Bad Matchmaking Thread

Today, the average rank in my recent matches dropped significantly. I played 2 games at my actual rank (66908686 archont 5vs6, 66917230 archont 5vs5) me was archont 5 at that moment , and then the matchmaking put me 5-6 ranks lower lobby for the next 2 games (66927794, 66935627) I'm archont 4 now. From what I can see, I'm not the only one having this issue

It’s really weird and unfair. You or the enemy team can easily get low-rank teammates, and to make it worse, if you don't hard carry in these matches, you drop rank super fast because the game assumes you played badly for an Emissary 5
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I'm curious to know if I can apply to be removed from the shadowpool. Worst games I've had in the long time, although given the state of matchmaking... that's probably not that long of a time.

66870445: 0/11 Calico, losing my lane and helping the enemies to snowball. Literally what can I do when the dude runs it down starting min 1?

66875886: next game, two clowns on the yellow lane just feed starting from the first minute. NOTE: THEY ARE PARTY QUEUING. `mm_prefer_solo_only` flag just stopped working after one of the updates. We tryhard but we literally can't carry two dudes relentlessly feeding.

66881132: Next game two feeding dudes are on the enemy team. SUDDENLY THEY'RE PLAYING LIKE PRO PLAYERS? Total draft failure as well, they get broken Wraith + Viscous who carry the game while I have Graves and Shiv dying thirty one time just for the love of the game. And 25 deaths total on Paige + Billy, like WHAT am I supposed to do to outcarry 56 gifted deaths? Like idk why me & lash are in this game, 2 of us literally can't carry 4 other subhumans.

then I had literally one normal game and the cycle continues

66897325: I don't know how to describe the atrocious blue lane. Wraith buys egg as a first item, feeds, stands afk hitting creeps, watches drifter dive me under walker, waits for me to die, finally ults drifter under walker, walker kills drifter, wraith picks up my souls. And this shit ends in 25 minutes because dying 21 times in 25 minutes seems to be the concept of fun for the blue duo.

66902738: yep another wraith player who keeps disconnecting and generally stands afk watching everyone trying to do their best. we lose because we're playing 5v6 most of the time, icing on the cake is endless Doorman bugs where I end up in limbo between doors, and getting hit by stuff during Mina's iframes. Which is not fun and basically kills your game on a coin toss.

66912231: I lock in and try to carry against all odds. Mo ends up getting the kills on the lane but I make them happen, going 8-2, top souls/top DMG. My Mo fucking disconnects and the game is over. Yeah at this point I just want to uninstall.

66916474: again I get my grey priority hero, whatever, I'll play anyway; then my green lane goes 0/9 and 2/10; they are either new players somehow or a bots piloted by chatgpt. I play atrociously (since it's my low prio hero) but end up with top damage and top kills anyway because everyone else plays beyond atrocious. Game drags on but finally ends.

second remotely decent game. a literal miracle.

66938568: I am once again graced with another cis party that somehow gets my high prio hero while I'm delegated to another low prio hero. His "party mate" ends up going 0/11 and then 3/15, which is very fucking fun to play with and definitely not the reason I prefer to solo queue, IF ONLY THIS FLAG WORKED. Anyway despite the best effort of the rest of 4 players we end up losing in 27 minutes.

To sum up: I beg you please fix the `mm_prefer_solo_only` because it made the games at least tiny bit better, without cis deadinsides dragging their deadweight mates into the game to ruin it together. Is 5 abysmally horrible games a must to get one decent one? Or is there a shadow pool I'm a part of?

The only way to win seems to be to stop playing at all. Which is a shame. Cool game
 
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Ivy said she installed the game YESTERDAY, we're a team of 2 Oracles and 1 Emissary 6.

Somehow the other team had "lower" overall rank than us??
 
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The most lopsided game I've had up to this point. Matches have been all over the place in terms of consistency since the new patch but this one felt hopeless from the beginning. We could not contest any objectives and the game was over in 23 minutes. No one spoke so I'm not sure if people were new or not.

*Oracle 1 lobby*
 

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Game was 28-5 in 20 minutes, absolutely rolled, laning was a nightmare, mid-game was a nightmare, ending was a nightmare, at no point did the losing team feel like they could compete with the opposition.
 
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