Rank matchmaking should depends solely on individual performance

OMGDarkForce·Oct 17, 2016·2 votes·584 views

It is only fair to match players with similar performances, and mmr does not reflect that at all. People can get boosted to tiers where they will never reach. They can also mess up the matchmaking by partying up with friends who have much higher mmr. However, with overall performances, there is a different story. Even with boosting, the games boosters played will have little influences over their overall performances. Those agree or disagree with me please leave your comments below. I really hope riot can have a deep look into this.

12 Comments

Commit SudokuOct 17, 20161 votes

league is a team game so no, i think people need to get it out of their heads that ranked isnt a test of how good you are individually its a test of how good you are on any team

OMGDarkForceOct 17, 20161 votes

Wrong. League is only a team game when it is team rank or professional games. When you are queued with strangers there is no teamwork. You are more likely to hate each other during the process. "Teamwork" does not apply in solo queue. It is simply about your own performances and it should be. Imagine you are queued with 4 players who are bronze but boosted to plat vs 5 true plats, who do you think are most likely to win. With matchmaking with kda boosting wont have much effects. Because noobs can easily ruined the kda built by boosters by going 0-10 for 2,3 games.

Commit SudokuOct 17, 20161 votes

how can you say wrong is there not 4 other players on your team or is it a free for all it is a team game regardless of you may think

OMGDarkForceOct 17, 20161 votes

Teamwork only truely applies when you know everyone else. How can you call it teamwork when ur teammates simply do not listen to ur call, or even work against you. Do not tell me you never met people like that. Simply having people on you team does not mean there is teamwork.

Commit SudokuOct 17, 20161 votes

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Teamwork only truely applies when you know everyone else. How can you call it teamwork when ur teammates simply do not listen to ur call, or even work against you. Do not tell me you never met people like that. Simply having people on you team does not mean there is teamwork.

this is dumb logic im not arguing with you about this

leaugesbaneOct 17, 20161 votes

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Teamwork only truely applies when you know everyone else. How can you call it teamwork when ur teammates simply do not listen to ur call, or even work against you. Do not tell me you never met people like that. Simply having people on you team does not mean there is teamwork.

sorry dude thats not how teamwork works while it helps to know them part of the reason meta exists is to provide a starting point for randoms to have it

teamwork is a life skill and far to many people just dont have it

NarsicusOct 17, 20161 votes

Yes it does mean there is teamwork, just in some circumstances the teamwork is terrible.

Whether you like it or not League of Legends is a team based game that is played 5v5, so what matters most is being able to help the team win.

Whatever metric you think is more important is quite simply wrong, because when it comes to being good at a game there is no better metric than how good you are at being able to 'win' the game.

OMGDarkForceOct 17, 20161 votes

The key point is simply this. Riot believes mmr reflects skill level and they match players that way. But there is no better way of matching similar skill levels by simply matching their kda. It cannot be more straightforward.

CalypsaOct 17, 20161 votes

So what's your standard deviation on ranking people based on KDA? How do you match that a support main that usually goes 0/5 with a mid laner that goes 5/0 but they are the same skill level. This is cool idea but it's lacking in a lot of important aspects. League isn't for KDA warriors and league's MMR system doesn't grade you off that, it grades you off how well you did in X match through teamwork, not just yourself. You can be the best player but if you don't know how to work as a team, in real life and in game, then you won't get anywhere. You need to corroborate with people to make the most out of all of your ideas. I hate this stigma that people like Trick2G has established in the community where teamwork < individual performance. If you haven't realized, the other four members of your team are usually the reason you can go 20/0 on your main champion. So unless you can tell me that you can 1v5 a game from start to finish then don't tell me teamwork doesn't matter.

OMGDarkForceOct 17, 20161 votes

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CalypsaOct 17, 20161 votes

I mean you have games where everyone just feeds but if you did well in that game your MMR won't skyrocket down like you assume it will. And it may even reward you with a boost in MMR if you played extremely well but still lost. I've seen people get demoted after winning games before because even though they won the game, they played so poorly that they their MMR was much lower than their own league, so I assume the same can happen if the roles were reversed. I'm not saying MMR is 100% calculated on everyone else, I'm saying MMR is calculated based on how well you played in the game through USING teamwork to scale advantages and eventually win the game.

OMGDarkForceOct 17, 20161 votes

Do you know how kda is calculated? even supports can have a high kda. "mmr system grades you off how well you did in match through teamwork". Are you implying I will gain elo even if entire team is feeding nonstop and I am 20-2-15 myself? I will have no problem if the system will reward me for playing well even on a loss. But no, it does not work that way.