Match making broken
What’s funny is that the problem is actually the opposite of what you claim. The current system groups people with similar rank together, so 1 team is often full of people in the top 500 and the other team is full of unranked people, which ends up being a completely unbalanced match that ends in scores like 500 vs 100.
It happens both ways. Since the matchmaker forms one full team first and then starts looking for the other team, you can easily get on the “second” team even from a very high rank if you queue at the wrong time.
It happens both ways. Since the matchmaker forms one full team first and then starts looking for the other team, you can easily get on the “second” team even from a very high rank if you queue at the wrong time.
That’s what happens most of the time.
When i don’t play at prime time, i usually end up on the “bad team” and my team gets facerolled ( it usually ends up with people on a spectrum of 1-20 rank), altough being “top” ranked.
These games usually lead to massive leaderboard rank loss ( enough to drop me to 300-400 ) and everyday i log in knowing i have to make my whole way to top 200 again, simply because i can’t always play at prime time and because i want to play ranked matches.
My experience is a good example showing why this game punishes you for playing and rewards people for not playing.