Bad Matchmaking Thread

I believe there may be an issue or inconsistency with the ranking system. In the attachment, you can see my recent matches. I have 14 wins in my last 16 games, but I have not yet ranked up from Ascendant 6 to Eternus 1. I understand that ranking up at this level should be challenging; however, my recent win rate is close to 90%.
Additionally, in most of these matches I am the top player in terms of player damage, objective damage, and net worth, which I believe should also be taken into account.
You can find more detailed statistics at the following link: https://tracklock.gg/players/352873308/matches.
I would appreciate clarification on how ranking progression works in this situation.

EDIT: According to deadlocktracker.gg, my current Elo is 2104. For comparison, the average Elo for Ascendant 6 is listed as 1855, while Eternus 5 starts at around 2080 Elo. This suggests that my current rank may not be updating correctly and that the issue could be related to rank display rather than actual progression. A similar situation occurred a few weeks ago, when ranks required an update.
This is assuming that the Elo data shown on deadlocktracker.gg is accurate.
 

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id 50758528 Worst matchmaking I have ever experienced. We were down 22% at 8 min mark. They had all guardians up after taking last walker. Even the text logs show that both teams were complaining that the game was so unbalanced
 
Played 5 matches today and every one of them had at least two hackers in them with aimbots. All headshots. Going 15+/0 - doing over 55-60k dmg under 22 minutes. Fucking nuts.
 
50762430 all time fail
how is it even giving matches with different average team ranks?
if its gonna be all three lanes losing and unable to secure first comeback urn at least let me surrender
 
50758685
I would really rather just wait longer than end up in matches with skill disparity like this.

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Our team:
Duo 1: Me and a friend playing heroes we don't normally play. We're at two ends of the bottom 2 tiers.
Duo 2: 2 Unranked Fresh installs
Duo 3: Someone fairly new and someone reasonably experienced

Rank disparity across the entire team is just across the bottom two tiers, seems kind of reasonable I think?


Enemy team:
Trio 1: 2 experienced players, 1 fresh install
Trio 2: 2 Unranked Fresh Installs, 1 Extremely experienced player, almost 5 tiers above anyone else in the server

This is not a balanced roster.
The first trio averages just above us, the second trio has someone so far above us that it doesn't even matter who he's playing with, he's going to dominate us.

And he did!


I don't think this kind of rank disparity should be possible, I would genuinely prefer to wait longer for a match than commit to 30 minutes of this.
 
50765068 2 party feeders with negative KDA only Bepop and I was actually playing the game
50762905 This Haze was literally win trading with Holliday idk how low do you have to be to win trade at lowest rank that's not the worst part enemy victor was using pain battery using ult either bug or cheating
50704296 The win trader Lash the same Haze know the game but intentionally grief to trade win games

Players with < 20k damage should be on their own game mode because they are not playing the game if their version of play is missing majority of spells, fleeing fights after telling team to play then even lowest initiate given time can get 20k+ damage but if game time is 30 mins+ then they are clearly not fit for playing the game
 
Use this thread to share matchids for games that you think the matchmaker did a bad job at. If you can explain what you felt was a problem in it that would be helpful as well.

Do not post matchids for games that were within the past 24 hours from this post. Games older than that are fine and games going forward are fine.

Thanks for the help
Can we, please, fix matchmaking? It's crazy how someone can play only 7 matches of Deadlock and be put straight into Oracle V.
 
Can we, please, fix matchmaking? It's crazy how someone can play only 7 matches of Deadlock and be put straight into Oracle V.
why is there not a cap on new players. New players should have to play like 200-300 games all together before they can play with vets so they can learn and actually enjoy the game.
 
why is there not a cap on new players. New players should have to play like 200-300 games all together before they can play with vets so they can learn and actually enjoy the game.

Because of smurf accounts. Instead of punishing smurfs, Valve prefers to let them ruin dozens of matches per account, then they make a new account and go again.
 
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