Bad Matchmaking Thread

[TheBearded]

Mind checking their Steam profiles? It honestly feels like some of these teammates are actual newbies with barely 20 hours in the game. That would explain why matches feel so unbalanced
upd:I checked their Steam profiles — one has 49 matches and the other 86. So yeah, not complete newbies, but still feels rough in matchmaking.

Thanks man!
I have over 300 hours in this game and a couple of thousand in OW and MR. I recognize players who are out of their depth.

If you die 5 times in 5 minutes you're either intentionally feeding or you are so incredibly far outmatched that you shouldn't be in that game at all. Both are equally terrible for fair matchmaking, especially considering having 2 out of three lanes be equal, while one lane is just running wild with it means that you automatically lose the game, because now they're soo fed that they can more or less one shot you in a dive without counter play. They didn't just throw their lane, they threw yours too.

Atleast Lol solves that with the map being bigger and turrets actually posing a threat which punishes rotational ganks. Here it's just free if they block the turret once.

I don't mind competitive lobbies, I actually enjoy close games and good fights more than anything, but these games are just......random. I've probably have had like 30 games with players on my team who seem to lack fundamentals, while the enemy keep making the right plays.

If they're keeping this MM-system, they need to slow down the games. You can't keep games fast AND have matchmaking that doesn't match players equally.

 

[instantmessager2]

41954572 Team stomp

 

[TheBearded]

41959288

Another 60k diff game

 

[shani]

(41798851) This game the opposing team was a 6 stack (the winning team) - despite my best efforts. Rank averages don't even match up.


(41704970) Another bad game. Opposing team had a 4 stack and a duo. My team had a duo and the rest solos. Once again, performed the best in game, but not enough.

At a certain point these games are just painful, like how does this happen? I get placed into games within less than a minute during peak hours and this is the quality of the matches. If anything I would wait a minute or two longer to at least have a chance at a somewhat fair game. Solo q players like myself should not have to play against full on 6 stacks.

 

[TheBearded]

Mind checking their Steam profiles? It honestly feels like some of these teammates are actual newbies with barely 20 hours in the game. That would explain why matches feel so unbalanced
upd:I checked their Steam profiles — one has 49 matches and the other 86. So yeah, not complete newbies, but still feels rough in matchmaking.

Just checked their Statlocker ratings:


Apparently I had two complete beginners against a Archon 1, and Emissary 6 and a Ritualist 2.

Their total team rank was 145 while ours was 92. Don't think I need to wonder why we lost.

 

[Dragutin]

Alchemist vs Archon - most likely smurfs or cheats. One team was consistently forcefully disconnected and rejoined all the match, while opponents were not affected whatsoever.

Most of them have <25 matches played.

Match: 41968014

 

[lulist]

balanced?

 

[TheBearded]

And another: 41972345

They had a Phantom 3 and a Archon 3, while our highest was Ritualist 5. Somehow we won. How the match average for this is Arcanist 4 is beyond me.

 

[FuckMyLife]

42000234

This is the worst game i have ever had. Grouped with a stack of 5 all using voice mods calling ppl a nigger faggots. Congrats steam. I dont even speak into voice chat let alone text. Honestly no one wants to listen to this crap. Thank god for the mute button. But good for you guys doing nothing about this toxic community. Game is gonna self destruct before it even starts.

 

[hellboyson]

42011219 match.
i hate feeder and really wish they fix this problem
the pass three dose i hate to just wait for the winning team, who had not feeders teammate, and on my side had three to two player that are Absolutely brain dead feeders. pls devs reset all rank so we down have this problem of seeker 1 feeder in high matches

 

[hellboyson]

Just checked their Statlocker ratings:
View attachment 59463

Apparently I had two complete beginners against a Archon 1, and Emissary 6 and a Ritualist 2.

Their total team rank was 145 while ours was 92. Don't think I need to wonder why we lost.

what web set is that

 

[dusteyezz]

Since monday with my rank being high ritualist in EU I only get placed in lobbies with Oracle+ players present. This renders the game unplayable for me as it would be more beneficial for me to be afk. The only other option is an initiate/alchemist lobby where I am the highest rank, equally unfun. I wish I had the option to wait longer but get people my rank, just like extra competitive.

Matchids:
42016251
42015442
41881393
41792625
41786256

 

[stemipro]

match ID: 41957067

Haze player was a smurf, this is his statlocker: https://statlocker.gg/profile/1125896052/matches - he has 72% winrate in 7 matches total and is ranked as Oracle 3, altough we were playing in Alchemist 1.

 

[sherry.gfyy]

i'm not super sure where else to share this nor if this is particularly useful but, Deadlock is draining, i'm considered Initiate 1 and getting into games consisting of a bunch of fellow low levels, and just randomly a Ritualist, or Arcanisit. and twice having Oracle players in the same lobby. I know oce is a small region but having someone in the top 500 of the server region placed agianst people that hardly deny in lane is horrible. Even playing with friends in a three stack should excuse this matchmaking.
relevent match ids
41939372
41931630
41942872
I'm not copletely sure the formating ya'll want this in but it is the worst thing to having the fun from a game derivied from which team gets the good player and which team has people with less then 10 matches.

 

[TheBearded]

Another great one!
42033976

Wraith went 0-8-0 and blamed me for "not knowing what to do in the game"
Whatever brand of delusion he's buying I want some too. Me and Mina destroyed Calico and Drifter in lane, and somehow they are still fed when the game is over. There is no way Valve can get good statistics out of this or any form of decent player relations. Guessing the other team was a 6-stack vs randoms?

 

[TheBearded]

and another: 42037300
Once again, winning lane and having another throw it completely by feeding over and over again.
Drifter and Mina shut down in lane and end the game fed to the moon. Also, can't farm anything once Drifter gets rolling even slightly because he has built in anti-jungle in his kit.

 

[TheBearded]

and another: 42043255
30k difference in a 20 min game. Team mates constantly feeding enemy and actually giving them urns.

And another: 42045037
60 difference with a Viktor running in and feeding with 24k souls at 40 minutes

 

[joethewillis99]

41964666

crazy assortment of ranks

 

[Domineeriv]

Match ID 42044531
Another day, another game where nobody uses their mic despite me having the preference to have people use their mic, and where they kept running in 1v6 almost like throwing the game. There was a large soul and skill difference already from the start.

 

[Domineeriv]

Another one. Match ID 42047919
Nobody on the team using mics, only writes in chat to complain near the game end even if I've put the option I prefer more the games with mics and what not. Not only that, seemed like enemy Haze had a hard time while their drifter just dominated the lanes and terrorized the match. Not fun at all.

Match ID 42051187
Match was very lopsided where the other lanes kept losing hard. Only Abrams used communications, and very ironic since Haze which was from the above match was on my team - again, very frustrating when there's no way to win and nobody communicates properly.

Match ID 42054239
Felt like the Haze and Ivy on the enemy team were extremely skillful while we were struggling and only by sheer luck managed to win, as they were pushing our walkers already under 12 minutes.