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The ranked matchmaker is horrible, and here's a tally to prove it

Void2258·6/8/2014, 3:21:45 PM·1 votes·1,230 views

The ranked matchmaker is absolutely terrible. It gives bad teammates continually, giving me no opportunity to influence game. To prove it I am going to keep a running tally of every game I play here. I will only report declared and intentional trolling, I know some people are just outplayed.

June 8 2014:

Game 1 Purple Side: player declares game over after first blood, feeds and harasses team so much that two other players start intentionally feeding just to spite him. First player than leaves games. Surrender at 20.

Game 2 Purple Side: player performers badly in a single gank and support RELENTLESSLY harasses him about the one failed gank while performing horribly due to constant typing. Entire team asks harasser to stop and he declares that now he is trolling on purpose. Surrender at 25 when they have an inhib and every outside tower to our 2 due to 4v5 teamfights.

Demoted

Game 3 Blue Side: No trolling, Victory. Somehow my input method editor got tripped and I could only type in Japanese for the whole match, though.

Game 4 Purple Side: No trolling but horribly bad play, lots of feeding, and lots of harassment. Defeat.

Game 5 Purple Side: Horrible harassment by ADC player toward top player. ADC player also massively feeding, but don't think it was intentional, just really dumb (such as the time he tried to 1v5 the enemy while already down 8 deaths to the opposing ADC). Defeat.

Game 6 Dodge: Person not talking in select takes role already spoken for, forcing other guy to play the only remaining role, which he explicitly and repeatedly said he couldn't play. Dodged.

Game 6 Purple Side: Mid came in with a character he admitted he didn't know how to play, without runes, because "it counters Nid", whom he then fed while continually asking why she did so much damage. The other team picked up on this and 3 man camped top after each of her kills, making it indefensible. This snowballed into a massive loss. Defeat.

Game 7 Blue Side: Top opponent brought wrong runes, fed hard. Suspect harassment but was not in all chat so cannot say for sure. Enemy jungler and ADC were trash talking team in all chat in general. Our ADC somewhat overwhelmed but not crazy bad or feeding, and not intentional. Victory.

Game 8 Purple Side: ADC Abandons game from 5-15 min mark to go to the bathroom. Resulting 4v5 power play is too much since bot and mid were already having trouble. Defeat.

Game 9 Purple Side: Enemy team suffers double AFk for the beginning of the game. Unable to come back. Victory.

Game 10 Blue Side: Worthy battle. No raging or trolling of any kind on either side. Victory.

Total for the day: 4/10 Legit wins: 2 Legit losses: 1

18 Comments

Manchette6/8/2014, 3:33:18 PM2 votes

It seems that the problem is not with the matchmaking system, but with the amount of toxicity in the player-base. Your recording of this is still worthwhile and valuable, and a testament as to why the tribunal is needed, however in concern to skill and matchmaking, I believe that it is considerably different from trolling and harassment.

Void22586/10/2014, 12:50:28 AM1 votes

June 9 2014

Game 1 Purple Side: Our mid AFKs for the first 5 min, but we are able to pull together and still win, helped in large part by the other team being horribly toxic to each other in all chat all game, including in the middle of team fights. Victory.

Promo Series

Game 2 Purple Side: Arguments in select and forced to mid. Despite large scale harassment from the jungler directed at me because I would dare to not be excellent in every role and bot not being very good and feeding, we are able to pull out a win barely. Victory.

Void22586/10/2014, 3:23:30 PM1 votes

June 10 2014

Game 1 Purple Side: Horrible team composition, but can't dodge due to being in promos. Bot lane feeds allowing them to roam. Leona player continually stuns tanks instead of damaging enemies, so unable to jump on high value targets. Jungling Rengar unable to hit bola, asks when they changed it to skillshot indicating he has not played the character in months before using him in ranked. Defeat.

Void22586/14/2014, 11:44:43 PM1 votes

June 14th 2014 (took some days off to play normals)

Game 1 Blue side: Support troll picks and jungler actively refuses to gank (insists his job is to farm the jungle). Constant jungle pressure from their side gives them an early lead, and when the jungler finally decides to help out it is too late. Defeat.

Series End - No promotion

Game 2 Purple: ADC player wanted mid, so he intentionally fed for 10min, then left. Game ended at 16 min due to team deciding it wasn't worth trying after that and everyone AFKing in spawn. Defeat.

Void22586/20/2014, 2:47:56 AM1 votes

June 19th 2014

Game 1 Purple Side: No trolling, a few organizational issues but nothing major. Victory.

DAMN YOU RIOT 97LP!!!!

Void22586/21/2014, 7:35:07 PM1 votes

June 21th 2014

Game 1 Blue Side: Jungler feeds and dies to jungle monsters, claims lag and DCs. Top feeds hard as well, but probably not intentionally (first 2 deaths to going in with horrible jungler ganks). Mid and bot unable to compensate for 15+ kill deficit and accompanying lack of towers. Defeat.

Game 2 Blue Side: 5th pick declares he will top and refuses to not pick his champ even after top is taken, forcing a Malphite to mid. Game froze up when I tried to dodge, closing but launching the game anyway. Upon rejoining and loading the guy decided to go mid instead and we played through and won easily. Victory.

Game 3 Purple Side: Enemy top lane throws a fit after we get the first 2 kills and leaves. Resulting 4v5 is easily won. Victory.

