Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?

@S8N_Spawn 

I agree with you and I think everyone in this thread against SBMM would agree with you that when you are a certain skill level, you should absolutely be matched against similarly skilled players. The whole point of our argument, however, is that we have a ranked mode where this is and should exclusively be the case. Ranked did not always exist, so initially SBMM made overall more sense since there were only public lobbies. Now, however, there is a MM option for ranked games with rewards where the competition is comparable and a MM option for casual games with no rewards. The frustration many people find is the lack of parody. Why include a ranked option at all if all of the games played are the same anyways? A BR game is designed to be random and RNG based. If you have a dedicated mode for aggressive, sweaty play, then keep the general mode actually randomized. 

An as for that ranked game, I agree it’s early, but my point was not that I was already playing with Diamonds and Preds, which I expected, but I was playing with Season 4 diamonds and Preds, meaning they’d already hit those ranks this season, but last. That’s what confused me. I knew I’d be playing with diamonds at least this early on, but I expected those diamonds to still have gold/plat ranks for season 4 since I’m still only Gold. 

I hope this makes sense. I can appreciate your point of view and I think you make some valid points, but it’s the overall setup that has a lot of people frustrated.