Bad Matchmaking Thread

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the silver claimed to be initiate, this was an archon lobby..............
whatever yall did to fix matchmaking made it worse
 
I'm having problem with the recent matchmaking patch. literal NEW players are on my team [I'm oracle almost phantom, been dealing with a straight lose-streaks since patch], and the other team are Emmisarry-above ranking players stomping my team. before the patch I'm teamed-up with the same skill-level as me, but recently It's become horrible. I know this is not normal because I've experienced this before, And I was also there when It was FIXED. my recent teammates literally have no idea what they're doing. (62139943)

Also please don't assume that all average-high players can carry games, most of my role is a tank/disruptor. I can't carry lobbies.

The Apollo typed "new..." before game started [62139943]
 
62160265 - teammates running around on the other side of the map, feeding pretty consistently
Between the snowballing being too hard and matchmaking being bad, you've got to give us some kind of announcement when the game gets playable again
 
1772080420334.jpeghad a feeding Kelvin and I always report people for feeding. Feeding is actually a cheatable offense and Needs to be reportable. The reason why I say this is because this is my first time getting a disabled reporting bad
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I also report someone for Cursing at me for staying in base to long. ps I was a Gray talent in that match I can drop both codes in this.
62162610 match For her
62147491 this one is for Gray Talon
 
View attachment 87427had a feeding Kelvin and I always report people for feeding. Feeding is actually a cheatable offense and Needs to be reportable. The reason why I say this is because this is my first time getting a disabled reporting bad
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I also report someone for Cursing at me for staying in base to long. ps I was a Gray talent in that match I can drop both codes in this.
62162610 match For her
62147491 this one is for Gray Talon
also have a com ban for the Random players feeding and And can't handle the realization of gun build are bad on spirit based heroes like Dynamo, Apollo, and rem.
 
MatchID 62167071

The Holliday had a new, incomplete Steam profile so I'm assuming they're a smurf account. Maybe one of the others was smurfing as well. They were partied with all but the Apollo and once they got a significant lead in the match they co-ordinated to keep taking midboss, continuously pick us off in and around our base and fail to push with their trooper waves, sometimes allowing us to clear them which only had the effect of extending the match time further, essentially keeping us hostage in an hour long match. Unrelated to matchmaking fairness or quality discrepancy they continued to be weird and hostile in all chat. 1-2 of our players were newer. I've reported all in-game for griefing as well but just sharing here for extra visibility.
 

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MatchID 62167071

The Holliday had a new, incomplete Steam profile so I'm assuming they're a smurf account. Maybe one of the others was smurfing as well. They were partied with all but the Apollo and once they got a significant lead in the match they co-ordinated to keep taking midboss, continuously pick us off in and around our base and fail to push with their trooper waves, sometimes allowing us to clear them which only had the effect of extending the match time further, essentially keeping us hostage in an hour long match. Unrelated to matchmaking fairness or quality discrepancy they continued to be weird and hostile in all chat. 1-2 of our players were newer. I've reported all in-game for griefing as well but just sharing here for extra visibility.
do u have a picture of the game match, that will help more
 
I am so tired of getting into games with people that just don't understand how to play the video game. The past 4 matches for me did not feel like high phantom games at all. My last game the lash left 8 minutes in after having an awful laning phase. I don't understand how I can keep getting games where it's just a complete stomp when I'm pretty far up the rank ladder. Awful matchmaking.

Match ID: 62195780
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3 frontliners and a support vs 2 snipers, 1 support, 1 frontliner. Couldn't do anything against their dives except hold under walker, the only way we got any ground was holding until overtime and getting their spawns extremely staggered
 
62185408 - Literal Eternus player soloing the lobby.
62193852 - Ascendant/Phantom versus <Archon and under

Basing this off of Statlocker which appears to be accurate for how players perform and there average lobby rank-

There needs to be a tighter MMR bracketing for which players are matchmade with eachother, or devs need to have a toggle for players who would prefer to wait longer for a match with similarly ranked players. Purely speculating, but my best guess is devs are averaging the players MMR to have the teams be "equivalent", but that is how you wind up with and Eternus with ritualist teammates vs. Oracle. This causes most games to feel like they live or die by who had the higher ranked player and if they carried due to the steep skill gap.

IMO either lock it to 1:1 where each team has the exact same ranks represented and they lane versus whomever is the same rank on the enemy team to mitigate things. Alternatively, dont allow matches with players that are greater than 6 ranks apart of whoever the "middle ranked" player is in the lobby. I Would be curious for a dev writeup on their methodology at some point.
 
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another emissary 4 lobby with new players. venator has 8 games played and drifter 14 in total
i dont expect to play with genius god gamers at this rank but stop putting me in lobbies with players who dont know shit about the game when i have hundreds of games
 
1772116699225.png62264978 Completely unplayable match. We had no tank or anyone to engage. The matchmaking lately feels like solo players against full teams.
 
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This one is a bit of an odd game and can't really tell if it's bad matchmaking or just one of those games. Deciding to mention it cause it's an Archon average match and the plays just didn't feel like what you'd expect from what should be a higher rank. From what I saw the after looking at player profiles, the losing team had more matches combined compared to mine but we still ended up winning. However at least on my end macro knowledge of the game was lacking on both sides. I'll be honest as well this wasn't my best match personal performance wise.

For example, we had 2 walkers lose over 50% of their hp due to creep wave. Team wasn't following up on it till later and seemed to pick fights rather than maintain lanes. On the flip side, enemy team also didn't choose to push nearly dead walkers and also proceeded to team fight. Also at end our team pulled out of enemy base saying mid was in 1 min...despite being on last phase of patron, only one player on enemy team being alive and death timers still long for other players. Again, on the flip side remaining enemy player (and the one that joined after them) didn't go into pit to defend and played outside allowing our Vyper and me to just finish it off.

Honestly just a weird game all around. Like....it worked out but just really strange plays and again just didn't feel like what I would expect an Archon match to be like.
 
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@Yoshi what the fuck is this ass fucking match. no way my team is fucking ascendant 2 average considering how dogshit they play. This is 15 minutes into the game and my team is so fucking shit that we're losing 4-20. How do you give these people ascendants? because 0/6 0/5 0/2 0/3. fucking feeders and ofc my team loses while the mina goes 9/0, lash 4/0. literally the whole enemy team is positive bar doorman. This type of matchmaking is why cancer exists because of how bad it is.

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3Ls back to back. I got the Yoshi and bombardiro players on my team but guess what. Still lost. this game had those players and it finished faster than the other 2 games. Thank you @Yoshi truly for being built diff for ranked. You are one of a kind special for making the matchmaking absolute dogshit. Thank you

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@Yoshi genuinely don't know how bad your matchmaking is. Another fucking loss. AMAZING APOLLO GAMEPLAY. Whenever hes my team. he does fuck all. how are these people ascendant 4 bro please explain how. They do fuck all and fucking feed like idiots in a cage. Fuck your matchmaking genuinely. fucking learn from dota please. Im gonna find one more and Im gonna post 4Ls in a row because you are fucking amazing at programming the matchmaking

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