Does QuickPlay involve skill/experience based matchmaking?

[MeowMix CatFood]

I'm new to this game and, so far, have found quickplay to be very casual/easy (no, I'm not talking about the bots in the first 5 matches). The biggest struggle is the teammates you're given. Am I being matched with other new people or is quickplay just a pub stomp and should I consider going to ranked once I learn more about the game?

[Commanders]

Welcome to bugladin ....sometime you get streak newbie team and keep losing.Sometime people always dc and let the bot play the whole game>The most i hate thing<

[Commanders]

Learn the game before going ranked.Because they very toxic aiming to win.While casual most of them play for fun.If that guy keep barking i guess he,s the noob there.

[MeowMix CatFood]

Originally posted by Commanders:

Learn the game before going ranked.Because they very toxic aiming to win.While casual most of them play for fun.If that guy keep barking i guess he,s the noob there.

I'm already seeing the toxicity in quickplay. As a noob Strix I was sniping a player who was repeatedly flanking the same route. At the end of the match, he was ranting about my "wall hacks". :D
Thought that was funny because he was really predictable.

If quickplay is generally this casual I'll dedicate myself to a learning several champs and working my way toward ranked. I like chill games but I want to have something greater to work toward.

[LootBox]

Originally posted by MeowMix CatFood:

Originally posted by Commanders:

Learn the game before going ranked.Because they very toxic aiming to win.While casual most of them play for fun.If that guy keep barking i guess he,s the noob there.

I'm already seeing the toxicity in quickplay. As a noob Strix I was sniping a player who was repeatedly flanking the same route. At the end of the match, he was ranting about my "wall hacks". :D
Thought that was funny because he was really predictable.

If quickplay is generally this casual I'll dedicate myself to a learning several champs and working my way toward ranked. I like chill games but I want to have something greater to work toward.

Had a similar experience playing Bomb King recently. A team of really predictable players kept running into my time bomb, get shredded by my team then I slap them in the head with a sticky bomb. Most fun right click action I've had in a long time. By the end of the game, the enemy team really didn't like me, to say the least.

[vid23]

in theory, yes, it does, in reality, its so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up it just gives you whoever it finds first
you could be playing this game for 3 year and the game would give you teammates who just started playing yesterday

[Vassago Rain]

Until level 30, you play against whoever's available. Once you hit the magic limit, which doesn't take long, you'll be sorted into the real matchmaking pool.

[Rejak]

Originally posted by Vassago Rain:

Until level 30, you play against whoever's available. Once you hit the magic limit, which doesn't take long, you'll be sorted into the real matchmaking pool.

That's actually about the opposite of my experience. I was up against other noobs for the most part until I hit about that level (I didn't realize there were account level checks so I wasn't paying attention). Then all of a sudden my two weeks playing self was mixed in with pro Paladins players. That's why I think I was tricked into spending money on this game before I knew what the devs REALLY had on offer.

[Vassago Rain]

Originally posted by Rejak:

Originally posted by Vassago Rain:

Until level 30, you play against whoever's available. Once you hit the magic limit, which doesn't take long, you'll be sorted into the real matchmaking pool.

That's actually about the opposite of my experience. I was up against other noobs for the most part until I hit about that level (I didn't realize there were account level checks so I wasn't paying attention). Then all of a sudden my two weeks playing self was mixed in with pro Paladins players. That's why I think I was tricked into spending money on this game before I knew what the devs REALLY had on offer.

They're not pro players. You're just not half as good as you think you are.

[MeowMix CatFood]

Originally posted by Rejak:

Originally posted by Vassago Rain:

Until level 30, you play against whoever's available. Once you hit the magic limit, which doesn't take long, you'll be sorted into the real matchmaking pool.

That's actually about the opposite of my experience. I was up against other noobs for the most part until I hit about that level (I didn't realize there were account level checks so I wasn't paying attention). Then all of a sudden my two weeks playing self was mixed in with pro Paladins players. That's why I think I was tricked into spending money on this game before I knew what the devs REALLY had on offer.

In that case, is it easier to play Ranked, so that you're matched appropriately? Or, is the population in a state where there aren't enough players for balanced Ranked matches?

[Rejak]

Originally posted by Vassago Rain:

Originally posted by Rejak:

That's actually about the opposite of my experience. I was up against other noobs for the most part until I hit about that level (I didn't realize there were account level checks so I wasn't paying attention). Then all of a sudden my two weeks playing self was mixed in with pro Paladins players. That's why I think I was tricked into spending money on this game before I knew what the devs REALLY had on offer.

They're not pro players. You're just not half as good as you think you are.

I don't think I'm good. I think I'm a new player. Your reading comprehension isn't half as good as you think it is. And if somebody has been playing Paladins like it is a full time job for years, they are a pro player, whether they make a living at it or not.

[Vassago Rain]

Originally posted by MeowMix CatFood:

Originally posted by Rejak:

That's actually about the opposite of my experience. I was up against other noobs for the most part until I hit about that level (I didn't realize there were account level checks so I wasn't paying attention). Then all of a sudden my two weeks playing self was mixed in with pro Paladins players. That's why I think I was tricked into spending money on this game before I knew what the devs REALLY had on offer.

