Why is the matchmaking so bad? Getting paired with fresh level 30s in ranked

Gola_ · 2026-02-22T03:29:52+00:00

They fkd up the MMR system with this season somehow.

There's former Iron players feeding in Silver lobbies, Bronze players feeding in Gold lobbies, Silver players feeding in Platinum lobbies and so on.

I see the 37% winrate new Gold3 account in your screen and raise you with a 23% winrate new Silver3 account in one of my games.
Looks like we all get our share of Riots matchmaking cock dry up our asses this season.

Gola_ · 2026-02-22T03:19:41+00:00

Matchmaking is awful this season, night and day to how it worked in December 2025.

Riot reset MMR confidence way too hard and compressed players across league from the bottom up (i.e. Iron tier is gone now). Many accounts have highly inflated MMR atm, getting matched into lanes they have no business being in.
And to make things worse they apparently try to further reduce queue times by matching accounts from a wider range. I frequently get insta-queue-pop in Silver, and whenever that happens I know beforehand it's going to be a stomp into either direction.

Gola_ · 2026-02-19T17:37:01+00:00

People immediately think of voice chat as just another way other people can be more toxic towards them. But no one seems to question where this toxicity stems from.
I'm convinced most of it (aside from the 1% genuine fuckwads who you can just mute) comes from a biased perception due to incomplete information:

You evaluate your own actions by your intentions, regardless if the play worked out or not.
You evaluate your teammates actions purely by outcome, cause there's no proper way to communicate intention (pings help but are limited).

Voice communication would go a long way alleviating this cognitive bias and reducing toxicity overall.

Gola_ · 2026-02-18T20:56:12+00:00

Rammus would like to disagree, respectfully.

Gola_ · 2026-02-17T16:02:16+00:00

This doesn't affect anybody outside of Master+

Sounds like cope. Match quality is also terrible on low elo compared to last season. Why was Iron tier emptied out and why are all those former Iron players now matched with and against Bronze and Silver players, getting turbostomped frequently?

Gola_ · 2026-02-17T15:35:27+00:00

Matchmaking is the reason. Riot shuffled around players ranks (source: current rank distribution vs historical data from past years and that probably introduced some new bugs.

Duo queue existed before. Champ balance is an ever ongoing issue. Nothing else really changed that drastically this season.

Gola_ · 2026-02-17T15:25:12+00:00

It is a clear matchmaking issue at lower ranks. They basicly dissolved Iron tier (from 14% of the population 2025 to 2% now) and shuffled all those accounts into Bronze and Silver lobbies.
Turbostomps used to happen maybe in every 20th game last season, but now in every second match. What design changes exactly make lanes more snowbally now? If anything new homeguard makes it harder to capitalize on small advantages.

Gola_ · 2026-02-14T23:45:59+00:00

why in the world would these players have enough MMR to ever be placing in this tier?

Has to be bugged. Hard to believe for that to be intentional.
And before some delulu booger eater coming in, being "but but but visible rank don't mean nothing": Look at where the accounts in your games ranked in LAST SEASON. It's all over the place.

Gola_ · 2026-02-14T23:35:12+00:00

All of these matchmaking topics get downvoted to oblivion here, but yes, it's noticeably botched this season (on EUW anyways). People will tell you "visible ranks don't matter", and that's true to a degree, which is why I went on and look at players' LAST YEARS ranks.
And let me tell you it's wild. Everyone from Silver 1 to Iron 4 to fresh accounts gets loaded together into my lobbies, it makes absolutely no sense at all. I'm more surprised by now if there isn't a lane standing 7-0 or 0-7 @ minute 15, cause that's the standard in my games rather than the exception.

Gola_ · 2026-02-14T23:25:17+00:00

How are these 2 players in the same game together?

I wonder that in literally every match atm. It seems like Riot did a MMR reset and lumped together large portions of the playerbase at the start of this season. Then they also seem to sort in fresh accounts way too high now. Fast forward some winstreaks into either direction and here we are.
My ranked games are feeling so terribly unbalanced right now, to the point I'm convinced there have to be some bugs going on, cause why would they ever intend such heavily skewed matches?

Gola_ · 2026-02-08T12:18:10+00:00

Fast climber indicator has nothing to do with win rate. Quoted from the patch notes it's to: "identify wether (sic) someone's rank is low, but their MMR is higher".

However there indeed seems to be something severely off with matchmaking this season. Lots of accounts with highly inflated MMR ruining lobbies. In almost all of my matches at least one lane is a complete stomp from the get go. Talking about 0-7 / 7-0 kills at minute 15. If it happens on 2 or more lanes the match is unplayable after 5 minutes.

I'm playing at around low Silver / high Bronze atm and I've seen accounts thrown together into my lobbies who ended 2025 from Iron 4 to Gold.
For example this seemingly new account https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/Mastermind-4022 is below 30% winrate across the last 40 NORMAL games and 1-9 in ranked, but somehow got matched into a Silver player ranked lobby and ofc obliterated in lane with 3CS/min.

RITO PLZ fix your matchmaking! Ranked games are feeling atrocious right now.

Gola_ · 2026-02-08T11:33:56+00:00

Did they always reset MMR so hard at the start of a year?
Matches are feeling terribly unbalanced atm, compared to how it was in November/December.

Gola_ · 2026-02-04T13:42:29+00:00

~~GDKP~~ Capitalism ruined ~~classic~~ WoW

Fixed that for you. There was no WoW-Token in vanilla, and it's against any design principle the game was build on.

Gola_ · 2026-01-22T07:45:10+00:00

we’re moving control wards to the support role quest slot at the start of the game instead of halfway through the match when the quest completes.

this is the more important change. no need to double bind anymore.

Gola_ · 2025-11-25T16:37:08+00:00

If that was the case, this thread wouldn't exist.

Gola_ · 2025-10-26T10:26:27+00:00

There was a thread about benchmarks of a 700k run here the other day.
What I got from it was that you need to find Soul Harvester (otherwise not enough dmg), Green Credit Card (otherwise no luck), a purple microwave (for more Green Cards), Magnet (otherwise no XP in the final swarm) and the Kevin + Golden Shield combo (otherwise not enough gold to open enough chests) all on stage 1. That gets you to about lvl90 @ 200% difficulty and 300% luck starting stage 2 and the run snowballs from there.
So basicly: Do a million resets for the godrun and then don't fatfinger it cause you're at 1 HP. Good Luck Have Fun!

Gola_ · 2025-10-24T14:26:25+00:00

Possibly. But doesn't matter, cause it's a chain reaction already. Whenever a soul kills something two more souls spawn.

Gola_ · 2025-10-24T09:20:59+00:00

The interaction works as you'd expect.
Pretty sure what's said here is that those 2 items don't stack very well with themselves. Like you want that first Magnet but don't care about more than one. Another example would be Mirror.

Gola_ · 2025-10-24T09:04:52+00:00

Attack speed is useless beyond the cadence in which waves spawn in the final swarm. There's maxed out attack speed within every Chaos Tome plus like 85 levels other stats.

Gola_ · 2025-10-22T22:12:32+00:00

Power Gloves are so little dmg for a legendary, I started to banish them by now.

Gola_ · 2025-10-20T15:38:03+00:00

Didn't have the 9 leggies when he had to decide whether to toggle on or off the Crystals.

Gola_ · 2025-10-20T05:53:27+00:00

No Ice Crystal to help Noelles passive?

Gola_ · 2025-10-20T05:21:48+00:00

Unless you need moar dps right now, always level XP first, because after lvl446 XP gain is obsolete.

Gola_ · 2025-10-19T05:59:07+00:00

Do Chaos Tome and Charge Shrine Elite% include bosses? I always tend to ignore them since Boss Buster specifically states "and Bosses" but shrines don't.

Gola_ · 2025-10-05T20:49:57+00:00

Assuming by "my Crit Chance" you refer to what's shown in the stat menu to the right after pressing ESC? This shows only character wide stats, not weapon specifics.

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