Teambuilder Matchmaking (This is not the first, or second, or third time)

Lao Fu the Tiger·Nov 15, 2014·5 votes·1,265 views

I have a legitimate question regarding teambuilder matchmaking, and why exactly things like THIS happen. This is the third game in a row where we've had a completely one-sided match-made game, and I'm not sure why it happens. Typically I assume this is due to pre-made lobbies, but really?

Can we at LEAST match make premade lobbies UP to the upper-level players' level? I'm kinda tired of queueing with Diamond and vastly superior players in Teambuilder, and would appreciate some better balance..

Honestly, this would be great experience for people who want to queue with higher elo players and therefore play against other high elo players (which I enjoy doing). However, matchmaking it DOWN to the Silver player's level doesn't help anybody much except give the high elo player a first win of the day.

7 Comments

EndlessSorcererNov 15, 20144 votes

Yeah, teambuilder matchmaking can be kinda weird. I'm unranked and it keeps matching me with and against platinums, diamonds, and even the occasional master player. This even happens when I'm playing a champion for the first time, so it's a bit of a steep learning curve.

I don't mind it too much as it's good experience, I tend to hold my own (or at least not feed), and I can get some good advice from experienced players or learn better laning mechanics. Still kinda weird though.

I think the main issue is that high-ranked players probably play ranked more than normals, so their MMR in both queues differ greatly.

Lao Fu the TigerNov 16, 20141 votes

Yes, but this is still problematic. Their ranked games probably SHOULD factor somewhat into their normal MMR as well. As somebody else aptly put, if you shove a diamond player into bronze ARAM, he's probably going to do okay. Likewise here, we're not even changing maps or gamemodes!

A Slime AppearsNov 15, 20141 votes

So many of these threads. Makes me never want to try team builder ~~___~~

JobyrNov 15, 20141 votes

Something something different queue means different ELO something or rather something something. Last thing I think they said on this topic, which was when TeamBuilder was first released, is that there are basically no higher ranked players playing the mode...and there is already like next to none of those anyway compared to how many lower ELO players are using the mode. This means that they can't be matched with people their skill level, because there are no other people their level queueing for it. Something something we should use solo queue ranking to determine other queues' ELO or something something.

CampheneNov 15, 20141 votes

There isn't a good reason. Whoever decided to make different MMR's for different game modes is dumb and doesn't realize you're not gonna play like Helen Keller in ARAM's if you're diamond in soloqueue.

Keep being vocal about it though. Maybe one day they'll change it.

VertaniumNov 16, 20141 votes

Ive been on both sides of this. Usually having higher than gold vs all silvers comes from a 5 man team with these exact situations. I am unraked, a majority of my friends are silver, sometimes we play with a plat player. When we do that, usually, the entire enemy team is silver, because, the AVERAGE mmr is even.