Fed up. I am FED UP with this ridiculous matchmaking, putting me against someone with twice my GP whose teams I can't even scratch! There should be a limit to the difference of GP you're put up against, and I'm now being bullied out of a ton of crystals because some genius doesn't bother trying to move up the ranks but has no problem beating the snot out of my defense! Yeah, I'm mad.

Yet your win rate over the last 60 rounds is above 50%.I don’t know what the “sweatiest player possible” means, but you will join a bracket with 7 players directly adjacent to you in the skill rating ladder. You can be matched against someone with all 9 GLs, but only if their skill rating is the same as your skill rating, which likely means they don’t try very hard much of the time. And no, I’m not off my rocker. I’ve just been playing the game for a very long time (more than half of your lifetime!) and there are few forum complaints that I’ve not seen hundreds of times before.

And yet you can have someone like Xaereth with his Prevailman account running half the GLs of his opponents but still winning more than 50% of the time because he understands off-meta counters. Don’t mistake roster size and GLs for game skills when those bigger accounts still have weaknesses.

OutrunWhistle wrote:So you need to have an intensely intricate knowledge of every off-meta counter? GLs are a big deciding factor in these roundsThat would probably help more than complaining on the forum

"You can be paired up with the sweatiest player possible"If they're the sweatiest player possible, they'll be moving up and playing up in GP, and not your scenario."That's not fair in the slightest"Again, if they're where they should be, it is fair. If they've fallen due to inactivity, you're right it's not fair. If you play all the time you're where you should be and playing who you should (bar those that aren't playing as mentioned). Just having a GP metric isn't the answer.I saw an example of a 9 million GP account making Kyber 1. What happens to this player if there's a GP match making metric that doesn't allow them to play vs 13/14 million accounts?There's zero issue with players who have moved up playing larger accounts or playing accounts that have fallen due to not being very good. It's a case of wanting to win more, it's not set up like that. You'll win 40-60% of all your games, apart from when you make a meaningful change to your roster. If you can't accept winning 50ish%, then you're in for a lot of pain.

Match making is a formula used to find and sort matches. We play the 7 people nearest to us in the rankings. So, there's no match making formula. Depending on the situation I agree or disagree. The system is very fair if everybody puts in the same amount of effort. GP is poor for making fair match ups. However, it's not fair to play vs somebody that only plays now and again. Players that have fallen so far that they are clearly way over-sized for the league or division do need to be dealt with separately. "If your roster is ***% over the average size of the division, you will be grouped with other over-sized rosters" would fix the issue.

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15 Replies

DarjeloSalas
Seasoned Ace
15 days ago
Good news - there is no matchmaking, so there’s nothing to fix.
prettyfly4quiguy
Rising Veteran
15 days ago
Set a better defense 🤷
OutrunWhistle
15 days ago
.....are you off your rocker? Of course there's matchmaking, otherwise I wouldn't be paired up with another player during these rounds.
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Seasoned Novice
15 days ago
It’s random based on your SR, there really isn’t any meaningful matchmaking, just players with the same score when the bracket is put together.
harvestmouse1
Seasoned Ace
15 days ago
Match making is a formula used to find and sort matches. We play the 7 people nearest to us in the rankings. So, there's no match making formula.
Depending on the situation I agree or disagree. The system is very fair if everybody puts in the same amount of effort. GP is poor for making fair match ups. However, it's not fair to play vs somebody that only plays now and again.
Players that have fallen so far that they are clearly way over-sized for the league or division do need to be dealt with separately. "If your roster is ***% over the average size of the division, you will be grouped with other over-sized rosters" would fix the issue.
OutrunWhistle
15 days ago
That's the issue. You can be paired up with the sweatiest player possible, with all the GLs vs a 4 million GP account. That's not fair in the slightest, and there should be a limit in the GP differences between opponents to still keep the challenge, but also adding a fairer component to the matchups.
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Seasoned Novice
15 days ago
And yet you can have someone like Xaereth with his Prevailman account running half the GLs of his opponents but still winning more than 50% of the time because he understands off-meta counters. Don’t mistake roster size and GLs for game skills when those bigger accounts still have weaknesses.
OutrunWhistle
15 days ago
So you need to have an intensely intricate knowledge of every off-meta counter? GLs are a big deciding factor in these rounds
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Seasoned Novice
15 days ago
No, but it helps.
At least, it helps me understand that losing to my opponents means I need to upgrade something or find a better counter to win.
chpMINIsolo
Seasoned Ace
15 days ago
OutrunWhistle wrote:
So you need to have an intensely intricate knowledge of every off-meta counter? GLs are a big deciding factor in these rounds
That would probably help more than complaining on the forum