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We get a lot of questions about how we decide on your teammates and opponents in League, and we wanted to take some of the frequently asked ones and give them to the designers that work on matchmaking, champion select, position select, and all that good stuff. Why do some games of League feel imbalanced?
When you encounter imbalanced games of League, we generally chalk it down to three major culprits: In terms of design, we want League to be a game where getting a small advantage and running with it is one path to victory. Any small successes that are snowballed can determine early leads, and then sometimes the result of the game.
While we know our matchmaking systems are never going to be perfect, and sometimes you or your opponent will end up with a 20 minute win, we try everything we can to prevent imbalance before the game has even started, and consider it a huge priority to ensuring League remains competitive. This is pretty much an urban myth. We think this is the right tradeoff compared to having a volatile rank—being demoted feels rough, and reaching a tier should be a decent indication that you can play at that level.
Why do I come up against high-ranked players in unranked games? Our perspective on the queues is that ranked should continue to be where you put on your tryhard pants. In contrast, unranked queues should be a place to play and experiment in a less intense competitive setting. For example, if having a higher ranked MMR meant you would be placed higher in normals, it could put more pressure on you to have a "ranked mentality" in all queues.
Beyond this, we want to provide an outlet for experimentation and lower stakes through unranked modes. A player who tries super hard in ranked may play with their casual friends and try goofy strats in normals in a way that means they perform at a lower level. That said, we think there's room for improvement here.
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When players first start playing ranked, they have to go through a period of placement games where we try to figure out how good they are. We have to place them against players we already have a lot of information about to get the most accurate placement. Since most players are Silver and below, we tend to start looking in Silver and move them up or down based on their performance.
League of Legends is a team game and teams win or lose games together.
We want to reward good play that ultimately leads to a win, no matter how small their impact may seem. Supports sacrificing themselves to save their ADC, tanks zoning three enemies in a teamfight, or assassins diving the backline to blow up the carry are all examples of plays that may not make a great statline but help get the W.
We also want to try and give you ways to express mastery across different positions. Matchmaking can seem like a mysterious and sometimes cruel part of League of Legends , but players should hopefully have a better insight into how the system works following an entire dev post dedicated to the topic.
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The Rioter admitted that the team knows the matchmaking system will never be entirely perfect, but Riot Gortok and others went on to explain other matchmaking details while debunking some myths along the way. It can also feel like these allies appear at the least opportune times, but getting bad teammates like these at critical times is just an urban myth, for the most part.
We think this is the right tradeoff compared to having a volatile rank—being demoted feels rough, and reaching a tier should be a decent indication that you can play at that level.
This is due to MMRs between different queues being completely separate from each other, says designer Riot Socrates, which means that a high-ranked player can have a lower MMR in normal games.