Disclaimer: Not a Matchmaking-QQ. This just can't be natural, it's just smelling way to fishy.



Following problem:

I play with together with a friend of mine. None of our accounts ever played a non-practice game without the other one.

We're level 27 or so now and have 110/100 w/l. I figure our ELO should be pretty low.

However, a week ago or so, our opponents jumped from between 20 and 30-with-less-than-300-wins to full level 30 teams with 500-800 wins each (even some 1000+ guys) while our team rarely had more than one or two 30's.
Needless to say we were stomped like hell and couldn't stand a chance, they were just so much more experienced and had so much more practice.

Queue times for these matches were between 10 seconds and 2 minutes. Nothing unusual, just like before.

All this happened literally over night. One day normal opponents, next day STOMP.
This has been constantly the case for the past week, so it can't just be an exception.

We were able to grab a first win once every 2-3 days due to the tables being turned (wtfstomp guys in our team and enemy team with unlucky sub-30's getting stomped), but we're getting sick of it and are considering to just not bother with our main accounts anymore...


Is there any explanation for this? I only post this here because I noticed an increasing amount of similar complaints in the leaguecraft forums.


Did our ELO just skyrocket up to those guys' levels or did theirs drop or is there an error somewhere in the queue system?
I don't understand how such a drastical change from okay opponents to I-hate-this-game can happen out of nowhere.

group queuing boosts your elo.

could be people playing on smurf accounts

maybe they're just that good

I can't really get much info out of this. You'd have to contact Zileas or someone who understands how the system works and knows how to datamine it.

ya this happened to me a few times. for the matchmaking there is a section on it, which i read.
a few things are that you elo when group only goes up a little with 2 people, a little more with 3, etc.

also the amount of time you are in the queue will raise the elo of you opponents because it only looks for a fair match for so long then it will raise the bar to get you in a game so the wait time is not too long.

the page is here:
http://www.leagueoflegends.com/learn...ay/matchmaking

and a few thing i said:
"Initially, the system will only match players with similar Elo ratings. When enough time elapses however, it will broaden the range it considers acceptable in order to find a match and prevent players from waiting too long."

"While we will not give precise values because those are trade secrets, we can say that:

1. 5-man pre-mades are only moderately stronger than solo queuers
2. Partial pre-mades have only a slight advantage
3. New players don’t benefit much from being in a pre-made, while experts benefit a lot"

I have read that sams0n and I understand it.

But the issue here is:
Nothing had changed in the way we queued or in the time we spent in the queues.
Nothing changed, but still the outcome of the queue was differnent from what it should have been, by a huge amount.
Which is why I find it so puzzling.


By now the enemies are slowly getting weaker again because we've been having our asses kicked A LOT during the past week.

But it'd still be beneficial to find out what the cause of all this was.
In the case that there really is an error that mixed up ELO's or made the matchmaking act strange I'd prefer it to not happen again.

I have this since i hitted lvl 27, one game my teammates are between lvl 20-25, other game it's 9 lvl 30's, average 500 wins + me being lvl 27. But i didn't had problems winning, i even often thought at the end screen "700 wins and still don't last-hitting creeps WTF?". Only irritating about it are the tier 3 runes, while i only got tier 1. A ryze on lvl 3 could kill me in 2 seconds, because he had lots of MR and AP runes. The surprising effect was the biggest deal, because useally against worse rune pages i would have survived it.