How SBMM actually works

Question

Skill based Matchmaking is not how you think it is. It's not about how good you are it's about how much zu play. Let me explain.

Let's say that you are a skilled player and after a few good games "SBMM" decides you should lose your next match. It will pair you with below average teammates also due for a loss and stronger opponents/stacks to reduce your odds of winning. It is NOT about making the game fair.

The system rigs your to make you win or loose in a peticulare pattern to keep you playing as much/long as possible. For example: if you have bad teammates and have a bad round you ceep getting bad teammates because you ceep playing. If you have a bad round but stop playing for a while then in the next round you will have better teammates so you have a better round and ceep playing.

So a decent player with 1.x K/D who ceeps playing even tho he has bad round ceeps getting bad rounds, while a trash player with a 3.x K/D who stops playing after he had a bad round will get a better match next time.

I hope now you have a better understanding why SBMM isn't working.

rxyrp · Answer

@worstSoloQever Lool, then thats everybody's problem. i play Ranked arenas, i get level 100 players against full masters stacked players. &amp; you should guess the outcome :D

ingeniekey · Answer

@FlixvaderrJust quit before the round starts if you get teammates far below your level. Don't let the devs waste your time. The rounds are simply balanced around distributing bad teammates to good ones. Its sure to make player annoyed.

I just insta-quit if my teammates are bad and instantly go down making blatant mistakes. Cant be bothered anymore. QBMM Quit Based Match Making

midnight9746 · Answer

@Flixvaderr I was honestly expecting: "How SBMM actually works - it doesn't"

worstsoloqever · Answer

@Flixvaderr i love sbmm gives me teammates below 50 level and champion squad is full 3 stack pred,masters ........ i love it I'm having fun ....

midnight9746 · Answer

@IngeniekeyI'm getting real tired of dealing with this as well, not sure if they were a cheater or a smurph, but they weren't dodging gun fire when fired at by teammates. (The long bow was another player, and my flatline was hitting that other player), just the fact that they're a level 19 in Gold rankings.

My games consist of either bad teammates vs diamonds - pred players full stacked, or bad teammates vs smurphs, with some of them using cheats. The "SBMM" isn't even skill based. From what I can tell, judging by my own expierences and seeing people's kill feed (like the one below), its quite obvious that matchmaking is set to insure a win or lose. If you notice a match gets really hard after winning the last 1-3, this isn't because matchmaking is going "oh, you're skillful, take on these enemies", because if that was the case, your teammates wouldn't be bad at the game, your team would be as much as a threat as the others. Matchmaking is set to lose, so you would wanna try and redeem yourself. After matchmaking is done dragging your face across the ground, it then starts giving you teammates who can pull their own weight, and at least for me, enemy players act like mindless firing range bots.

https://youtu.be/DyO-WL_L3K8

I'm so done with all this smurphing nonsense: