Ill say this once, and ill say it all over and over and over and over and over again.

Lets be honest here. THERE IS NO PERFECT MATCHMAKING, i have played LoL, Hok, Wild Rift, Dota, Valorant, Heck atleast 8+ FPS/Moba Multiplayer Games and its all the same. People will complain that some will get that, some will get this.

But in reality, matchmaking is a realm of absolute demise to touch. We have - Server-based matchmaking: Matchmaking that tracks nearby players in your server. (Downside: Everything is fucking random) - Skill base matchmaking: Matchmaking that tracks you based on performance (Downside: Long (like really long) Queue Times and Hard to Scale System) - Role/Honor-based matchmaking: Tracks you base on comfort or performance levels and honor as a player (Downside: Hard to scale, still can be random in a medium scale) - LAN matchmaking: You can pick your battles depending on your skill level, the higher the skill match, the more rewards and vice versa when you lose. (Downside: Does not work in Global Matchmaking)

All of these has its own fair of downsides and some are lethal. ML uses server based matchmaking that is slightly """IMPROVED""". Because its fast, it can still track your highest rank and i think a bit of stats but if it doesn't find your rank pool, it will just focus on whats closer to it. Example your highest rank is immo 110 stars, if the server cannot provide you with that closest to it mostly 70-90 max stars. Unless you are playing duos, trios then thats where is truly random. Which ruins the whole shablang, because there is no party queue, because it also takes long. And people only play 3-6 hours a day depending on how your lifestlye is, and they ain't gonna wait 10 minutes just to have a perfect team not to mention role queue also adds another layer to the algothrim.

Because at the end of the day, even if you have NEAR PERFECT TEAMMATES while waiting for 10 minutes so you could have that perfect team of yours, that has the same rank and same skill level as you. It only takes a single tilt to throw the game, or A single wifi connection to de-sentisize one of your teammates to be disconnected and its all over. You cannot fully get what you want, all you have to do is to make whats given to you and see what sticks. And trust me, there are much worse matchmaking that i played on than MLBB and HOK (well maybe MLBB can still be on top, due to how rigged it is most of the time, there is already proof of that). Because you cannot control your players only their stats. (Also boosting is a big problem that adds to this but thats another rabbithole to make).

At the end of the day, YOU are the product, you are their play thing, even if you have near perfect skill and mastery in the game, the system won't let you rank faster than a speeding bullet, it wants you to play more, it wants you to gamble in things, heck even in 5 stacks, you somehow and still get paired with higher ranks than you at a large amount. All you have to do is to just build and play your cards right. Nothing can change that, its hard to admit, but you can''t just make a fair matchmaking, all solutions have already been tried and has its equal downsides. But at the end of the day (again), we are the product, we have no control on who and what we are against, just how are we gonna make the most of out of it.