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The match making in this game feels off. You play a match and win easy. Then you play another match and get destroy. And my profile says like a 47% win rate. It feels the game wants you to win some lose some

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over 3 years ago - /u/HiRezAjax - Direct link

oh boy this one again, someone already linked my longer explanation - so feel free to read that - but a quick TLDR

YES - nearly all multiplayer pvp games try to get you to 50% winrate - this is done by dynamically adjusting the difficulty of your matches - you win - your MMR goes up - you get paired with higher MMR players next match

HOWEVER - people often use this term "force 50% winrate" incorrectly in order to justify their negative experiences. We do NOT ever "try to drag you bag down with bad teammates" - if your team has someone underperforming, its likely for normal reasons - theyre having a bad day/game, theyre on a god they dont know well, or possibly the MMR spread of the entire queue was hard to keep closer (but the enemy team should always have a close MMR spread to your team even in that situation)

Your experience is most likely coming from a combination of these features. The game does NOT "want you to win some and lose some" - it only strives to help you find the place where you are most evenly skilled with all 10 players (which ends up resulting in 50/50 win/loss of matches that should feel close, even, interesting, and challenging)