I’m currently in the last tier of Sapphire. Getting here was an atrocious grind. I had to endure through never ending losing streaks and raged quit a few times. In all fairness, if the matchmaking was designed to let the good players advance quickly than the bads, I’m okay with that. In the end, I wouldn’t want some baddie that had a streak of lucky queues to be in the same division as I am.
My issue is that I often get placed in a team that’s full of players who are absolutely clueless about the game. If I lose a match, I want it to be fair and square. If I actually get paired with players of my caliber and still lose, I can fully accept that loss no matter how lop sided the match is. But I’m often losing simply because I’m paired with others that can’t play map politics, always goes after beasts, don’t res/stomp, or goes far when there’s no need to.
While I recognize that there will never be a perfect matchmaking system, something’s got to change in the current algorithm so that we actually get placed in a team of similar caliber. It is so frustrating to lose because of bad placement.
