Please fix matchmaking in Emissary and lower, game is borderline unplayable

[coledriscoll]

Matchmaking has always been bad but after this new patch, it is at an all time low. 20+ games of one sided play where I ask the lobby what rank they are and I get the most uneven lobbies. 30+, 40+, 50k+ leads on one side and you can tell the game is over at the 15 min mark but I have to play another 20-25 min just to get stomped. I was Archon 1 before this patch and now I'm Emissary 2 and I've been consistently put in lower lobbies like low Emissary, Ritualist, and even Arcanist. I have tried new champs for few games, but it even happens in my Lash games, where I have 773+ games on him. It does feel like it's trying to de-rank me for some reason, not sure if that's even a thing in the matchmaking algo. It just feels like there need to be other factors that account for mmr in this game, because whatever the algo is using, is really starting to piss off a big portion of the player base. Even streamers I watch are becoming very annoyed at the matchmaking as well. I really think the next focus should be on matchmaking, because an online competitive multiplayer is only as good as the quality of it's matches. One thing I have seen in this game that I've seen as much in other MOBAs are the extreme highs and lows of matchmaking. I've been playing this game since launch and I've been through such high win streaks and suuuuper low losing streaks and I just feel like this rollercoaster ruins the skill progression of this game. Most players are playing MOBAs to increase their skill and strategy, but when there are such peaks and canyons then it really leaves the players confused on how they improving or not. I'm currently in a losing streak so I might be in the shit right now, but it really feels like the whole game has changed and suddenly became trouble at the game after this patch. Before this patch I was Archon and loving the skill progression and then it's a demoralizing feeling to just be totally lost at how to improve and win games. Maybe this is the pitfall of having this huge crazy patches, and this game is still in pre-beta, but it does make it harder to continue playing.

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[mones]

this is a recurring problem
after every major update, new players or old players who just return for the major update show up
i call them “tourists"

i also get bored and suffer repeated losses because of this
but just wait a week the tourists leave then matchmaking becomes less bad