I know your playerbase is alot lower than it used to be, but FFS at least have some semblance of matchmaking balance. No wonder fucking games are one sided coin flips. Because Riot's matchmaking is god awful. No more completely seperate MMR for ranked and normals. The matchmaking system should at least fucking try to do put a person of similar rank on each team.
Their playerbase is the highest it's ever been at 100mil+
It's just that Plat/Diamond players rarely play anything aside from ranked, so their matchmaking has to put them in games with lower tier players. If they have 20+ minute queue times for Ranked, where most people in that rating are playing, imagine what their queue times would be in normals were they locked to playing in their rating.
It's also true that normal and ranked MMR's aren't linked at all, which, while I feel like ranked MMR should influence normal MMR to an extent, is also understandable because higher rating players don't play normals very often. If they are, it's either to detilt after a loss streak and just shut their brains off (in which case, playing against low tier players is alright because they won't be playing at their real level) or because they're playing with friends that are low tier (again, fine because they're likely just gonna troll). To think that a Plat/Diamond player is in every one of your normal games playing at a serious level is just plain ignorance about these players' routines.
Why would someone's rank be taken into account for normal matchmaking?
No, it should not. Normals already have their own hidden mmr which is taken into account.
The reason why normals are so polarising is precisely because one game I might decide to play my main role and the other one I'll just try stuff out.
If you want a (relatively) fair matchmaking with equal skill, go ranked because that's what ranked is for.
But I queued with one... No intention of ruining matchmaking, but my friend group ranges from high diamond to bronze (no iron tho). Normals will never have good matchmaking because of shit like that, which we all accept going into it, we just want to have a good time playing with friends.
No thanks, I'll rather not wait 20 mins for normal game.
