Matchmaking in NON-ranked teambuilder is a ticket to toxicity

cStryker·12/23/2015, 3:26:24 PM·1 votes·467 views

Ok after returning to the rift for some casual games I made a certain observation that really is fuked up and unbearable for the enjoyment of this game Riot has removed the "unskilled player" report couple of weeks ago (maybe months don't quote me on that) but opposite to all the other report categories (bad baby boo boo, Oh no he said fu** ban his a**) this actually made some sense, the only category that really had some meaning was removed...

It's an elemental issue, with RIOT focusing on penalties and banning players instead of getting to the root of the problem -> a matchmaking that sucks all the enjoyment out of a game and can only lead to frustration (and we all know this is a path to the dark side ;)) On all the games where I was really pissed and had 0 fun I noticed that at least 2-3 teammates are in the ~10 games won category.... does some1 honestly excpect that a player with a solid 500 games won xp to enjoy a game with complete newbs? It is not meant in a bad way, we all started sometime and I know that games won is not THE ONE indicator of player skill, BUT IT IS ATLEAST A MEANINGFUL START

a player that has played this game for over a year will react more meaningful to situations on the map and esp. won't feak out as soon as there is some engagement and run away... I think the pool of players should be large enough to at least take game won into consideration, there will be skill differences sure, but from a game flow I bet that it will be a complete different category than just getting completely wrecked by experienced players! It doesn't matter how skilled players are individually BUT there is an undenieable fact that simply playing the game gets you forward skillwise

example from my last game(games won in teambuilder only!): me support- 310 games won (remember tb only) adc- 18 top- 248 mid- 5 jungle- 4

lets look at opponents team: top- 700!! adc- 528! supp-62 mid- 123 jungle- 166

This is the standard impression of the games won difference in all the games I had where I had 0 fun and got completely wrecked, sometimes the mates aren't even lvl 30.... I know there are smurf accounts and stuff like that, but I would accept this as an exception to the rule... you can't solve it all!

I will use the holidays to get some solid data out of my observations by using the API to get some statistics, not sure if I can get all the info but I will def. try...

5 Comments

Alakalzam12/23/2015, 4:10:03 PM1 votes

The unskilled player reporting feature was a troll by Riot. The reports went into the void, though I suppose they were cathartic for the players who used it.

barbarianskull12/23/2015, 5:18:03 PM1 votes

I'm a silver and I have been matched with a plat player

cStryker12/23/2015, 6:27:37 PM1 votes

and the next game haha this is really hilarious, -> : 15, 21, 39, 268 games won (me: 310) the other team had: 651, 517, 483, 93, 80 why do I have to play with ~10 games won dudes? this is completely broken I will really take the time to put this into a statistic via REST API to prove this with hard facts... I bet the outcome wil be, that most games lost will be this constellation... same with ARAM, it's either steamroll or get steamrolled, maybe 5-10% of games are balanced and fun, the rest is completely one sided in either direction