BG Matchmaking
DancingElephant
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Hi everyone, I see a lot of people complaining about that matchmaking in BG is terrible, matching them with someone with a much strong roster. (ex: you only have 1 rank 4 but you got match with someone that has multiple rank 4s).
I hate getting matched with people that have much a much strong roster also but I don't see why BG matchmaking should only match you with others who have similar rosters? Unless I am missing something, but shouldn't the BG matchmaking be purely based on your BG tier rather than your champ level? If you are Gold II, you should be able to match with anyone else that is in Gold II, whether they have 20 rank 4s or only no rank 4s. And then naturally someone with 20 rank 4s will quickly win multiple rounds and move to higher tiers and you won't be matched with them again. Unless you advance in your tiers and then you will see them again.
I feel like this is the "fair" way to do BG matchmaking. If your roster is not very strong then you will get stuck at a lower tier (unless you are really skilled) .Otherwise, if people with strong rosters always get matched with stronger people, and weaker people get matched with weaker people, then in what way does someone enjoy the benefit of having a strong roster?
I understand the frustration and I have a hard time advancing in BG as well as I don't think my roster is that strong. However, I don't necessarily think it is "unfair" when I get matched with someone with a much stronger roster. If he is still at my BG tier, either means that his skill is terrible or he will be leaving this tier really soon. Hope this make sense, let me know if anything that I simply didn't understand or missed. Thanks.
I hate getting matched with people that have much a much strong roster also but I don't see why BG matchmaking should only match you with others who have similar rosters? Unless I am missing something, but shouldn't the BG matchmaking be purely based on your BG tier rather than your champ level? If you are Gold II, you should be able to match with anyone else that is in Gold II, whether they have 20 rank 4s or only no rank 4s. And then naturally someone with 20 rank 4s will quickly win multiple rounds and move to higher tiers and you won't be matched with them again. Unless you advance in your tiers and then you will see them again.
I feel like this is the "fair" way to do BG matchmaking. If your roster is not very strong then you will get stuck at a lower tier (unless you are really skilled) .Otherwise, if people with strong rosters always get matched with stronger people, and weaker people get matched with weaker people, then in what way does someone enjoy the benefit of having a strong roster?
I understand the frustration and I have a hard time advancing in BG as well as I don't think my roster is that strong. However, I don't necessarily think it is "unfair" when I get matched with someone with a much stronger roster. If he is still at my BG tier, either means that his skill is terrible or he will be leaving this tier really soon. Hope this make sense, let me know if anything that I simply didn't understand or missed. Thanks.
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Has I posted in other thread, I got matched vs full R4 and some R3s players a few times, and my roster is 6 R3, some R2 and R1, their worst champ was my best, so as I say, this becomes a mode that rewards the one that has spent more instead of who plays better.
And not mentioning the nodes that will make this differences bigger.
Its just not funny playing vs players that will beat you just because, and not because they play better than you, we already have Input and AI issues, adding such a huge disadvantage just makes the game boring, and people are playing a lot less BG cause of this matchmaking, I dont expect to play vs similar players, but 10k difference between the champs its just too much, even in the GC, 5k? Okay i can deal with that, Ill have it harder but its still playable, but more than that is just wasting time and resources.
And as you said, everyone should be winning half, my GC history is just maybe 15% winrate, and Im not bad at the game, my winrate in Victory Track might be something like 80%, and matchmaking was already a mess there, but the difference in GC is too damn high
This is a mode where EVERYONE is competing for the exact same rewards. If you want to play for the same rewards, there should be 0 matchmaking outside of who is in your tier. This was the strongest/most skilled players are the ones that make it to the top. I have been in Gladiator Circuit and it was crazy how many unskilled and bad deck teams there were. None of them should have made it that far, the only reason they did is they faced teams of their same account prestige.
There was someone in my alliance who made it to Gladiator significantly before me, but could barely keep a 10% win percentage once they got there. I fought him 10 times and never even came close to losing one round. How is this balanced that we should be in the same tier and get the same rewards? Maybe if we only match against people in our bracket, I won’t make it to the Gladiator Circuit and I would be fine with that. Maybe I will end up higher. The point is that if this is based on skill/roster, then nobody should be afraid to be matched up against those in their tier. It is the only fair way in a mode that is stack ranking people. It is the same thing as back in the day when I could not beat Coulson's Champion Challenge (2015), I didnt sit there complaining that I couldn’t get the rewards, I built my roster and my skill and was finally able to beat Chloe’s Warriors of Awesomeness.
I don’t think this is a perfect solution either as you can have someone win multiple times with tokens and then lose a bunch using energy only to win again with tokens to manipulate the points you get, but I think it is a better solution than sandbagging or this current solution of only matching against prestige/account size.
This is seriously one of the most entitled things I've seen on forums.
Is it frustrating to lose to r4 sig 200 Domino’s, Korgs, etc absolutely.
The reason you made GC is because of the way matchmaking is now. Maybe you shouldn’t be there, the only way to be sure is to only match against people in your tier/bracket and if you are better than most of them, you move up, if you are not you dont. But roster should absolutely play a role as those that spend should have an advantage. And I am saying this as someone who barely spends (I do the monthly unit deal and ocasionally will buy the daily $4.99 deals, yes I do spend during July 4, Cyber Weekend, etc, but definitely not whale territory). For better or worse (probably worse) the game has left FTP players behind. Look at someone like Brian Grant, as he doesn’t spend, he wasn’t able to keep up with those that do and have 20+ r4 champs.
But if the matchmaking is working like this, then this is not a competitive mode, its just a whaling mode like all the others, where your skill doesnt matter that much.
But its not funny to play vs whaled players that dont even know basic counters, where I play way better but just because of the 10k difference in our champ values, he is going to win anyway, with worse skills and worse drafts, thats my problem, because I really tried to climb in GC, but I could win like 2 or 3 in a row vs such a jacked accounts, after that is like play 4, win 1.
As I already said, I wanna play vs people that are around my skill, I dont mind that much on their values, but losing because they have better champs while being less skilled is the annoying part of all of this.
And Im not really complaining, I dont care staying in Uru or Gamma or whatever, I never meant to reach Celestial, but it is just not funny to lose just because of the roster, I dont mind playing and reaching Uru I and going back to Uru II or even playing in Uru III because Im not that good to reach Uru II, but the problem is that Im not able just because of the roster, not because Im better or worse, and I dont want to play vs similar accs, I played a lot vs higher accounts, I dont mind that, but it was playable, they may have something around 5k more in each champ than mine, but I could still play it good enough, but 3 of 4 matches are with a lot more difference and Its just no playable at all.
And I repite, I'm already satisfied with what I've done because I know I played really good and thats enough for me, but I just think matchmaking needs some adjustments, not big ones, but some
I got Uru 3 with idk, 20 to 30 points maybe? Dont really remember as I dropped it like 4 days ago.
I think I could maybe reach Uru 2 or Uru 1, as Im not good enough with some of the nodes that were in the GC the last 2 weeks.
and this is my roster:
Venom is 12110 by now.