent Normals MMR the matches will be better, and once you get into Ranked it'll be significantly more accurate than that.

BananaJannana12/27/2016, 12:18:38 PM1 votes

You're still Level 21, its like a Wildcard down there because the vast majority of players are level 30. The levels really don't matter at that point. I can't see the difference between a Level 10 and Level 20 player. Things should only start making sense once you reach 30 and start playing ranked.

xX530CaliXx1/5/2017, 6:42:04 AM1 votes

So here I am again. I'm level 25 and I just played a game against 4 gold players and a diamond (according to LOLNExus). The only person on our team who was ranked was Hecarim. How the F#CK does riot except any new person to make it through leveling up when they get put in a completely sh#t game like this? Riot! Pls FFS! HOw the flying f#ck are you this gargbage at making balanced games? In what universe would it make sense to put pre lvl 30 players against players that are gold or higher?