Bad Matchmaking Thread

1770158478577.jpeg70 percent of my matches are like this, how is that balanced? I'm really trying to get out of the archon but it seems impossible.

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Match ID: 54927045

Encountered a cheating Vindicta for the first time (or that I know of). They could see through Drifters ult, always scanning through walls, aim snapping constantly to creeps, heroes, objectives. According to Statlocker 1 game played prior.
Even made a little montage while skimming through the replay :)
 
Match ID: 54927045

Encountered a cheating Vindicta for the first time (or that I know of). They could see through Drifters ult, always scanning through walls, aim snapping constantly to creeps, heroes, objectives. According to Statlocker 1 game played prior.
Even made a little montage while skimming through the replay :)
"I have over 8,000 hours and I ever seen a cheat once. They are just better than you. Cope more gawh!" - That is about the only response you will get from the Deadlock community 9.9/10 times. No one seems to believe that people are cheating.
 
54992402 - Holliday and Silver fed lane so Bebop and Drifter killed everyone. Team gave up after Holliday said in voice he didn't care and kept feeding. Phantom in Archon yet again.

54969109 - Team could barely scrape together a single kill. Calico fed lane and started yelling in Russian in vc.

55001729 - Phantom I getting placed into Archon III lobby. It's hell trying to carry these bots doing nothing until they lose while they don't understand why they are losing by being perma stuck in jungle for 30min.

55014331 - Phantom in another Archon lobby with a smurf/cheater Wraith that solo carried entire game.
 
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Anecdotally, it feels like since the small matchmaking update my rank of Archon is suddenly full of people playing like they're at the International. Sweatiest matches of my life, everyone playing hyperconservative footsies for almost an hour until they can force two coinflip teamfigthts and immediately end the game. Less of a video game and more of a macroeconomics course, I definitely don't belong in this rank.

My teammates were confused as to why they were playing with me too, both people way better who can't understand why this dummy is trying to force fights 20k soulds behind and some poor ritualist stuck two entire brackets above his level, still trying to grasp basic gameplay interactions.

Please volvo, let me back into the fun ranks, I'm scared

EDIT: Another guy I was talking to said he peaked phantom five, and the Archon lobbies he's been in playing with his initiate friend have been several times more serious than his natural Phantom games. Something is definitely up.
 
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Matchmaking (solo queue) feels mostly the same and occasionally tanks to something really bad like this. Zero towers taken I think and partially the random hero rosters making it very difficult for one team to catch up when Pocket and Rem got going.
 
My games have been feeling much less balanced lately.

Match ID: 55057049
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Another 80k souls difference. Lane-mate Silver didn't Ult once the whole match and went 0-8.
My lane-mate is almost always the worst overall player in the lobby, and feels leagues below my rank.
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@Yoshi I don't know what you guys did for matchmaking but this is the worse of both evils. Please roll back this stupid change I'm tired of versing a 5 stack that stomps when I'm solo queueing. Thank you if you guys actually do read these and do anything about it.
 
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It feels like I'd actually get better matches if matchmaking wasn't doing it's job. Nothing has been fixed, if anything it's gotten worse.
 

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