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Can someone please tell me how matchmaking works?

Enferjean·3/19/2018, 3:22:18 PM·1 votes·662 views

sorry if this isnt the right place to ask this, but seriously i got one account banned for 14 days because the enemy team with 5 smurfs with account all around level 10 where doing pentakills every time we respawned they even killed us in our own nexus its really insane, i got reported by the 5 members of the enemy team and the only response from the support was that "when you level up youre going to face more and more skilled player" how is that fair? i know that there is no way to see if a player is smurfing, but seriously its not to fun to play anymore, you get matched with people in silver or level 60+ look at this match, i got literally destroyed in lane and all of my team too, the ashe vas level 8 but know how to kitting at that level https://imgur.com/a/kGtHe

is really unfair, im not ranting, i sometimes got smurf too and i know that is a unbanable thing, but how do i can evade a match with someone in the enemy team that is lv60+ im not really good at lol and i want to learn, but this way is really really difficult please riot do something i want to play with people with my same knowledge or a little bit more, not getting destroyed the first 5 minutes and then my team blaming on me asking for reports because a level 92 got feed and killed my entire team

5 Comments

AeroWaffle3/19/2018, 3:30:53 PM2 votes

Assuming you were DomNegative (the only one with both a poor score and is currently not in a match), selling all your items before the game ends is a bad idea.

PresBushDid7113/19/2018, 4:09:27 PM1 votes

When two MMRs love each other very much they are joined together in what is known as a match. A match is an exciting event that can last from a couple minutes to hours. It would appear in your match that you were left disappointed and overwhelmed. You are still new to this, and I assure you with time it will get better.

GL on the fields of justice.

usul12023/19/2018, 4:10:41 PM1 votes

Pre-30 matchmaking is..... Kinda a shitshow. Not gonna lie, having leveled an account through there recently it took me probably till level 20 to get properly ID'd at my mains elo. Smurfs get recognized almost immediately, but the difference between a bronze player making a new account and a plat one doing the same takes time. Duoing doesnt help this at all, since a new player duoing with a higher leveled player just puts everyone into a smurf game and things get unbalanced.

I...... Really don't have good advice other than keep playing. You'll get to a point where things even out. On your way there you can use these games as a way to get better though. Take a moment to look at what the better players are doing, are they csing a little better, moving to trade while you cs, holding onto their abilities a little longer, or using flash sooner? It doesn't make stomps any more fun, but it does make the game easier later when you get better faster.

Telephone Booth3/22/2018, 12:31:09 AM1 votes

It goes boop boop beep beep and electricity goes through circuits and creates players that then play against eachother... right guys?

But seriously... It's gonna take a bit of data for them to know your place. And the same goes for other new accounts. Until you hit level 30ish, it's gonna be rough. We all dealt with it. Some play vs ai for a while until they're mechanically solid, then go into PvP to learn the strategy and meta. Some go straight for PvP and get stomped for months until their muscle memory and game knowledge improves. It really is a clusterfuck though, from what I remember. You just gotta accept that you're gonna get stomped by low level Smurfs sometimes. Im not saying that's how it should be.. it does suck. But it's just something you gotta trudge through, or quit.

The Highest Noon3/22/2018, 1:38:57 AM1 votes

Smurfs? In Normals? Huh.

I have no idea how that works. From what I know, it's pretty randomized lol