Is the matchmaker getting worse?

[morganmccusker2003]

Not sure if this is a bug or not, so I'm posting it here.

I know the matchmaker has never been amazing, but it seems like it's gotten way worse since the last update, where they combined the ranked and unraked queue. I put in screenshots of my last 3 games, where most, if not all of my team goes insanely negative, and it doesn't even show the full picture. In a lot of these games, every other lane is losing guardian insanely early with my teammates being like 0/4 by the end of laning phase, besides me. Of course, then I get rotated on by the rest of the team and my lane gets stomped. Point is, recently I'm getting too many teammates who are playing like it's their first game.

And I've always had games where I've had a really bad teammate who feeds hard, or just a really bad game where my whole team sucks, but those were kinda rare, and I can deal with one terrible teammate, if the rest of my team is even sort of competent. Now, though, it's literally been my last 3 games, with other matches feeling okay. I get one or two matches with decent teammates, but then anywhere from 1-3 matches where I get teammates who play like they've been lobotomized.

I'm Emissary II (I think, idk it changed from Ritualist IV after the update), which isn't insanely high, but some of my teammates have no sense of macro or micro and just turbo feed all game. Maybe it's because they combined ranked and casuals, which I always thought was a bad change, and I hope it gets reverted soon, while keeping the ability to queue in a stack of at least 2 for ranked. But this feels so weird, like the matchmaker is just completely broken, and pairing me with obscurus players.

I know, that for a lot of these games, I could just be playing better and maybe mitigating the damage, but even if I was playing like an Eternus player, it still wouldn't be fun to have almost the rest of my team playing like they don't even know what a MOBA is. I'm down to try and get good enough to 1v11, but this is getting a little ridiculous.

Has anyone else had a similar experience? Like getting way worse teammates after the update? Please let me know on this thread, or if you thing it's just a skill issue, let me know that, too. Really feels like I'm losing it over here.

 

[williamgalantino]

Not sure if this is a bug or not, so I'm posting it here.

I know the matchmaker has never been amazing, but it seems like it's gotten way worse since the last update, where they combined the ranked and unraked queue. I put in screenshots of my last 3 games, where most, if not all of my team goes insanely negative, and it doesn't even show the full picture. In a lot of these games, every other lane is losing guardian insanely early with my teammates being like 0/4 by the end of laning phase, besides me. Of course, then I get rotated on by the rest of the team and my lane gets stomped. Point is, recently I'm getting too many teammates who are playing like it's their first game.

And I've always had games where I've had a really bad teammate who feeds hard, or just a really bad game where my whole team sucks, but those were kinda rare, and I can deal with one terrible teammate, if the rest of my team is even sort of competent. Now, though, it's literally been my last 3 games, with other matches feeling okay. I get one or two matches with decent teammates, but then anywhere from 1-3 matches where I get teammates who play like they've been lobotomized.

I'm Emissary II (I think, idk it changed from Ritualist IV after the update), which isn't insanely high, but some of my teammates have no sense of macro or micro and just turbo feed all game. Maybe it's because they combined ranked and casuals, which I always thought was a bad change, and I hope it gets reverted soon, while keeping the ability to queue in a stack of at least 2 for ranked. But this feels so weird, like the matchmaker is just completely broken, and pairing me with obscurus players.

I know, that for a lot of these games, I could just be playing better and maybe mitigating the damage, but even if I was playing like an Eternus player, it still wouldn't be fun to have almost the rest of my team playing like they don't even know what a MOBA is. I'm down to try and get good enough to 1v11, but this is getting a little ridiculous.

Has anyone else had a similar experience? Like getting way worse teammates after the update? Please let me know on this thread, or if you thing it's just a skill issue, let me know that, too. Really feels like I'm losing it over here.
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Yep - there are lots of threads like this at this point. Feels like it is worst case scenario at mid-tier rank like this (which makes sense if they targeting average MMR for 12 players)

 

[desk.tight.pain]

Game is completely unplayable as a solo player at this point. Constant matches against groups and absurd one sided stomps.

 

[kero2ene]

Game is completely unplayable as a solo player at this point. Constant matches against groups and absurd one sided stomps.

Not defending the recent changes, but you can toggle solo only queue... At least then you're betting on the enemy team not having comms ever like our teams do

 

[MegaZap]

Good to see that this is not only a "thing that exists in my head" and thats not because "I'm only bad and need to learn the game" how one teammate stated to me when I was playing on SA server Emissary II.

Most players dies every desnecessary teamfights that they start or just only push side lades all games because doesn't believe in random's abilities. Also when they do this, they start to scream and complain in the mic, saying I'm the tank or support (roles that even doesn't exist officially in the game right now) and should help them fighting clearly bad calls from them.
By consequence of this problems, matches tend to have longer durations (all matches are more than 35min long), and this get even worse when you're playing with heroes that seems like non carry roles in other MOBAs game, like Mo + Krill and Bebop.

Thinking about to quit the game whit this reasons in mind

 

[morganmccusker2003]

Good to see that this is not only a "thing that exists in my head" and thats not because "I'm only bad and need to learn the game" how one teammate stated to me when I was playing on SA server Emissary II.

Most players dies every desnecessary teamfights that they start or just only push side lades all games because doesn't believe in random's abilities. Also when they do this, they start to scream and complain in the mic, saying I'm the tank or support (roles that even doesn't exist officially in the game right now) and should help them fighting clearly bad calls from them.
By consequence of this problems, matches tend to have longer durations (all matches are more than 35min long), and this get even worse when you're playing with heroes that seems like non carry roles in other MOBAs game, like Mo + Krill and Bebop.

Thinking about to quit the game whit this reasons in mind

Thankfully, I haven't gotten terrible teammates who also complain that we're losing, because that would actually drive me insane.

But it is really bad. It's like they're bots. It genuinely feels like it's their first game of Deadlock, and other people are saying the matchmaker is broken, so I'm assuming it's an actual problem with the game.

You should start asking what everyone's rank is in your games. That's what I've been doing and I've been getting some interesting answers.