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Team Builder's 'Matchmaking Adjustment' is a downright lie.

BettyWhiteLifts·11/15/2014, 12:45:45 PM·4 votes·1,432 views

I really enjoyed League of Legends, up until I started to try to learn a role other than support, which I've become quite good at, but bored with. So I say to myself, "Why not learn how to top! That seems like fun, and in Team Builder, there is an adjustment for new lanes and new roles! Awesome!" Now, when I say I've become good at something, I'm in Bronze IV, so really I'm not very good at anything at all, but in my own little corner of ELO Hell, I'd like to think I'm pretty okay.

It is my opinion that one shouldn't enter anything other than a bot game until you've learned the basics of your intended to play champion. In my case, I've been trying to Fiora, and Ryze. People say that these are easy champions, but I just don't see it. I figured the matchmaking system would help players like me (read terrible) by not putting us against people way better than us. This is incorrect, and a lie. There is no matchmaking adjustment. I have yet to win a game top lane, and my last 5 matches, I've gone against people in various ranks of Silver players, and a Bronze 1. This doesn't seem quite fair, and yes, I am whining, but the 0/9/0 game I just had leaves me little room. I've never been shut down so hard that I thought I should just uninstall the game, until my last match. I got fucking crushed, and it did not feel good.

I'm sure I'm doing things wrong, I have to be, but I feel like I'm having to play against people who are excessively better than I am, and I thought that Team Builder was supposed to help prevent that from happening. Is anyone else having this problem, or feel this way about Team Builder and the 'matchmaking adjustment' lie?

3 Comments

Zen Fury11/15/2014, 2:56:51 PM1 votes

Considering your existing rank and that you're fairly new to the position and champions, I'd expect you to probably lose most if not all of your first 10 games.

That's not to be mean. Team builder seems to start you off against silver-equivalent players and adjusts from there (your existing MMR from elsewhere doesn't seem to factor in). If your best position is support and you're bronze IV, it's an unreasonable expectation of yourself to win against silver tops when you're just getting your feet wet with the champs and position. Eventually you'll be matched against teams at your skill level.