Matchmaking in blind pick normals is kinda messed up

Fakerr··3 votes·835 views

I play league as a hobby and I love the game. But I'm someone who plays blind pick normals more than ranked. I've clocked in almost 6,000 normal blind pick games and only 60 or so ranked games (this season). I like the uncertainty of the matchups and the variety of team comps in blind picks.

But lately, I've been having some serious matchmaking issues. I get silver, low-gold teammates while the enemy team is full of plats and diamonds. Ok, I must admit, I'm only G4 this season, but that's cause I barely play ranked. I play mid/jg and I can hold my own against higher elo players. But, the same can't be same with the people I'm paired with. I'm not gonna flame on my silver/gold teammates. I can't expect them to be as good as plats and diamonds. It's not just about macro-play and game understanding, their mechanics are also not on par. When I check on lolnexus or op.gg and I see that my ADC or mid is silver and the enemy mid or adc is diamond 2, I just know it's gonna be hard.

But then, when I go on ranked and play ranekd games, I feel like the teams are so much more balanced. I feel like my ranked games are so much easier to win, cause the two teams have equal-skill leveled players. In normal games, sometimes I'll have 0/8/0 mid-laners pre-10 mins. But that's cause he's silver 4 and his lane opponent is a diamond 3 or sth. I won't blame him and I never say bad stuff to my them. But I feel like that shouldn't be happening in the first place. Maybe it's because I have a lot of games under my belt (again- 6,000) but I feel like matchmaking thinks I'm way better than I actually am.

4 Comments

Paitar2 votes

Riot needs to take ranked mmr into consideration in normals. The vast majority of normal games are horribly balanced, almost always a team stomps the other one and you can't try any new champions in normals because you will get destroied by higher ranked players. I'm Plat 5 and in my last 10-15 normal games i played with and against diamond and master players. Tried to play some new champs to get S for chest and i always got owned... not fun at all.

MMWWMWMWMMWWMWMM2 votes

one year later its still terrible, constantly getting a mix from bronze to diamond in my games, the bronze can barely orb walk while the high gold - diamond destroy them like its a bot game or something, I'm actually just done playing blind picks only doing ranked, unranked matchmaking is a complete joke, its like flex que rankings messed everything up even worse.

The Bíg Ticket1 votes

You are right, it is messed up because it uses normal MMR and some Diamond players barely play normal so they have low normal mmr.

paisy1 votes

I've played with a couple diamond boarders recently. I'm only B3. Proof that I deserve diamond lol

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