In that case, is it easier to play Ranked, so that you're matched appropriately? Or, is the population in a state where there aren't enough players for balanced Ranked matches?

He's been complaining about pro players and how awful MM is, yet he's only now gotten out of the ghetto. It's a classic example of someone who thinks they're badass and all-knowing, but they're not. If he spent 10% the amount of time playing as he does complaining, he'd find that all the 'pros' aren't actually pros at all.

Since he's got a private profile, and has NEVER ONCE provided any kind of proof for his allegedly horrible experiences, I'm just gonna dismiss him as another typical low effort whiner.

[Rejak]

Originally posted by MeowMix CatFood:

Originally posted by Rejak:

That's actually about the opposite of my experience. I was up against other noobs for the most part until I hit about that level (I didn't realize there were account level checks so I wasn't paying attention). Then all of a sudden my two weeks playing self was mixed in with pro Paladins players. That's why I think I was tricked into spending money on this game before I knew what the devs REALLY had on offer.

In that case, is it easier to play Ranked, so that you're matched appropriately? Or, is the population in a state where there aren't enough players for balanced Ranked matches?

That's what I'm hoping. My one and only placement match, somebody on the other team had 35 kills. The best player on my team had 4, and most of us had 0 or 1. Total blowout, due to that one player. The rest of his/her team did only slightly better than the people on my team, and that's probably only because they weren't constantly respawning. I was hoping to wait for a friend to get the 12(?) champions required to start ranked so we could do it together, but I kinda want to see if I'm ranked low (and I expect I will be) if my ranked matches are more fair than the quick play matches have been. I noticed when I was trying to do placement, the wait time was REALLY long, though. I hope that's not normal.

[Vassago Rain]

Originally posted by Rejak:

Originally posted by Vassago Rain:

They're not pro players. You're just not half as good as you think you are.

I don't think I'm good. I think I'm a new player. Your reading comprehension isn't half as good as you think it is. And if somebody has been playing Paladins like it is a full time job for years, they are a pro player, whether they make a living at it or not.

There's 0% chance you'll get matched with anyone who's anywhere near pro status if you're a new player. You're not even gonna get matched against bad players. If I went to your guru, I bet I'd see a whole lot of SR 1300 characters, and your match history is full of you repeating the same mistakes over and over, not buying items properly, not having loadouts, and probably outright throwing whenever matches didn't go your way.

Play something that teaches you the fundamentals of the game. If you have an FPS background, get Strix, Tyra, Vivian, or Viktor. You can tell by their gear and abilities what genre/series/era they're from. From there, expand. Play onslaught until you figure out the game's pacing and cooldowns. Don't jump into ranked or siege right away. Most importantly of all, stop blaming your failures on everybody that's not you.

You're new to the game. Why are you expecting to be the king of the hill right away, anyway? You disregard any advice you're given, and go back to blaming muh pros, muh MM, muh anything. Grow up.

[Rejak]

Originally posted by Vassago Rain:

Originally posted by MeowMix CatFood:

In that case, is it easier to play Ranked, so that you're matched appropriately? Or, is the population in a state where there aren't enough players for balanced Ranked matches?

He's been complaining about pro players and how awful MM is, yet he's only now gotten out of the ghetto. It's a classic example of someone who thinks they're badass and all-knowing, but they're not. If he spent 10% the amount of time playing as he does complaining, he'd find that all the 'pros' aren't actually pros at all.

Since he's got a private profile, and has NEVER ONCE provided any kind of proof for his allegedly horrible experiences, I'm just gonna dismiss him as another typical low effort whiner.

Again with the reading comprehension problems. I've been complaining about the matchmaking since I got out of the ghetto. That's when I started complaining. You really ought to work on understanding what other people are saying. But then again, lots of autistic people get hardcore about gaming so maybe you ought to keep doing what you are doing. Seems to be working for you.

[Vassago Rain]

Originally posted by Rejak:

Originally posted by Vassago Rain:

He's been complaining about pro players and how awful MM is, yet he's only now gotten out of the ghetto. It's a classic example of someone who thinks they're badass and all-knowing, but they're not. If he spent 10% the amount of time playing as he does complaining, he'd find that all the 'pros' aren't actually pros at all.

Since he's got a private profile, and has NEVER ONCE provided any kind of proof for his allegedly horrible experiences, I'm just gonna dismiss him as another typical low effort whiner.

Again with the reading comprehension problems. I've been complaining about the matchmaking since I got out of the ghetto. That's when I started complaining. You really ought to work on understanding what other people are saying. But then again, lots of autistic people get hardcore about gaming so maybe you ought to keep doing what you are doing. Seems to be working for you.

I don't spend time conversing with people who are denser than iridium. My posts in this thread are the last you'll get from you. You take that advice, or you don't.

Not my problem, and no one's loss, except yours.