This was such an unfair game. Matchmaker is so silly.

Aerothal·Jun 23, 2016·2 votes·894 views

Matchmaker doesn't at all take into account games played or experience. Only looking at the mmr doenst cut it! this game was unfair and a stomp! http://imgur.com/B2gM8hg

7 Comments

disregardableJun 23, 20162 votes

For the record, 13 MMR is a very small number difference. It's only when there's a 150-200+ MMR difference that it's noticeable.

AerothalJun 23, 20161 votes

that's exactly my point though. MMR is a shit indicator and should not be the only determining factor for placing people into a match!

Brand is approximated around 1200 mmr at the moment. So am i. He is the last person to blame for the loss that game because he was outmatched not by mmr but by experience.

Matchmaker doesn't look at experience.

for matchmaker it doesnt matter that brand has 78 normal wins while i have played 2000. matchmaker doesnt care that zyra is my main and that i have played thousands of games on her since season 3 while Brand is new to the game and has neither experience in the game nor at the champ.

do you see my point?

disregardableJun 23, 20161 votes

Oh, I see. This is a common complaint about unranked players, it's not matchmaking's fault. Realistically it's impossible to place new players correctly. The MMR system works off statistics for a large number of games, and until you play 30-50 games, you're going to be at the wrong ranking.

AerothalJun 23, 20161 votes

no, its not a complaint about new players. that would be silly. its a complaint about how matchmaking ONLY takes into account mmr. look at the matchmaking i posted. On the other team there are three unranked players, two of which weren't ranked last season either. Matchmaker could have easily put me and teemo on their team and brand and garen on ours and the matchup would have been 10 times fairer.

But what matchmaker did, instead of weighing overall game experience and taking it into account as well as looking at mmr, it does not care and uses mmr only which leads to a shitfest like we had here. the result is a Surrender@20 game that was onesided and not competitive at all. and also a shitty ranked experience for the new player on the block (Brand).

ShhYoureMutedJun 23, 20162 votes

The Ranked and Matchmaking System is a joke. It only counts wins and losses. It doesn't accurately gauge a player's skill or knowledge of the game. This is one reason why there are feeders at every tier. The system doesn't look at KDAs. Look at the high death averages on your team.

EMetaJun 23, 20161 votes

Even in the LCS, it's not that rare to see a bad team get ahead early and stomp a team much better than them.

It looks to me like the main reason for the stomp here was that team A was playing mostly new champs (for them) while team B was playing their mains. That often leads to stomps, but I sure don't want to play the same champ every game.

AerothalJun 23, 20161 votes

This time i was on the happy side of the equation. But i have been on the other side and its no fun at all.

Lets look at just my lane. Brand vs. Zyra is a fair matchup with a slight edge to brand if he can land his skillshots and avoid unnecessary plant poke. But this game was unfair in many points. This brand was new to ranked, had 78 normal wins and no experience on the champ. I know i am low elo, i am not the best player with a pretty high death average. But i have since season 3 about 2k games played on my favorite champ Zyra.

Basing matchmaking solely on mmr rather than taking into account games played and masteries on champions leads to something like this where a new level 30 has the bright idea to try out ranked.

I have also had games where someone like brand is being placed into my promo games because his mmr is at 1200 solely due to the fact that he just started ranked. Every single time the player new to ranked would feed and be stomped, simply because they didnt know that ranked is played differently than norms.

I am not happy with matchmaking.