Bad Matchmaking Thread

adamski500 said:
I completed my ranked games the other day and it gave me the rank of Oracle III, which feels far too high and it really does not feel like I pull equal weight with my team. I am always bottom of the pile on the team I am on and feel bad for the team I get, as I always lag behind considerably on all stats, aside from assists, on occasion.

25604461 is one of the first games (non-ranked) I have played since getting Oracle III. This casual game I solo queued without friends to see how I'd get on. It remains very apparent that the match making system is broken and the weighting in the background for MMR is skewed. I am being repeatedly placed in games / matches with teams that are way out of my league. In the case of the above game, I was viscous, and bottom of the lobby along with Bebop on the opposing team. It was not fun to play, outside of a bit of early laning luck with Mirage, who was out performing me.

I appreciate that you wouldn't want to share the exact formulas for MMR calculation etc, but could we have some sort of feedback as to how MMR weighting and match making is being addressed? The fun factor of this game is starting to wear thin with how unpredictable it is. It feels as if a balanced game where contribution to the team feels equal with team mates and which isn't a total stomp in either direction is somewhat a rarity.
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Just further to this earlier post, another 2 unranked games back to back.

25611337 - It was very one-sided and felt like our team was completely dominating. (They had a total of 17 kills at the end game, our team had 38). Did not feel fair on the enemy team at all. Whilst I certainly wasn't a main carry on our team, it even felt uneven to play as we were just winning every team fight and every push.

Immediately after the above game:

25616132 - Opposite way entirely. Our team put up a really good fight against the enemy team, but what was very apparent was that I am again in a lobby I have no place being in. Completely crushed in the laning phase by Greytalon and felt totally unable to assist the team. Got outclassed in laning by orders of magnitude and had very low economic power given how well Greytalon played with aggression and denies. I didn't feel like I was on equal footing with anyone on the enemy team, and whilst the game was closer than it should have been because of my team mates tenacity, it was overall another lopsided match where the enemy team crushed us by a considerable margin. Was evident I am not meant to be at this level of play, and felt like I had let the team down by being dead weight, comparative to them. (Yamato also seemed to be a lower rank player?)

At this point the matchmaking system being so unpredictable and poor at making even footed lobbies means that really there is no opportunity to provide feedback on anything else, because the burning issue that distracts from everything else is just how badly balanced the lobbies are.
 
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I've played about 170+ hours in this game but why do I always get teammates who look like they just played? I almost always get haze/wraith who look like they just played, but when haze/wraith are on the enemy team, they always dominate.
 
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I was having fun with ranked matches until yesterday, when the second ranking happened. I went from Initiate 3 to Initiate 4, but the spike in difficulty is insane. I've played 3 ranked matches today and all of them featured me barely getting any kills and constantly dying. This doesn't feel right. Those Initiate 3 enemies aren't playing like I did when I was Initiate 3. They are a lot better.
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25638840 - Enemy team ahead 60k souls, was pretty clear already early on that it was a loss. Enemy team had way more kills than us, very lopsided.
25628926 - Same as above, but with 40k souls ahead, it was pretty clear early on who would win.
 
25640826 - enemy completely outclassed our side. most of our heroes had no clue what to play or do. i try to make plays but everyone already back inside.

Uninstalled this experiment of a game. bye @Yoshi
edit: almost every match has this issue. Valve MM has always been like this.
 
25647423 - completely wiped by the enemy team's Talon, Vindicta, and McGinnis. The soul lead was a 46K DIFFERENCE mind you.

Their Vindicta, McGinnis, and Talon didn't die once, our Yamato barely farmed and went to start fights constantly, our Infernus wasn't good either, I was just playing with noobs against a 1.7k+ ELO team, and I don't understand HOW we got matched with this.
 
match 25656387

Absolutely ridiculous match quality. enemy team had 60k soul lead. Why in the name of god was this a match I got?
 
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Team just turbo fed, didnt play together, not following plan despite saying plan
Gave me brain damage and I'm playing a new character
 
Not a single game but a general observation, created an account just for this:

After a fun start to this game, the last 10+ matches have all been hellish. Apparently and for some reason, the game is compensating my losses not with weaker enemies, but better allies. What that means is that for like two weeks now, I either lose or get carried.

I've lost every lane I've been in for these games. I get matched against people who snipe souls at spawn and I have slow reflexes. I spend more time running from enemies than fighting. I have been dead last in souls for the entire aforementioned games, weeks on end.

I really wanted to like this game, but if this keeps going I will probably have to go back to something else. The worst part is that half of these frustrating, unfun games where I get stomped in lane and farmed in lategame while my team carries me are still counted as wins, so there's no escaping that ELO hell for me.

The latest of these was 25677244, but like I said, the problem is that it's *all* of them.
 
Ranked: 25691169 - Lost at 17min - I've never gone 0-9 by 15 mins but I constantly get teammates that do.

This weeks ranked has been horrible for me. MMR hell in a game without solo hard carries [unless you're a haze spammer] is going to be impossible to get out of. Constantly in games where people just want to fight and have 0 lane management or I'm the only communicator calling out the basics.. I'm no Eternus.. and I get that.. but damn man.
 
Not a specific match but a distinct trend over roughly the past four days.

I only play with a single person, and every game I've played has been with them and vice versa. We had around a 58% winrate in normals, nothing crazy. We ended up being a party with a wide skill gap. Nearly every single game is absolutely miserable for the past four days. It always feels like three party members are feeding their brains out on each team, and there's way more six stacks now. I know this because they'll let you know.

It's reaching a point where I'll likely stop playing for now. My winrate has been around 30% the past few days, and while I don't care about winning or losing, the matches themselves are just agonizing.
 
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