Matchmaking, what?

Alebraxel·12/9/2016, 9:05:10 PM·1 votes·210 views

I'm a relatively new player, and I'm always matched with people about 10 levels higher than me, and kick my ass every single time. And before anyone says anything about my games the day this was posted, I've only had 2 TODAY. I've had to go bot lane solo as Ashe against 4 other champions (Guess what happened?) because the opposing team was well above and my team was at a relative skill level to me. (Complete NOOB) Whether this was purposefully put into the algorithms like some other people on here suggest, (and will suggest as replies) there should be at least a little bit of moderation/observation of player skill to create an evenly matched game. I understand this will be hard to do, but I'd prefer a game that's evenly matched to a game where you can only play against bots if you want ANY chance at winning as a new player.

3 Comments

Kei14312/9/2016, 9:25:51 PM2 votes

The system determines how good you are based on your MMR (google it, there are long descriptions of those out there).

You (and your team) will be matched with an enemy team that has around the same MMR 50% of the time.

25% you'll win no matter what you do, as your team's MMR will be higher than the opponent's.

25% you'll loose no matter what you do. Where the MMR of the opponent is higher than you.

Now keep in mind this is team MMR, so you could be smashing in lane cos you were up against the enemy's lowest MMR or vice versa. That is where you need to pick up the slack and help other people. Its a team game afterall.

Also, if you consistently win or loose those 25% games (where you are supposed to win / loose no matter what), then the system will recalibrate your MMR by either boosting it alot or tanking it.

If you are playing against better people with higher levels, it just means that you are playing well often enough to be grouped with the better people.

Brutalitops0112/9/2016, 9:23:02 PM1 votes

This already exists though. There's the ranked games, and then there's a second, separate thing called MMR. MMR stands for Matchmaking Rating, and it's basically what determines who you'll get put up against based on your skill relative to theirs. MMR exists in all queues, and is completely separate from the ranked system. Right now, everything just reset, so MMR is kinda messed up. I've seen more people in high gold or low plat in my games since the reset than anything else, and I ended silver 5 last year. This kind of thing happens every year. Except it typically happens a lot later because preseason usually lasts 3 months, not 1.