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Ranked Matchmaking

BubblyRainbows·9/25/2017, 6:03:52 PM·2 votes·220 views

I am not a competitive person and don't generally care about ranked play. But today, on a whim, I decided to queue up for a ranked game. I assumed that as a bronze player, I would be matched with people of a similar skill level. Instead, me and another bronze were on a team with two silver players and a gold. Which I assume means similar ranks on the other team. Of course, this meant the other bronze player, being top lane, got dumpstered hard and flamed by the gold/silver players ALL GAME, I was barely useful at all either, going 0/6/5 in bot lane as support, and it was generally not a pleasant experience...

Was I wrong to assume that bronzies like me would be matched with other bronzes or MAYBE a single low silver? Or is this the norm? If I played ranked more often, would I just need to expect to regularly end up with/against players FAR higher in rank and just accept that those games are probably losses?

1 Comments

Yosuke Apperu10/2/2017, 12:10:45 AM1 votes

The truth is, bronze and silver aren't very different.. they're almost interchangeable at this point. The gold against bronze players however I feel is unfair, but at the same time queves may get exceedingly long if they do matching too specifically.

I know that this type of thing is very annoying to deal with, but statistically it happens to those opponents that you're facing as well(where they would be going against a gold as a gold, but then they have a bronze on their team that gets dumpstered by a gold, etc.) I tend to steer clear of ranked because video games to me are supposed to be a way of stress relief, but in ranked people treat the game as if it were life or death o.o.. that being said if you ever want to play a normal game or something and need someone to play with, I'd be down! ^^