I dont understand matchmaking

GermanGalGadot··1 votes·266 views

So Ive been playing League since season 1. Quite a few years ya know? Im no diamond payer, but im definetly pretty decent. I can fill any role I need to, I can handle "op" champs without getting over frustrated, I know map awareness, calling MIA's, when to gank, when to back off, when to fight and who to target, how to build blah blah blah. Now, over the years Ive noticed that every time I try to play a ranked game, I consistently have some really bad players on my team but the people I play against are pretty good players. My teams literally almost always start fighting with each other, leaving me sitting there like, "Guys its just a game, why dont you try and help each other?" Ive even jumped on my brothers Gold ranked account and played jst to test my theory. I do FINE on his account. I get great players who are cordial and can really play the game. Now my question is, why am I classed with such baddies? Is it because im unranked? Ive had most of my placement games but this is exactly the reason why I dont play ranked and really havent over all these years. Is it just part of the laying field? Having to crawl your way out of the bottom tier players? I think maybe RIOT needs to reconsider their matchmaking. I get stuck with folks that build zeal on Veigar,people who freak out on me for not chasing a Singed through the jungle, people who literally just DONT KNOW HOW to play the game. Why? I dont make poor team desicions, I hold my lanes, why is my individual efforts in my games not calculated into my placements? I do fine in my games but my team usually loses. Explain?

4 Comments

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

I would suggest sticking to Ranked for the competitive experience and decent matchmaking, but not during preseason.

Preseason will have a lot of players that really don't care about where their rank is (maybe they don't know it still affects their MMR?), and people trying out the new changes but not really knowing how to use/handle them. Normals even during the ranked season aren't much better because people use it to practice for ranked or just fool around, and matchmaking isn't that great because it's completely separate from Ranked so you can see Diamonds with Bronzes because their Normal MMR is the same.

TL;DR - Take a break and come back when the season starts, and play more Ranked than Normals.

GermanGalGadot1 votes

Hey, i appreciate your response. It kind of blows that the answer is "well...dont play right now" but I see why. I was expecting anyone who replied to just tell me i was bad. Thats usually how League players like to tell me off lol. Now, question, should I expect a slightly better result after so many ranked games once the season starts? Or am I pretty doomed to have to play with baddies and pray that I get someone playing on a scrub account with an OP champ on my team?

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

There's nothing you can do about the other people, so don't worry about them. I suggest using the preseason as a break from playing, and instead reading guides and watching pros to determine what they are doing differently from you. You might be able to change some very small details about what you do which will give you much better performance (such as dropping that Totem for a Sweeper when you pick up Sightstone, dropping much more wards, and using at least 1 Pink every game).

If you're determined that it's everyone else keeping you down then it's impossible to improve.

Next season we'll also have Dynamic Queue and you can play non-team Ranked with up to 4 friends; if you don't usually Duo Queue, you might be interested in trying it. If you queue with someone of a higher MMR then it will result in a higher MMR group of players around you.

GermanGalGadot1 votes

For sure. Again, I appreciate your response. I finished my placements and got Silver5 so I probably will have better luck as far as my teammates go than in previous ranked attempts. Im also better than before. Good call with the ward swaps. Especially since I love me some support Taric. Ill make it a point to spectate more. Cant hurt to learn other players points of view.

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