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What's up with this matchmaking?

Biabri·12/21/2016, 10:12:32 PM·2 votes·528 views

So, since the new season, I've found myself put with even worse teammates than I normally have to deal with. Don't start with the 'there's no such thing as elo hell' crap. You play premades or you've managed to luck out of it by playing for years. Not going to rant about this but I can't 5v1 every single game, and I'm losing to will to even play anymore now since every one of these 5v1 games end up lasting for up to, or sometimes over, an hour. TBH LoL has always been pretty sketchy with the matchmaking, I'd be perfectly fine with being matched up against high skill players if it meant I didn't have to put up with some of the scrubs that end up in my games. Sadly, I can't even do that, since for every win I get through blood sweat and tears, I lose 5 more to poor teammates.

I'm honestly not sure if this is a personal problem or if everyone is facing it because of the new season coming through. I DID "leave" a bunch of games due to a broken graphics card, so my elo may have taken a dump due to that, since according to literally all of my friends, they've gotten off to a flying start!

I swear, if one person says anything about looking at my own performance, I will shank their shit. I can't 3v1 every single fight, which is what my allies insist on. I also can't babysit them all at once, especially not as a support, which is my preferred role. (I do other roles, but I love support.) I just don't feel like I'll be able to really 'play' LoL until I grind to a higher elo.

Is this why people buy accounts?

Anyway, leave your thoughts below, do you feel the same, do you think I'm chatting crap, got any tips for me?

Soraka

1 Comments

Rossonious12/21/2016, 10:43:48 PM3 votes

I was bored and checked your games. Looks like you got beatup by some mismatches and singled out by the better players on the enemy team as a beatdown target. Not that your teammates picked much better but if you can, avoid nasus into ryze and nidalee into zed. And its not just you and your lane opponent. Its your whole team counterpicking themselves. Shit like that.

I've learned the hard way over a gazillion games that even if you're a little bit better than everyone else if you aren't a LOT better you're going to get beatup in those kinds of matchups. I still do it myself almost literally everyday but I'm a weird masochist who likes to play tons of champs just for the fun of it.

Though it looks like maybe you got screwed by "matchmaker" it seems more like you got screwed by some shitty shitty team comps. You can't control other people's choices but if you've got a bigger champ pool that can bail some of those shitbag comps you were on that'd be the way to go. Stop playing flex que and start playing more solo que, you're getting stuck on groups that look like they're just fucking around (still trying to win, not feeding, but fucking around regardless). Which is probably what me and my friends would be doing on flex que to be honest.