Smurf or not, this is the most BS matchmaking ever

Johannes Kepler·11/6/2014, 6:29:06 AM·2 votes·741 views

Putting this here because I consider it matchmaking balance.

Long story short, most of my queues are around 10 minutes. I'm playing with other smurfs, and I expect that. I queued with a friend and his friends. My friend is platinum MMR and everyone else is bronze. Sure, I expect to be playing against all 30s. What I don't expect is playing against 3 diamond players at level 18. Now, on my main I play with high MMR players all the time. But it's freaking impossible when you have no masteries or runes. Really, I don't care if I'm a smurf; I don't want to be playing against people with free stats that I don't have access to.

Edit: The game before that I queued solo and was the only person in the game without a rune page. Everyone with either upper 20s if not 30 (with a decent rank).

4 Comments

360D3GR3SS11/6/2014, 6:59:22 AM6 votes

In case you did not know, Normals are different from Ranked. Some people ONLY play Ranked resulting in a low Normals MMR, thus them being matched with you (no offense to you). The people you went up against probably have a low normal game count. The other possibility is you have won a ridiculous amount of games on this smurf so it naturally puts you with people who have a similar normals win rate.

AloneInTheCrowd11/6/2014, 4:09:18 PM1 votes

Smurfing gone wrong lol . Fun thread .