What is going on with matchmaking??

[a bat]

Every single game my teammates are always terrible. Healers will see me standing in front of them and not healing me so I die, or people trying out new characters in ranked and dying constantly. Its insane that almost every game the enemy team is just generally better than my team. I thought maybe competitive would help combat the issue but it's even worse.

And before anyone says skill issue, I do fairly well in all of my matches so I feel like it's mostly my team. I'm not a pro player or anything but it's insane to me how every game it feels like a massacre.

[HughManatee]

Originally posted by hotdog:

And before anyone says skill issue, I do fairly well in all of my matches so I feel like it's mostly my team.

In team games like this, it is actually really easy to farm unimportant kills. Most of the SVPs I have seen were complaining the whole time and not actually helping the team. They got lots of kills, but they never really helped contest the objective or protect the healers.

[a bat]

Originally posted by ninjaguyDan:

Originally posted by hotdog:

And before anyone says skill issue, I do fairly well in all of my matches so I feel like it's mostly my team.

In team games like this, it is actually really easy to farm unimportant kills. Most of the SVPs I have seen were complaining the whole time and not actually helping the team. They got lots of kills, but they never really helped contest the objective or protect the healers.

True but the last matches I had, everyone was focused on killing to the point where I had to push the objective as tank. My point is that the matchmaking is atrocious even in ranked

[LaxeY]

Sadly it's still new and getting super casuals is gonna be normal for another season or so, when the hype dies and the players who really like the game are left, hopefully the people you'll get pooled with would be better and not just some trying fans

[arkibet]

I've had the opposite problem. I had someone tell me "you're spending too much time as cloak! You're a bad healer!" At the end of the game I had 47K healing, and the next healer had 12K Healing. I had a tank losing health run into a building and got annoyed that I couldn't heal without line of sight.

It's a two way game. Tanks that stand and shield I can heal all day, but sometimes people run out of your healing panicked that they're going to die. I've placed Dagger Bubbles, Jeff Bubbles, Loki Splashes, run through enemies with Adam Warlock to try and not get out ranged, spammed right clicks... and people will still say I'm the problem when the healing numbers at the end are high.

Also, peeling for your healers is hard in this game. If they've got divers (Black Panther, Magik, Psylocke) and you're getting pelted from behind, and your tank is standing on the point soaking some incidental damage and doesn't notice that your healers are fighting and running for their lives... it's just rough. I've jumped in front of groots with people all over me and they act like I'm not healing. It's like, HELP ME THERE'S THREE PEOPLE ON ME, and then the Groot will place a wall between me and them cutting off line of sight for healing.

It can be really frustrating sometimes.

[The Incredible Sniff]

I've been having the same problem and I heard some scuttlebutt that matchmaking isn't skill or rank based so much as it is designed to keep your W/L ratio as close to 50% as possible. That's why it's always a steamroll in either direction and you almost never actually get a close match, it's designed to keep you playing longer because you're more statistically likely to buy skins the more time you've put into it.

Really hope they do something with matchmaking because Ranked is borderline unplayable unless you've got friends you can coordinate with.

[ele]

When 99% of players are bad, most games are going to be like that. Welcome to gaming post-Y2K.

[IHaveNoSoul]

Originally posted by hotdog:

Every single game my teammates are always terrible. Healers will see me standing in front of them and not healing me so I die, or people trying out new characters in ranked and dying constantly. Its insane that almost every game the enemy team is just generally better than my team. I thought maybe competitive would help combat the issue but it's even worse.

And before anyone says skill issue, I do fairly well in all of my matches so I feel like it's mostly my team. I'm not a pro player or anything but it's insane to me how every game it feels like a massacre.

Yeah.. and why is my enemies always balance..2 tanks 2 healers 2 damage. While on my team is 1 tank 4 dps 1 healer. Dps can't do damage

[EmperorVolo]

Originally posted by The Incredible Sniff:

I've been having the same problem and I heard some scuttlebutt that matchmaking isn't skill or rank based so much as it is designed to keep your W/L ratio as close to 50% as possible. That's why it's always a steamroll in either direction and you almost never actually get a close match, it's designed to keep you playing longer because you're more statistically likely to buy skins the more time you've put into it.

Really hope they do something with matchmaking because Ranked is borderline unplayable unless you've got friends you can coordinate with.

Nah if that happens your probably lacking somewhere. It's actually designed to give more points for winning then losing and even has a safety gap to prevent you from losing rank due to streaks.

People are just bad.

[PandaSav]

Nah Ive seen many matches we had 2 healers and enemy team just full duelist and they obliterate us, while they do double dmg and move like flash or escape with 1 health, LMFAO!. It's typical f2p pvp matchmakes. Put all ♥♥♥♥ ping in one group! xDDD

[ClawCrabie]

You're not alone, buddy. There are more and more of us who are noticing the scrambling in matchmaking. Of course it is possible to reach certain ranks - but only with the help of hard grind.

(I farmed Brilliant 3 from December through yesterday. I played every day from morning to night. But not everyone has time for such long runs.)

I don't know what such matchmaking is done for, and I highly doubt it's for the sake of skins. Since I will not buy a damn thing when I realize that fair play is not expected.

Don't listen to the haters who call you a clown and nowskill dawg. They are either lying or have a completely different matchmaking for some reason.

This is a team game. Having 5 or even 4 spuds on a team is impossible to deal with 6 adequate players accomplishing their tasks. It's not possible. No matter how much of a cyber athlete you are.

You're not alone, buddy. And I am sorry that nowadays players like you or me or hundreds of thousands of other good players are locked in a room of some psychosis with playing along with incomprehensible personalities. I don't understand what this is all about. I am a player with a huge amount of experience, I went through CS.1.5 all Battlefields and Collofduti, Left For Dead and tons of other competitive games. Where I've always, always been in the top 10 maybe not top 3 but top 10. I know how to aim, I know what to do with objects. But with teams of vegetables it's impossible to realize a fraction of any potential.

[XalonMG]

Premades are the only way. Matchmaking seems to heavily rely on levels, which mean nothing. And ranks and stats also mean nothing because we have all had those numbers corrupted from being teamed with scumbags and selfish players.

I do not know why people play just to lose the match and ruin it for teammates. Ask the whack jobs who do it. But we need a penalty system for the players that throw it literally every other match. It's like they have a 2min attention span and after 2 mins they just fall off completely. Or they just outright refuse to play with team or play the role they selected.

The only thing that will work for solo que is for you to remember to add "don't team with" and "ignore" the players that are selfish. After a few thousand matches, you should have blocked most of them and as they are blocked you will have better matches because you won't be teamed with the scumbags you block.

Or, find friends and faction for premade teams. Good luck! I know its frustrating, especially as the one strategist that IS healing and the vanguard leading the way.