brontosaurus_rex
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Something feels very very wrong with my matchmaking lately. I am aware that I'm not good at this game, but the mm should be placing me against players who are similarly skilled. Instead, I am constantly being put into games where my whole team is clearly worse than their whole team. For several dozen games now.
It would be one thing if I were obviously tanking every game, but my performance is consistently very average on my team. Maybe 2-3 games where I'm clearly the worst player. My team is simply almost always worse than the other team overall. I have been tracking stats because of how persistent this has felt, and the results are difficult to read as bad luck:
* At the 20 minute mark, my team is down an average of 13k souls and 10 deaths over the last 20 games.
* In the last 25 games, my team has been up in both souls and kills exactly *one time* at 20 minutes.
* Two other games where we were up in either kills or souls but not both.
* That makes 22 out of 25 games where my team was down in *both* categories at 20 minutes. And again, we're not down by a sliver, we're down by an average of 13k souls and 10 deaths. At 20 minutes! 88% of games in a meaningfully large sample that were not lost on a late team fight; they showed a clear mismatch from the very start.
I love this game but it's demoralizing to be in this situation over and over and over again. If I need to rank down, that should happen and my win rate should remain close to 50%. Instead, I'm ranking down and the competition does not seem to change. Every game is me and 5 players who are about as good as me (or 2-3 who are similar and 2-3 who go 1-15) against a team of 6 who are all clearly better than us. The stats seem to confirm this pretty clearly, at least as much as they can in a complicated game like this.
What is happening?
It would be one thing if I were obviously tanking every game, but my performance is consistently very average on my team. Maybe 2-3 games where I'm clearly the worst player. My team is simply almost always worse than the other team overall. I have been tracking stats because of how persistent this has felt, and the results are difficult to read as bad luck:
* At the 20 minute mark, my team is down an average of 13k souls and 10 deaths over the last 20 games.
* In the last 25 games, my team has been up in both souls and kills exactly *one time* at 20 minutes.
* Two other games where we were up in either kills or souls but not both.
* That makes 22 out of 25 games where my team was down in *both* categories at 20 minutes. And again, we're not down by a sliver, we're down by an average of 13k souls and 10 deaths. At 20 minutes! 88% of games in a meaningfully large sample that were not lost on a late team fight; they showed a clear mismatch from the very start.
I love this game but it's demoralizing to be in this situation over and over and over again. If I need to rank down, that should happen and my win rate should remain close to 50%. Instead, I'm ranking down and the competition does not seem to change. Every game is me and 5 players who are about as good as me (or 2-3 who are similar and 2-3 who go 1-15) against a team of 6 who are all clearly better than us. The stats seem to confirm this pretty clearly, at least as much as they can in a complicated game like this.
What is happening?
