No wonder new players have such a terrible experience [Flaws in Matchmaking]
I keep hearing people talk about how new players keep getting flamed and I always thought that was unfortunate and that it was most likely the fault of smurfs.
Low and behold, I get matched with a fresh Master Yi today, he played terrible, started the wrong camp, didn't know what objectives to contest for or when to gank, often suicided on the enemy team but since Im sitting at a pretty level 140+ I just figured it was a bad player. I was wrong.
I ended up flaming a fresh level 28 player with less than 150 games because I thought he was intentionally playing bad. Only finding out about his level after the game. And worst part is that every time I told him off, aggressively pointing out his mistakes, he apologized for it. I was so sure this was just someone trying to throw my game and I'm convinced I gave this guy a terrible experience because of it.
There needs to be a change in matchmaking, matching people with literal years of experience against completely green players is blatantly unfair and feels terrible for all parties involved. Please for the love of god stop throwing new players into the deep end like this.
