@Riot:Noob and Smurf MMR

SwiftKitten88··3 votes·432 views

We’ve got a new algorithm that’s gone through a few tests that looks like it could get players to an accurate matchmaking rating much more quickly than right now. As a bonus, this can help with getting smurfs to the right places faster. We’ll let you know when this comes out of testing, assuming it plays out the way we expect.

this is what we need.

i would GLADLY wait even 5 more min in que if it meant i could get players i could rely on.

the biggest issue with silver the is skill difference between player who have proved themselves by climbing out of bronze from the previous season and the players who have placed directly into silver their first season is astronomical.

because w/e team gets that 15% of players that is the "noob" is effectively in a 4v5.

it's has been SOO LONG since i ave had the opportunity to face some skilled opponents, because climbing is just so randomly up and down based on which team gets the new player .

i never feel "outplayed" anymore.. its always: i die becuase the my other laner fed them have 5k more gold than me even though they are playing like shit and on equal gold, if even if i had 2k gold less i could easy beat them.

please give me BETTER allies and HARDER opponents.

please do your very best to implement this as soon and as accurately as possible.

whether or not you help sort players by how long they have been playing, or if they have CLIMBED out of the ranked below or were placed direct into it.. you can decide.

but PLEASE add this as soon as you can!!!

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5050BS1 votes

because w/e team gets that 15% of players that is the "noob" is effectively in a 4v5.

Wrong

4v6 because they are feeding gold to the enemy team. afkers dont give any gold.

SwiftKitten881 votes

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Wrong

4v6 because they are feeding gold to the enemy team. afkers dont give any gold.

fair enough...

haaaaaaalp1 votes

If I understand correctly, the system isn't about increasing queue times to get better games. It simply will try to guess new player skill instead of putting everyone at 1200.

Keep in mind that this won't improve game quality if game balance still sucks. The vast majority of the problems from uneven matches right now is due to problems with game balance and the meta. Games are so volitile that matchups between players with indistinguishable skill levels are turning into stomps. Better matchmaking won't fix this.

SwiftKitten881 votes

{quoted}

If I understand correctly, the system isn't about increasing queue times to get better games. It simply will try to guess new player skill instead of putting everyone at 1200.

Keep in mind that this won't improve game quality if game balance still sucks. The vast majority of the problems from uneven matches right now is due to problems with game balance and the meta. Games are so volitile that matchups between players with indistinguishable skill levels are turning into stomps. Better matchmaking won't fix this.

maybe at your skill level that might be the case... but it takes about 20 seconds of watching a player in a 1v1 and u can tell if they player is as new player or one from CLIMBED to silver.

its really THAT appearant. w/e team gets that player loses 9x out of 10. and yes the match only happen about half the time.. but that's still around 50% of your game that are decided base on matchmaking its its HORRIBLE.

if they could just weed out those few players from our que it would be SOO much easier to climb.

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