ARAM Matchmaking?

Stompburger·11/21/2017, 4:54:47 AM·1 votes·2,631 views

I just played an ARAM game, and the matchmaking seemed way off.

Their Team: Plat V Diamond V Gold II Diamond V Plat II

Our Team: Unranked (me, probably Silver or low Gold) Silver V Silver V Gold III Plat V

Also, two of the opposing players were Riot employees (Assuming you can't put Riot in your name otherwise): Riot Mantikles and Riot lilBcat. Maybe they can say what was going on? Was I the 5th man in a 4-man premade vs another 4-man?

I know it's just ARAM, but the game (obviously) was extremely one-sided and not very fun. Anyone else run into this on ARAM?

3 Comments

BigBellBrute11/21/2017, 6:04:30 AM2 votes

Part of it is Aram MMR is different from ranked. The other part is later in the evenings, and other off peak times, Aram match making can get rather dicey and you'll see some outliers fitted onto teams.

Infernape11/21/2017, 4:55:52 AM1 votes

ARAM MMR =/= ranked MMR. Because MMR doesn't carry over between different queues, it means there can be imbalances. Bronzes can potentially be queued up with and against challengers.

Jabbic11/21/2017, 5:44:59 AM1 votes

I am seeing that constantly in ARAM games. I have not seem an evenly balanced ARAM game since the preseason started. It seems like RIOT reset the ARAM MMR or something, cus it seems like everyone is just getting matched together regardless of their skill.