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What is up with LOL's match making? (Warning Rant)

Vlasimuthe·8/21/2017, 11:04:03 PM·8 votes·474 views

I know this topic sounds like complaining but I am genuinely curious what peoples thoughts on this subject are. We all have had those awesome 10 win streaks where your teammates keep their heads out of their bums long enough for you to carry the game. But there is always the fallout after the win streaks and I mean like every time. Most likely it is because your MMR is too high for your rank, so the game gives you low MMR teammates in order to balance the game. The problem I find though is 1 decent player cannot 1v9 when their own team has 4 ragers, and the enemy team is all balanced MMR.

This past week I have been on such a win streak, every one of my teammates had the role they wanted, we had several games where our team fell behind but we stayed level headed and fought for objectives. I get 2 wins into my gold promos and just a massive turn around. 3 games in a row a player was auto filled into jungle, at least one rager each game, no one will follow instructions, objectives? don't you mean kills? I am jungler! let me split bot while baron is up, enemy team all up? let's baron throw!

I am sorry for sounding tilted but it is so incredibly frustrating to play LOL at times. And yes I have watched back these game I lost and see many small mistakes from myself which could have made the game so much better. I know this is just part of climbing but why must it feel like you are fighting against the game rather than playing it. Solution wise I am not sure how to solve this problem or even if it really is one in Riot's eyes. But let me know your experiences because again, I actually want to know your thoughts. End rant.

TLDR; It feels like you are not rewarded for playing good but actually punished.

5 Comments

Palaven8/21/2017, 11:13:04 PM2 votes

Its frustrating but its part of the game. To climb best you gotta know when to dodge. Use that one "free" dodge per day. If you use it, stop playing ranked for the next 18 hours until its up again. Try to avoid bad team comps or games where you have autofills in key roles.

Ok sure but why8/21/2017, 11:12:31 PM1 votes

Well, they seem to put the retarded feeders on my team frequently enough, so maybe it's all rigged

option paralysis8/22/2017, 9:33:41 AM1 votes

I went from p3 to d2 with a 60% win rate.. then I got such bad teammates I dropped to d5 and stopped playing ranked for few months. Now I'm climbing again in d4, but guess what my win rate is... that's right 50%. :) Riot is a piece of shit and wants you to play and grind the game as long as possible.