Matchmaking adjustment in Team Builder needs to be toned down.

TotalJerk··4 votes·742 views

For those of you that don't know, Team builder has a feature called "Matchmaking adjustment". The way it works is that if you're trying a champion or role that you have few Team builder games on, it considers your MMR lower. Great idea in theory, in practice it completely fucks the matchmaking.

Typically when I play a champion that I've gotten over this hump with, I get matched with players ranging from high Bronze to mid gold.When I play a champion with no Team builder games? Literally all Bronze V, with the occasional IV.

It cannot be overstated how fucking terrible these people are, they are easily worse than people I dealt with pre-30. I know I'm not a particularly great player, my CS is mediocre, I tend to lock up mentally, I'm often too cautious to press advantages and take chances. I tilt hard when better players mock me. But these people can barely comprehend the bare fucking basics of how this game works. It completely sucks the fun out of trying new champions to the point where I'd rather just repeatedly spam my mains every game instead of trying anything new.

This cuts both ways, as well. Often times I get players on my level that have no business ever being matched that low. These are typically people who might have had 10+ games with the champ in blind and read countless guides and builds before picking the champ up, but Team Builder doesn't care about any of that shit, it just figures that Mr. Plat should be thrown into games with silvers because he's only played 4 games of Annie mid in Team Builder

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searchman151 votes

Holy shit, yes. I hadn't played ahri in a long time, apperently long enough to never have played her in team builder, and when I did I was disgusted. I sucked ass in laning phase, missed like 80% of cs at 5 minutes, looked at cs numbers in tab. Literally was only 5 behind the average. What was even worse, is that I was against a katarina in lane who obviously wasn't new to the champion, and obviously shit on these bad players and became impossible to deal with.

Ipols1 votes

Last time it was the opposite for me, I was with 4 friends and said: guys I feel like playng shaco, but I'll go top so try to carry me. I almost never play shaco and It was an out of meta position, so the matchmaking adjustment kicked in.

I was paired with a diamond Irelia (I'm used to fight vs low plat/high silver)

Bijorn1 votes

Wait, really? This is almost the exact opposite of what I'v been getting. FIrst time playing a certain champ and I got thrown against a gold2. True, not great but I am completely unranked so...what?

Or played Supp Brand one game for the first time, and was up against another gold supp. 3 of us were unranked while they were all gold with a diamond jungle main (I guess the MMR's were "equal" between junglers but my jungler was gold so idk). Teambuilder is great but the matchmaking is fucking garbage.

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