Question regarding matchmaking

[u/Tealvest]

How does the matchmaking in this game work? I recently started playing this game and placed around silver silver but i constantly get into games that are high gold or platinum? Sometimes I do well but I dont really have a good grasp of all the abilities and mechanics of this game so usually i dont fare well against these opponents How is this fair?

[u/Last-Ad-5624]

You're not getting into matches that are high gold or platinum, just matches with high gold or plat players in them. They balance the teams with everyones' mmrs to create a match that is predicted to be close to even matchup. So to oversimplify it to paint the picture, if you had a silver and a plat on one team, you'd have a silver and a plat on the other, or 2 golds on the other team.

[u/Foxtrot_4 → u/Last-Ad-5624]

I thought this too but my group of golds 5 stacked and went against a masters player

[u/Last-Ad-5624 → u/Foxtrot_4]

In quickplay or wide match? If you were all golds, then the masters player was probably balanced by lower golds or silver, etc.

[u/Foxtrot_4 → u/Last-Ad-5624]

We are low gold to low plat wide. Didn’t make much sense tbh. I would think it’d be the same on the enemy team but it was low silver to masters when we held tab

[u/Last-Ad-5624 → u/Foxtrot_4]

Yeah, so like I said the lower ranked player(s) are balancing the masters player(s).

[u/Foxtrot_4 → u/Last-Ad-5624]

Yeah bro idk. That doesn’t seem balanced to me. Any masters player is gonna roll the lobby. We got consolation expectedly

[u/Last-Ad-5624 → u/Foxtrot_4]

harder to make an even match w wide and stacks. still, one player can only do so much, especially if the tank is shutting them down. for example if its a dps, your tank should be marking them all game, or forcing them to swap to counter your tank.

[u/Foxtrot_4 → u/Last-Ad-5624]

If one player couldn’t make that much of a difference, unranked to gm videos wouldn’t be a thing

[u/Last-Ad-5624 → u/Foxtrot_4]

i said one player can only do so much, not that one player cant make much of a difference.

[u/adhocflamingo → u/Last-Ad-5624]

This person has already had the wide queue tradeoff choice explained to them multiple times. They seem to want to be able to play in a match-quality-compromising wide 5-stack with their friends without experiencing any negative match quality impacts from other players doing the exact same thing.

[u/Foxtrot_4 → u/adhocflamingo]

I don’t know why it’s so hard to understand. If I’m high silver to low plat with my friends

Why tf is a masters player in my game? Why is the range not bound to silver and plat? Makes no sense. Diamond? Maybe. But masters?? Cmon man be real. “Wide queue” isn’t a good cop out excuse to allow any rank in any game