This game has never been more broken

At the start, I'm talking about "season 0" and season 1, the matchmaking was perfect. Everyone was still getting used to the game and it wasn't unbalanced. As the seasons went by, the "skill" gap got larger and larger. This is to be expected.

However, matchmaking is just shoving everyone into a match using a "engagement optimized matchmaking", or EOMM. This form of matchmaking aims to keep us engaged by basically rigging the game. Each loss makes you wanna "do better", and when you win, you may feel like you want to keep playing. Some players choose to stop playing after a win, so that they can end the gaming session on a high note. Yet, those who keep playing are just badly curb stomped by the matchmaking as it tries to make the player do better again.

This kind of matchmaking only annoys players and drives them away from the game.

You may also be wondering "how is it rigged?" The answer is simple.... how else are your teammates a bunch of new or no skilled players, while the enemy teams are in diamonds, masters, and pred rankings? That's right, because its rigged in an attempts to get you killed off sooner, in which you'd feel like you need to keep playing because you just can't turn off the game after that one match. As humans, we feel the need to try, try, and try again. This is what EOMM latches onto and abuses to try and keep us playing. Another result of this is that it just causes players to become more and more toxic, as the game annoys them more and more. Usually after 7 or so bad matches, I get slightly better teammates and maybe even a win.

From my observation, matchmaking operates like this:

bad teammates/high skilled enemies -> loss -> bad teammates/medium skilled enemies -> loss -> medium teammates/medium skilled enemies -> loss -> good teammates/low skilled enemies -> win -> medium teammates/medium skilled enemies -> win or lose (doesn't seem to matter at this point) -> bad teammates/high skilled enemies

Assuming matchmaking is still the same, or worse from when I had a "play 10 games as <legend>" challenge back in season 11, (in which I played duos with a friend who had the same challenge, and we both just kept skydiving off the map), you can literally test what matchmaking looks like by falling off the map at least 10 games in a row.

What you should see (assuming its not fixed), is that your teammate's levels, badges, and stats slowly rise up the more you throw away matches, while the champion team's levels, badges, and stats should also be go down to where it looks like your team would have an advantage. This is EOMM's way of trying to give you a win to make you feel like you're doing better, before cranking the difficulty back up.

This change is best shown when your team is wiped out quickly, and it doesn't seem to matter if you're solo queing, playing with friends, or what mode you're playing in as long as its not the firing range. I would say "don't go ruining matches for other players by dying right away", however chances are the match was already ruined by the EOMM, bad servers, zero audio, smurphs, and cheaters.

After me and my friend "played" our 10 matches, our 11th game was an utter joke, as everyone in the lobby played like bots or like it was their very first time in a match. No one had any kind of aim, no one had any sense of direction, or anything. We both were able to just hipfire each team we came across. This might be changed now, where its tough regardless of how many times you lose matches, but I doubt it.