Matchmaking sucks and here is an example of why

redLizardrock·9/8/2019, 8:32:59 AM·15 votes·9,526 views

Okay look at my last match. Riot... How the fuck is it fair that we are up against a gold udyr while everyone on the team is not even level 30. What the fuck? Your match making is fucking garbage

EDIT : The match where my whole team we are under level 30 but we are facing a gold udyr. Garbage match making. https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/3144950001/2094934204296096?tab=overview

14 Comments

Darkdemon6539/8/2019, 12:11:24 PM6 votes

It was a premade. That Udyr regularly queues with all four of his teammates.

Also, ranked and normal have separate MMRs.

mack91129/8/2019, 11:40:21 AM2 votes

It was a pantheon but matchmaking isn’t really a thing with normals.

That person was probably premade

Ms Cougar9/8/2019, 2:56:12 PM1 votes

This usually happens when one of your sub lvl 30s has been registered as a smurf. I've made extra accounts to play with new friends, those games sometimes had us facing silver/gold ranked players in norms, as the smurf detection had obviously picked me up, happens very regularly when people level up new accounts.

floo9/8/2019, 8:28:20 PM1 votes

You were playing against a 5 man lobby. That gold Udyr was playing with 4 other people under the level of 30, likely a group of friends just playing together. Yea that's unlucky for your team to play against him, but as long as it wasn't a single person queuing, you can't force him out of there just for the level range. Also normals are the place for people to play with their friends regardless of rank differences, because there is not really anything competitive behind it.