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rickyressel's avatar
6 years ago

Does anyone know exactly how teammate matching works?

This question extends beyond just the skill based match making question and is more about how my teammates are chosen. 

I am a casual player. I play mostly on the weekends when my son is here and we play together. Sometimes I play during the week just for fun. I would say I’m average skill level at best. However I’m pretty high level because I’ve been playing since before season 1. I always seem to get teamed up with super low level players. I’m not complaining, quite the opposite. I think those people deserve a much better player to help carry them than I’m capable of. I don’t hate on people who are just starting out. We all did at some point. Like I said I’m higher level but I have a horrible K/D ratio and I have no badges that would suggest I’m any good (I.e. 4K or 20 kill). I’m curious why the game feels like I’m a good match up for these lower level players. Does anyone understand how the algorithm decides team building from randoms.

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  • This is a question i am curious about as well.

    I'm a Diamond players, not a carry force that reliably wins 3v1. Yet it seems the game quite often expects me to.

    Is the percentage of new joiners really that high? Or is this by design to prevent some squads from being 3 stacks too often. If I que with 2 friends we win most games.

  • Pretzelnutcake's avatar
    Pretzelnutcake
    6 years ago
    @Wingmannedbro maybe the game matches you based on the stats of your last used legend perhaps? Mine aren't anywhere near impressive but I've been one tricking Wraith to get atleast 1k kills before moving to someone else, and somehow the game thinks I'm capable of carrying two lv70 something players against a lobby full of premades with matching gamer tags and more kills on one legend than I have across my entire roster.

    But if I play someone I've barely used for a few matches there's a good chance I'll see a diamond or pred in my team instead of the usual disappointments I get. Could just be a coincidence but idk.
  • @rickyressel However it works it needs an overhaul cause I’m so sick of getting teammates that get less than 100 damage every match and apparently play with a blindfold and earplugs , when the champion squad is always a premade trio of predators with all the top kill/damage badges .

    Doesn’t make any sense to me atall and is so unenjoyable essentially playing solo every single match. I try to give them all the benefit of the doubt and ‘help’ them as I agree with you that everyone starts somewhere and some people don’t have the time to build skill etc so can’t be annoyed at them for that. But when I’m pinging all the good loot to share , warning not to engage when you ill equipped and have bad positioning , killing all the enemies for them , reviving under pressure every two seconds and they just ignore all of it and do nothing to help themselves , I just give up .

    Past 11 games this afternoon I haven’t had a single teammate get a kill lol, it’s excruciating.

    So yeah I just don’t understand it either really, it can’t be skill based if your getting level 5’s going in against level 500 predators .

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