Promo series start

Game 4 Purple Side: Jungler gave up first blood in bad gank, which he blamed on bot lane. Declared that bot had thrown the game and that he was jungling for the next 30 min, and didn't once leave the jungle for the rest of the game. Top further picked a lulu vs a fiora (lulu picked after fiora), resulting in a bad top lane as well. At ~15min both top and jungle left the game. At that point everyone left on my team decided to afk in spawn, as a 3v5 was not winnable, so the game would end sooner. Defeat.

Game 5 Purple Side: Horrible ADC player, but not intentionally throwing. Feed level onto enemy ADC is too high, and it is impossible to engage onto enemy successfully due to his damage output. Defeat.

Series Lost

Void22586/24/2014, 12:37:08 AM1 votes

June 23rd 2014

Game 1 Blue Side: Enemy mid afks for the first 5 min. Enemy adc goes on horrible rant across all chat and (according to them) team chat for the entire game about how every sucks and deserves to be bronze. Surrender @ 20. Victory.

Game 2 Purple Side: Top and adc were horrible players and every team fight ended up 3v5 due to them constantly being caught. Not intentional but not carryable either. Defeat.

Void22586/29/2014, 10:33:24 PM1 votes

June 29th 2014

Game 1 Blue Side: Outplayed. Defeat.

Game 2 Blue Side: No trolling on our side. Cannot say what happened on the other side, they were doing badly but not talking in all chat. Victory.

Void22587/2/2014, 1:45:41 AM1 votes

July 1 2014

Match 1 Purple Side: Both sides having trouble with bad, but no trolling, players. After a tense match it eventually ended with us barely pushing in following an ace for the win. Victory!

DAMN YOU RIOT 98LP!!!

Void22587/4/2014, 11:31:03 PM1 votes

July 4th 2014

Game 1 Purple Side: Enemy jungler rage quits at 5 min. Despite this, due to mid actively refusing to ever stop split pushing and join the team for fights and top was being kill hungry and constantly going 1v4 and chasing, game was still close. At 35min our adc left. By refusing to let our mid split push by following him around the map, he eventually stopped trying to run away from his own team and we pushed together. Victory at 42 min (not worth all this effort for 2 LP).

Series Start!

Void22587/5/2014, 4:00:11 PM1 votes

July 5th 2014

Series in progress

Game 1 Purple Side: Despite our being slightly behind at that point overall, enemy mid quits after dieing twice. Other side puts up a good fight but can't win 4v5. Victory.

Game 2 Purple Side: Both teams DCing continuously and suffering massive lag when not DCed. Enemy DCed less, so won a bunch of teamfights by default by not having the match stop working in mid fight. Unable to play under such conditions. Defeat.

Game 3 Blue Side: My teammates spent all of select typing insults at each other. Initial engages were really bad, with people refusing to coordinate at all. Eventually, people finally grouped up and despite continued bad coordination, we eventually pushed through. Victory

Series Successful. Promoted to Bronze 2 for the 17th time this season.

Void22587/7/2014, 12:07:47 AM1 votes

July 6th 2014

Game 1 Blue Side: Enemy team was suffering massive rage in all chat. Too busy fighting each other to fight us. Victory.

Void22587/12/2014, 7:16:23 PM1 votes

July 12th 2014

Game 1 Blue Side: Our adc leaves we get down a few kills (mostly on him). Cannot sustain 4v5. Defeat.

Game 2 Blue Side: Opening game is a bit bad but pulled together and eventually we win. Victory.

Game 3 Blue Side: Our jungler absolutely refused to stop chasing and diving 1v5. Unable to win team fights due to being constantly down. Kill count about even but tower difference massive. Defeat.

Game 4 Purple Side: Good team synergy. Enemy team fighting amongst themselves. Victory.

Void22587/13/2014, 9:51:00 PM1 votes

July 13 2014

Game 1 Purple Side: Intentionally throwing duo in bot and INDEPENDENT intentional thrower in top lane. Me and mid cannot carry game alone vs. intentional trolling. Defeat.

Game 2 Purple Side: Hard fought, slow victory in progress when adc suffers massive computer crash. Given how even it was 5v5, 4v5 is unwinnable. They slowly grind through our best efforts by shear virtue of having a power play as we try to hold out hoping for reconnect. By the time adc returns 15min later, it is too late to do anything, as we have nothing but our nexus left. Defeat.

Void22587/15/2014, 12:53:59 AM1 votes

July 14th 2014

Game 1 Purple Side: Both teams did well. Hard fought. Victory.

Game 2 Blue Side: Game began with both sides completely DCing during loading. Hardcore lag throughout match, multiple DCs. Jungler and ADC absolutely refused to work with team. Jungler constantly going to baron and starting no matter what anyone said, continually caught there. ADC refusing to come to team fights, going to jungle instead. Both constantly insulting team (and yelling at eachother) about how bad we all were and how we sucked and were throwing. Game was pretty even vue to other players hard carrying multiple 3v5 fights, but simply could not compensate for having to do it all the time. Could not mount defense since jungler and ADC both refused to do it, ever. Defeat.

Void22587/17/2014, 2:33:45 AM1 votes

July 16th 2014

Game 1 Blue Side: Enemy team fighting with each other all over all chat. Good synergy with mid laner and a thresh that can land hooks led to a pretty hard stomp. Victory.

Void22587/22/2014, 2:54:05 AM1 votes

July 21st 2014

Game 1 Blue Side: Outplayed. Support didn't know character as well as he insisted he did (Constant missed blitz hooks, 0 zoning) and mid outclasssed. Defeat.