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Can someone explain how team balance works out on ARAM?

Mister Punches·10/22/2016, 6:51:29 AM·1 votes·699 views

Just out of curiosity. I'm talking about ranked balance and if it plays a factor in matchups. I'm curious about this because my last ARAM match had me placed with a team that's all low bronze (IV and V) and an unranked, while the enemy team had a plat, a gold, a high silver, an unranked, and a low bronze.

I'm curious about this because I noticed two things ingame that kind of gave away who I was going against as well as who I was placed with:

1: The enemy team worked beautifully when it came to teamfights, and I mean great synergy. I checked it out and it was the three higher ranked players on the enemy team who were doing extremely well. I was pretty jealous that they could easily kill my 4 teammates while I was getting ready to spawn.

2: My teammates easily spent a good portion of the game arguing with each other, ignoring pings, and generally having a toxic attitude that was a common occurrence from when I was in low Bronze this season. I noticed that they were all scattered and aiming for different people rather than actually aiming for the weakest, or even one person overall.

Does the current rank ingame influence who gets placed with what, even in normal gametypes?

4 Comments

aspects110/22/2016, 6:58:59 AM2 votes

you have a completely different aram mmr. you could be b2 in ranked/norms on summs rift, but might be really good at aram and have a plat level aram mmr.

SoundwaveCanada10/22/2016, 7:01:40 AM1 votes

It's complicated really, but I feel I can describe it though because I have about 1500 wins over the next highest player in the aram world. Here it goes... "all random".

Silmaril10/22/2016, 7:15:23 AM1 votes

ARAM, just like any other game-mode, has its own matchmaking rating that's separate from any other queue, so it's not effected by their official rank in any way.

Because of that, the way non-ranked matchmaking works (as near as I can tell, matchmaking for normal game modes tends to draw from a wider MMR to limit queue times, so you generally see a wider range of team-mate ranks) and its nature as a for-fun alternate map that most players play sparingly, the rank distribution on the map is pretty much going to be all over the place. Sometimes you get the short end of the stick and get the bad players on your team, sometimes you get a Challenger and two diamonds on your team, while the other team is all bronze-silver. It's kind of sucky sometimes, but it's ok because everybody is on random champions anyways.