Battlegrounds Matchmaking

PureElectricc

I love battlegrounds, easily my favorite part of the game. I play so much I’m already at 440k solo event points. But matchmaking has become so ridiculously laughable that it’s hard to have fun anymore. I have a 1.4 million rating thronebreaker account, I have one rank 4 and a good amount of rank 3s. I get matched with 3.5+ million account rating paragons CONSTANTLY. I can’t outdraft them because they have counters for everyone I have, and defenders for my best attackers. I can’t outplay them because of the difference in health pools between r3s and r4s. I’ll lose 4-5 in a row to a bunch of legend accounts, and then matchmaking will take pity on me, and throw me an uncollected account whose best champ is a max sig 5* doctor doom. Surely there are accounts similar in size to mine that I should be matching with instead.

DNA3000

This seems to be a symptom of the devs making "tweaks" to the Victory track match maker, as they indicated in the last BG season update. Prior iterations of the match maker heavily weighted matches towards accounts with similar roster strength. However, this had the side effect of punishing stronger roster players and allowing lower roster players to advance faster by limiting the strength of their competition.

Until the overhauled match maker system Kabam mentioned is implemented, they've been apparently widening the matches players can get instead of matching them very narrowly to only accounts with identical roster strength. I have seen reports of players getting much more disparate matches than in previous seasons, and this is probably due to those tweaks mentioned in the season seven change log.

This is not a bug, and this is not an accident. This is due to the fact that BG is in large part a competition, and isolating competitors from each other to give some players easier competition punishes those that have to face the stronger competitors. This means lower strength roster accounts will be at a disadvantage compared to players with stronger rosters, at least in the earlier weeks of a BG season. As those stronger players win and advance, they will leave the earlier Victory track levels and lower the competition for whomever remains.

If this sounds unfair, it was what was happening to the stronger roster players in prior seasons. They would only be facing the strongest rosters in their track and losing, until those players won enough to advance out of the track and no longer be around to face. Lower strength roster players didn't need to worry about this, because they would never face those players.

In the long run, the staggered start system will place most stronger roster players in completely different tracks at the start of the season, and you will not have to initially face them. But eventually, if you expect to reach high tiers of the Victory track or the Gladiator track, you will have to face them.