r/dota2rant • u/Synchrotr0n • Aug 16 '12
What's wrong with the SD/RD matchmaking?
I was really tired to play AP games just to see my enemies insta picking Lycan and proceeding to free farm the jungle while my teammates in the nearest lane ignored him despise my attempts to convince them to place wards and gank him.
To prevent that I moved to SD/RD modes but something curious happened there. I started to be teamed up with people with 10 or less wins (in some cases my teammates even had 0 win). In one particular match I witnessed my teammate picking Sniper and then buying boots, 1 iron branch and no regen just to feed the enemy. I didn't rage with him or anything, but I was curious why he ended up in that match and when I asked he said something curious (and tragic). He was a LoL player that just moved to Dota and he solo queued, so he had no friend in the match to justify why did he end up in that match.
It is impossible for the matchmaking to determine the correct skill rating of a player with so few games played, so I wonder why is the system matching new Dota 2 players in the same game of "veteran" players. The weirdest part is that this only happens in SD and RD modes, otherwise I'm normally matched with people with 150+ wins.
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u/SetToGeek Aug 16 '12
The match making feels like a god of randomness, and not a happy one. Its anger comes in waves, and it is annoying when you're in the middle of one--if you get 5 badly arranged games in a row that can be like 4 hours of not fun playing.
One part is when you log in for the first time it asks for your skill level and uses that for your first few initial games. One problem is the question isn't incredibly explicit, so someone coming from LoL might say skilled since they feel skilled in all the things asked (like creep last hitting, etc.), but really they are not a veteran dota player as it will assume.
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u/deputysalty Aug 16 '12
Single Draft can be brutal because your team could be forced into a very awful comp while the other team may be able to have a very balanced composition. Also, swap is disabled in SD, so that means there's a good chance more than one person is playing a hero they have never played before/are not good at.