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Riot fix your fucking matchmaking

Swarovsko··41 votes·5,909 views

Seriously why the fuck are plats in my games? How am I supposed to enjoy the game when my mid lane and top lane are getting stomped by smurfs and my jungler was like bronze 3 last season? It's like I am forced to lose, that's not fun and especially fair at all. When you play a game you usually do that because you want to have fun, you just want to be happy, not stressed. League of Legends right now is just tilting its players with auto-fill, bot lane orgy at 10:00 min, shitty matchmaking and other things. League of Legends as a game is disappointing, and I'm sorry to say that. You have lots of talented, innovative, creative, intelligent and original people working for you and you fail at giving us FAIR matchups? You should be ashamed of that. Also, why is this community full of crybabies who are costantly flaming and blaming each others instead of playing? I had a game where my adc rage quitted and then started inting because our jungler accidentally stole his red, and I had worse experiences.

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Supreme Senpai6911 votes

Just want to leave here. That after examining my losses and victories. After winning two or more games in a row, I would receive an ally team with substantially less MMR than not only the enemy team, but also my last game's team. Yet the enemy team's MMR will increase for a total difference of 600+. I'll even admit the games that I've won aren't always because of my skill. In fact, very few are. The stompy games where I've gone like 6/0/13 my team's MMR is just so much higher than the enemy team's. Not only this season but last season too.

I've stopped playing after realizing this. I want to play more, it's a fun game and I enjoy it, I just have no motivation to. Games aren't decided by anything. You have little control over anything. It's all RNG; did the enemy get a bad team? Did you get a bad team? I don't understand why there's such an MMR disparity. It was one thing when I found out Riot gives you shitty teams after winning to try to curb you to a 50% win rate. It was frustrating but knowing my victories were because my teams MMR was just too much higher than the enemy is like... what's the point of playing?

Swarovsko6 votes

That's really unfair. Why is my top laner laning vs someone who goes 20/5/10 every game? I'm not even joking http://imgur.com/UuI6wlV That's really frustrating when you're bot lane, managed to give kills to your adc, winning almost every trade and then you lose the game anyway because mid and top are playing vs better players, what's the fucking point?

Blanchimont4 votes

Game three of my placements in Flex Queue put me in a team of level 30s against a team of high plats. I have no idea how matchmaking works anymore.

No flash no life4 votes

I agree that there's plenty of room of improvement regarding matchmaking system. Years ago when I've first started, my entire team was lvl 11~15 range, yet for some reason our opponents were consisted of a gold and a plat, legit lvl 30 accounts, not smurf. It's since been a wonder to me how that's tolerable, and perhaps over the course of years that doesn't happen anymore, but I do feel like matchmaking is still far from acceptable.

There isn't much they can do regarding player behavior though. Sure, they can change the nature of the game to encourage positive attitudes, they can change the rules to discourage ill manners, but by the end of the day it's still up to the players to behave themselves, and riot can only do so much as a helping hand.

Strictly speaking, though, it is not their responsibility nor duty to deal with this issue. We're expected to behave, and we've agreed to do that before we started playing, so this issue shouldn't happen at all and, even if it does, should be minimal. Unfortunately the reality proves otherwise, and this demonstrates the kind of player base we're dealing with.

yeulx3 votes

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Swarovsko12 votes

Crying =/= telling what's wrong with the game in vent mode.

Troll for Trump7 votes

"I disagree with what you're saying, you must be whining/crying"

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TheOnlyJoe1 votes

What are you trying to achieve again? Seems you're just the kind of person that likes to shit talk and provide nothing relevant to the conversation

idontgiveabother3 votes

They also need to fix the problem with afks. In the past few days I have had afks in my promos and the last game I played a guy decided to afk at the very end of the game. We all geared up to fight for the last stand (no one realized our adc walked back to spawn right before it) and funny thing is if our adc was there, we easily would have won that fight. Then I got demoted :D The game is fun, but not. If the loss didnt count, oh well kind of sucks but at least I wouldn't have gotten demoted for an afk which "I CAN NOT CONTROL* Not I can it's I can not Big difference but im still getting punished for it either way.

MFTORANK13 votes

Right now i'm in high silver and was gold last season, I see nothing but gold and plat borders, people have not made it yet to their last season rank wich is the reason why the matchmaking is so stupid, I made it all the way up to gold 2 last season got 7/3 in placements and got placed in bronze 4 .

No need to tell you how easy it was for me but how frustrating it must have been for everyone I faced, matchmaking is so weird at the moment at my elo because you have gold, plat silver and bronze 1 players in the same game it doesn't make any sense.

BrezeI2 votes

I 100% agree with you, I actually stopped playing this game because of how unfair the matchmaking can be

Blåbæret2 votes

I get plats every single game. Even when queueing solo normals I'm getting plats on my team. I'm silver 3.

MXXXXXL2 votes

I occasionally get higher MMR in normal games and end up facing golds and plats, usually when on a win streak, it really sucks.

I've always not liked playing ranked, even though earning your spot way higher on the ladder sounds nice, it now really shows what it'd really be like, players in claiming to be in ELO hell need to have this experience this one day.

Covert Ops Gnar2 votes

Why do I have Silver 4's on my team in my Diamond/Plat games?

