Match Making Imbalance still After 3 Years

Aerilus·12/7/2015, 2:23:57 AM·11 votes·525 views

It's been 3 years since I started playing this, and the match making is still laughingly broken. Sure, there are a few games where everyone is actually close in skill, but it's the exception more than the norm. The norm is having 5-6 'bad' players out of 10, with 1-3 smurfs and the rest being average. When I said 'bad' 'average' I'm talking relative to the average skill of all 10 players.

When I started playing 3 years ago, I quickly noticed the tendency of the match maker to not really give a fuck about what the average skill of the players is, rather, just find any game as quick as possible. I got better at the game, and no the issue never went away. When 9/10 games are a steamroll either for me or for the other team, and 1/10 are actually evenly matched, it gets old fast.

It's not fun when I get matched against people who are ridiculously worse at this game, whether on my team or the other team. An easy win is not (usually) fun. It's not fun when I get matched against people who are worlds better than I am, whether on my team or the other team.

No one wants to play a game where the enemy falls over like a house of cards. No one wants to play a game where your teammates are dying every 30 seconds cause the system is too slow at detecting smurfs. The real fun comes when your team works together to secure a victory.. helping each other instead of 1-2 people carrying the whole team. It's honestly a joke to see that happen almost every single game. That's all I have to say.

5 Comments

Penns12/7/2015, 3:03:05 AM2 votes

Ranked matchmaking is pretty ok (just looking at elo, not bs smurfs), but what is pretty dumb are normal games... Like, I just want to try out a champ for fun, next thing you know theres a diamond player that tryhards his soul out with some broken champ that he probably even mains put up against your full gold or below team lol. Here, I just played one https://i.gyazo.com/c1b35bda38dffaaf031c088700d48ef6.png kek

Bârd12/7/2015, 4:52:08 AM1 votes

Ranked games are generally fine.

Normal games are broken atm because of preseason. People who only play ranked have shit normals mmr, so you end up with Diamonds in games with unranked people or bronzies.

A Liberal12/7/2015, 2:30:18 PM1 votes

Will matchmaking ever find true balance? Akali