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Does the matchmaking system try to keep you at 50% W/L by giving you weak teammates after a streak?

IH8U2D34TH·10/25/2018, 1:31:40 PM·2 votes·1,337 views

It seems like whenever I get on a long run of 5+ wins (had a 10 game win streak recently on another acct) I start getting awful teammates who are completely outclassed in their lanes. I'm a support main, and let me just say there isn't a DAMN THING I can do to stop an 8 kill mid laner at 10 minutes. Especially someone like zed, or Lb who are super slippery and can now blow up myself or the ADC (or both of us) in one combo, under our turret, then poof they are gone. Then guess what, the mid laner and his jungle duo lover, who is also 0/6 keeps voting 'no', holding me hostage in a lost game. Guess who fed people love crapping on, supports (even the "tank" supports, don't get enough gold early to become an actual tank). It also doesn't help that there are 50 champs that can murder me if I get close enough to the bush they are hiding in to place my ward.

It seems like my team is being setup like I'm supposed to carry trash from the support role, that isn't how it works.

19 Comments

Bademeister10/25/2018, 2:07:10 PM2 votes

Yes. But wait half a day, and you will have about 10 Riot fanboys running around trying to convince you the system works perfectly, although they have no idea what actually happens.

They of course don't "actively" try to make you lose... but they make the "super secret hidden value" so low after a win streak that you WILL get matched with a team that you have to carry all by yourself (as in: 5xGold on their team, vs. you and 4xBronze on your team - I obviously exaggerate, but not by much).

ChargeItDownMid10/25/2018, 3:24:06 PM2 votes

No, it can give you horrible teammates at any time. I get far more bad teammates after a loss than after a win. It seems like 50% of the people here complain about horrible teammates after winning a bunch and 50% of the people complain about horrible teammates after losing a bunch. I don't think there is a pattern as much as the meta is just prone to huge variability in play.

Although from a purely mathematical point of view, 50% of players win every game and 50% of players lose every game and matchmaking actively tries to match you with other players of your skill level so you can say that eventually, it puts everyone at 50%. I would say don't worry about the short run. You can see a ton of ridiculous streaks in the short run but everyone gets to where they belong eventually.

Kayle Shrine10/25/2018, 3:13:05 PM1 votes

Never join a queu after a dodge, cancel it every time.