Plus0NE2 votes

Man Im just silver 4 and I got matched against a diamond 4 in ranked, knowing that my mmr is of silver 3

teegorom2 votes

Obviously not that talented when they haven't fixed a core part of their game.

Kaygha2 votes

I've noticed some pretty awful matchmaking recently. All my games over the past 3 weeks or so have been 2 or 3 victories, and then the next 2 or 3 games I get put with really bad players - resulting in 2 or 3 losses. This happens consistently, where after a small win streak my opposition will improve but my team mates seem to be significantly worse. I am not at all happy with this matchmaking system at the moment, it feels like it's trying to curb my win rate. I am happy to be put up against better opponents each game, but I am not happy being put with worse players when I am on a winning streak. Please Riot, sort this out because it's really taking the fun out of the game.

2Charmnot2Charm1 votes

I just checked your last 11 games and the only plat player i saw was in this normal game http://puu.sh/tfNkj/b199cfd19c.jpg

Everyone else i saw was 98% silver with the other 2% gold 5 or bronze.

Normals mmr is different than rank mmr so you could be playing with diamonds if your normals mmr was that high or if that diamond player mmr was that trash.

If you see any plat boarders in silver elo still then they were boosted simple as that.

Swarovsko3 votes

You can't just watch their current elo, you could say Ryze from one of my games is actually silver, then how do you explain this? http://imgur.com/UuI6wlV He's obviously not an actual silver player since he manages in lots of games to get fed, win lane and carry. What I'm trying to say is I should play with people who are not better/worse than me, because it feels unfair.

Inori x Shu2 votes

Lol i have been in plat twice on this account and my smurf made it to plat promos last season but i lost them and i didnt try again. And i another smurf mid gold. I am stuck in silver 1 right now failed gold promos 3 times. I have worked my ass off to get my ranks. This game is so unbalnced atm its not even funny along with the terrible matchmaking. My last attempt at gold i was 2-2 literally was carrying on thresh my adc was jinx 11/5/16( dont remember assist and the twitch we stompwd was 1/7 just fken like destroyed my team one fight and it was over. There is no reason a 1/7 twitch should be doing that especially when its not even late game. So many bruisers are so strong now and most of the games are over by 10 minutes or are so skewed in someones favor that unless they do some stupid throw which is hard atm then you have lost and there is no coming back.

ElfOfTheDesert1 votes

why is this community full of crybabies

Says the one that started a thread crying for Riot to "fix their matchmakin" lolol

Swarovsko5 votes

"started a thread crying" not even close. What's wrong with telling Riot to fix their matchmaking? Ranked feels unfair, and apparently not just to me. Our current matchmaking is making players tilt and Riot needs to fix it, that's something many people have said and Riot just keeps ignoring it. Noone is crying, I'm just tired of Riot doing nothing to solve this situation.

ElfOfTheDesert1 votes

Delusional EUW players. Keep on crying for them to fix something that needs no fixing.

CriMehARiven2 votes

What do you mean "Delusional EUW players" this is an issue happening in EUNE as well and I hate it, this really needs fixing and getting high plat/low diamond enemies while getting low gold/high silver allies when im lvl 25 on EUNE is not ok!

ElfOfTheDesert1 votes

There's nothing to fix, keep being delusional EUW players. Especially in a 6 month old thread LOL.

Truli911 votes

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Delusional EUW players. Keep on crying for them to fix something that needs no fixing.

Dude shut up. Everybody complains about the matchmaking. its unfair to be matched against players with 2-3 tiers higher than you. cant you understand that?

phil7011 votes

Statistically, if this is a repeated issue and not just one game (which I doubt), you will get better players on your team the same amount of time. And yes, this is a bitching thread.

BrezeI1 votes

That's still not fair, we don't want better or worse enemies or teammates... pls read next time

Swarovsko3 votes

"Bitching thread" what the fuck just stop already. This is a REAL issue, I'm not just inventing things because I have nothing to do but trashtalk Riot Games (I even told them they are talented ecc...).

MrBlameyy1 votes

To be honest im having the exact same problem but with people who constently feed i was silver 3 going to silver 2 out of nowhere i started to match up with people who constently feed or just out of my skill level... if you see certain games on OP.gg that i have alot of deaths i only got those deaths from people who constently feed and screws up where i am if you said im trolling i can clear up anything

ppAIN371 votes

Just fix this matchmaking shit please...the game is fun if it's a fair one... !

Hamsterchoblue1 votes

i have this problem too.I was in one Ranked game and i was playing talon mid i was 3/1/1 and we had top lane aatrox that was inter he was vs darius and he got stopmed 10th min and he was 1/3 with 40farm and when i told him to play safe he just run into my lane and started getting my farm and then he told me he was first time aatrox.Then i asked him why the fuck. you play with aatrox for first time in ranked.Then he told me and?.After that i was very pissed off then i told him he was ruining the game because we were like 4vs6 and told he to leave so we could have any chance of winning ow and btw bronze janna jungle in our team.And the darius was smurf so we ended loseing the game i dropped down to silver.Why the heck always my team are bronze-silver and the enemies are gold-diamond and reavers my team are good and the enemies bad.Ow yes its because of the bad matchmaking.[sg-shisa]

thelastsabre1 votes

same shit im unranked i just started i get matched up with gold and plats and im just unranked like wtf i hv no chance only happens in euw i quit league in 3 days if this doesnt get fixed cuz losing and bad kda is nit fun its stressing

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