Blind Pick and Normal Que Unbalanced?

Boomwaller·Feb 17, 2016·2 votes·888 views

Hey all,

I have been checking the queue types of both blind and draft for SR, and have noticed lately that it takes no consideration of rank or skill level when matchmaking. Does this seem to be the case for anyone else? I have had multiple games bronze - diamond ranked players, and occasionally level 20's. I just find this odd due to Riot removing Dominion for saying one reason for removal is unbalanced queues. Anyways find it hard to enjoy blind or draft due to this. Ranked is fine go figure.

(Also note I have screenshots to show this data, and was not duo queued when this was done purely by myself not queued with anyone else.)

3 Comments

Deep Terror NamiFeb 17, 20162 votes

It seems mismatched because Normal MMR is completely separate from Ranked MMR; you can be Challenger Ranked but rarely play Normals and have Silver equivalent MMR there. It's rare that it'd be the other way around with a significant gap (such as a Diamond MMR Normals, but in Ranked you're Silver).

BoomwallerFeb 17, 20161 votes

Oh no I realize MMR is skewed from ranked to normal's, but the large disparity between them is concerning. Thank you though for the post!

MinardeFeb 17, 20161 votes

Differences in attitude also contribute to the disparity. In general, people tend to take ranked fairly seriously. In contrast, there's a wider range of thoughts towards normal games. A stronger player might have a lower MMR simply because he typically slacks off in normals; a weaker player might have a higher MMR because he takes normals seriously. As a result, they end up in the same game.

The "unbalanced queues" thing for Dominion was Riot stretching for more reasons. Matchmaking has to balance quality and speed, so strange matches will occur whenever the playerbase is relatively small. Same issue with solos running into full LCS teams when Riot enabled Dynamic Queue for SR.