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Match making system

HackD13··1 votes·249 views

Dear Riot games, I'v been playing your game since almost 2 years and I enjoy it a lot but i think that there's a problem with your match making systeme. When i play with my friend who is Silver 1 and i'm silver 3 we are always playing with teammates that makes us loose games a lot because of feeding, afk or trolls and we cant carry our teams everytime. I dont know why but i feel that the match making is always on the favor of the other team and when I check the match history of my teammate they are always feeding or in a loosing streak but the other team are always in winning streak or all there KDA are positive. I dont understand why is the matchmaking always putting the good players together and bad together too. I would like to know how the matchmaking systeme is working bacause now, I dont really understand how it is working.

Thank you for reading my letter and i would be very grateful if you help me to understand how is it working and to upgrade it if it's possible.

( Sorry for my english I'm fench and it took me a lot of effort to write this letter)

HackD13

4 Comments

Tichel Mrottier1 votes

yeaah I agree with you I'd like a lot to know!

Key Why Yes1 votes

yes, my teammate are always weaker than the other team

Weathered2 votes

If your teammates are always weaker then someone else's teammates are always stronger. Unless you got really unlucky it doesn't really work like that.

JRobin311 votes

In my experience, I get losing streaks, winning streaks, and miscellaneous games. During losing streaks, I consistently get teammates that I just can't carry. I can get ten games in a row like this even if I score an S grade. During winning streaks, I often score S grades, but it is highly likely that my teammates are also scoring well on my win streaks. I can get ten games in a row like this. It often isn't clear if I am trending up or down until I look at the result of 30+ games. I can go up or down several divisions or even switch tiers as a result of win/loss trends.

I can understand why players first question the matchmaking system itself, but I think there are other issues that cause the variability I experience. For one thing, new players enter at an ELO associated to Silver. For another, players don't consistently play there best champions game to game and the their performance from one champion to the next can vary significantly. There are many factors that any matchmaking system is going to have a difficult time dealing with and the difficulties tend to evolve as you go up in rank. RIOT has talked about some of the problems that exist primarily at the top most tiers (Master and Challenger in particular), but they don't say much about the difficulties the lower tiers experience.

TL;DR The matchmaking system is constantly in the process of sorting players towards their appropriate rank, the difficulties are different at each tier of play, and the matchmaking system can't be blamed if players don't perform consistently. That said, I'd like to know more detail about how the system functions as well because I feel that the league system doesn't really help me understand my skill relative to other players of the game.

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