I'm plagued by unbalanced duos

Someshta·1/3/2014, 4:56:50 AM·3 votes·413 views

Literally the past 7 games have all had an unbalanced duo on one team or the other. Meaning a gold was playing with a bronze or a higher gold was playing with a low silver. And that lands a bronze or a low silver on my team. And that abnormally low player lanes against the abnormally high player, and its a no contest loss.

This is ridiculous. Balancing a team around the average ELO just doesn't work. You only have 5 data points so that's barely an average at all. And with the laning phase as crucial as it is, there's no way to keep things even! This is crazy. Sometimes you get a game like that, but I'm getting them every single queue. It's so annoying. Especially because the matchups have not been in my favor. That means my games are pure luck! I'm so frustrated here...ffs.

@Riot - rethink balancing games with disparate duo's. This is unfair and annoying.

You can say all you want about it being up to the team, but when a Gold 2 riven plays against a Bronze 2 garen, that team gets an immediate, strong advantage. I even captained the game to keep everyone friendly, and we almost won. But this is too many games in a row to go unannounced. Why is this happening?

UPDATE: 12 days later, every solo q ranked game has had a duo in it. Every duo has been disparate.

6 Comments

Amak1/3/2014, 9:49:23 AM3 votes

I've yet to see a consistent advantage given to teams with unfairly-matched Duo Qs, statistically. I see the disparate duos all the time, but they don't generally seem to make any difference in terms of win or loss rate. If I lose the game, it's rarely because of that one duo.

The last game I played, in fact, had a Gold Lee Sin and the dreaded Kassadin mid. But my team communicated well during champion select and we had amazing coordination in the game. We beat them without any trouble.

Moreover, I would say that experience has shown me that those high-level players who are elo-boosting their friends are really easy to anger and quickly begin flaming their team for being "baddies" just because they mistakenly believe that they are great because their Rank is higher. It's a double-edged sword, really.

I think Riot would fix it if the numbers really showed that the disparate duos (love that name, by the way) were really having an unfair impact on the Ranked ladder.

TimoDerBeste1/3/2014, 6:26:51 AM1 votes

I UNDERSTAND YOUR FEELINGS AND I AM ONE WHO SUFFER AS WELL. RIOT JUST GIVES ME THE FEELING OF TO PLAY OR TO QUIT. I DON'T KNOW HOW DUMB RIOT HAS TO BE TO DO SUCH THINGS.

Paper1/3/2014, 11:21:56 PM1 votes

Duo should be removed from "SOLO" Queue. There should be a separate queue that allows duos, but I don't want my rank depending on the skill of the last-pick, 2/19 Gold I Draven who is duo'd with a Plat I Ahri. It's not balanced at all.

Then there's the duo's who first pick for the last pick, and before you know it, you have a 3-14 Nasus top who's Gold II playing vs a 10-2 Diamond V Riven. Tell me I should be winning these games with horrible unbalanced matchmaking.

Someshta1/6/2014, 1:26:57 AM1 votes

This is still happening. My last two games: S1 duo with S5. S1 duo with B1. Every single solo game I'm playing is a disparate duo. I'm stuck in an infinite recursion. Someone break me out.