Unbalanced Matchmaking.
I'm very tired of this ... It's been multiple seasons and I post at least one of these complaints each year and yet ... They still haven't fixed their game. Flex 5v5 Ranked, Flex 3v3 Ranked, Normal Draft, Normal Blind all have completely broken matchmaking. It's seriously annoying ... Especially in RANKED games to have unbalanced teams. I'm not talking about having that one troll or bad player ... I'm talking about having like 2-3 plat+ on the enemy team with silver -gold or worse on your team. I can't even count how many times I've had Diamond ranks on the enemy team this season in my RANKED games. What even is this matchmaking?
You placed me in Bronze for Flex 3v3 ranked ... I actually don't think I've seen a game this season that hasn't had a plat + on the enemy team. Hence the reason I stopped playing Flex 3v3. I was placed in silver in Flex 5v5, stopped playing Flex 5v5 ranked for the same reason, except it was mostly diamond ranks in that queue. I get it, people play with their lower ranked friends in normal queue but in ranked it shouldn't be allowed at all. How do you expect one maybe two gold ranks to carry a bunch of silver or worse players against 2-3 plat + players? I see less smurfs than I do actual plat-diamond on the enemy team ... What is this?
I'm actually borderline thinking about quitting league because it's not fun getting smashed every game in normal queue. ALSO SUPER TIRED OF WAITING FOR SEASON 9 TO START SO I DON'T HAVE TO PLAY THE BROKEN QUEUES. SOLO/DUO queue is the only queue keeping me from quitting this game because, side from smurfs, it actually tries to balance the teams and keep everyone in their own elo's. Sure some people might be boosted ... you might find new accounts near Gold where they don't belong ... and you will get the trolls and the smurfs ... but hey ... AT LEAST THE RANK OF THEIR ACCOUNT IS AVERAGE TO THE OTHER PLAYERS IN THAT GAME ...
I'm sure you've heard a lot of complaints about the jungle lately, I'm not even going to get into that ... Just gonna say I've quit jungle and no longer think it's fun to play. It's legitimately easier to CARRY with a support than it is with a jungler, AND YOU'RE ABOUT TO NERF JUNGLE AGAIN?! Glad I quit jungle (RIP thousands of hours of game-play trying to get better).
ALL I ASK EACH YEAR IS FOR YOU TO MATCH ME WITH PLAYERS IN THE RANK THAT YOU PLACED ME IN.
IF YOU PLACE SOMEONE IN BRONZE MATCH THEM WITH BRONZE ... IF YOU PLACE THEM IN SILVER MATCH THEM WITH SILVER ... IF YOU PLACE THEM IN PLAT ... PUT THEM AGAINST PLAT PLAYERS ... I'M REALLY NOT ASKING FOR MUCH HERE AND IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT HARD TO DO EITHER. IF THEY ARE PLAT + IN SOLO/DUO USE YOUR BRAIN AND DON'T PLACE THEM IN BRONZE ... I can accept a slight variation of ranks between the different queues ... maybe even a one division difference. Some people just play better solo than in a team, some people don't know the meta in 3v3 but ... in no way are their mechanics garbage enough for you to place a plat + player in bronze for their other queues.
One of my good friends has already quit this game because of this ... I'm sure others have too. I actually do love this game, I hope you don't take my SOLO/DUO queue away too ...
I've read of a bunch of nice changes you've made for us in SOLO/DUO queue this year ... I'm so happy to have read these changes. However it's still no excuse for you not fixing the queues that are currently broken ... It's literally been years of me reporting this and I haven't even seen a mention about you trying to fixing it.