Bad Matchmaking Thread

[someotherguy]

55010716

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 (or more likely they) 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 the 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.

 

[hootnholler]

Match id 54821994

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.

 

[Ensrude]

My games have been feeling much less balanced lately.

Match ID: 55057049
+Match ID: 55079259
+Match ID: 55119811

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.

 

[fbodieslive]

55064396

"Fixed Match Making"

This is not it. I lost 4-5 in a row and had the audacity to win one and got this match next.

 

[asd87]

@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.

 

[cpfowler]

55069702



Absolutely the most miserable experience.
Almost as much fun as closing a car door on my dick.

 

[Pretty Princess Potato]

55074333
Seven had less than 100 games. Either a smurf with a really bad game back in their elo or matchmaking still being a lil finicky.

 

[mizu0428]

Match ID 55082015

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.

 

[cpfowler]

55083493

And another one...back to back...

 

[katastrophizing]

55134553
Phantom lobby that has 2 players with less than 40 games played in it one of them not even having a full page of games yet (The Billy and REM were just straight up new to the game)

 

[Klar]

55145047

 

[Domineeriv]

Match ID 55147423
The enemy ended up with almost 70k soul lead and just completely stomped us. The enemy haze is also a suspected cheater, as they admitted in Russian they know exactly where everyone is all the time and that they're using wallhacks. They shot very odd angles all the time, when they shouldn't have known people were there.

Match ID 55152770
Another extremely unbalanced and unfair match where the enemy team had a 100k (!!!!!) soul lead on us. Absolutely unbelievably lop-sided and pretty much lost at draft where they had multiple tanky burst heroes and a direct dps, while we had a mix of everything.

 

[van17ino6]

match id: 55155871

 

[Domineeriv]

Match ID 55157148
Again same suspected cheating Haze against me that I reported barely 2 matches ago. Again multiple people noticed they're cheating. Game ended with a 100k soul difference for the enemy team again, how is this fair on any level?

I had such good games the entire week and now I get put with people like this. Awful.

 

[TheMrKaramel18]

 

[noxizee]

55179744 APPRECIATED

 

[BigSadBotKiller]

I have over 300 hours in the game. I played a lot when the game was first out. I have thousands of hours in other games like deadlock. I am stuck in initiate. Every game I solo queue I am stuck in a lobby full of new players. Every game I wind up with the largest soul lead, dmg, kills, on my team, while my teammates go 0-12. Either that of the game is super one sided. I am at the point where I want to stop playing because winning against new players is no fun, and losing against new players because my lane partner was 0-7 in the first 10 mins is also not fun. winning or losing. not having fun. I shouldn't be stuck against new players with 300 hours. I feel like that is a given. Here are some examples. The insulting part is... as far as elo goes....I am initiate IV, and I have teammates that are higher elo than me (usually get put in seeker lobbies) going 0-15.

55170142
54991008
54884033
54662031
54544574

 

[nothingplease]

55190192 - Smurf Abrams running circles against entire team of beginners in Oracle V lobby.
55184603 - No idea what Graves or Ginnis did in Phantom lobby
55169447 - Smurf Haze wins 1v11

 

[TheMrKaramel18]

Before this game, i got 7 games, 6 loses and 1 win. DEAR DEVS WHEN MATCHMAKING GONNA BE NORMAL?!?!?!?!?

If i got 16 loses in row (whis is close one because i already got 8 some time earlier) - i will leave the game and never come back.

For six months now, the team has been actively inviting participants to join testing, adding new heroes, items, and making balance changes, but despite all this, nothing has been done with matchmaking.

 

[The Empyrean]

I came back into the game after not playing for a few months, with Phantom rank initially, here's a screenshot for proof. It was taken on January 28th 2026.
The rank adjustment update completely ruined my rank. For some reason it put me in Seeker, and now I'm stuck playing unwinnable games like these (see 2nd screenshot). Match ID : 55229610. This was Mina's first game by the way, and Victor has less than 10 games on his profile. Can you revert this insane "adjustment" please, there is no way I'm supposed to be playing with these players. I'm being punished for absolutely no reason for just coming back into the game despite never having a problem with matchmaking before. This update has killed my desire to play this game. It's not fun having people in your team with barely any games getting stomped (I don't blame them it's not their fault), and it's not fun stomping new players on the opposite team either.