April 2020
I keep dying to lvl 500s when I’m only a lvl 188 and all I get is 2 kills a game max. Seems like the sbmm is broken.
April 2020
It's really broken. My last game, with two premades, one level 50 and the other level 100, myself at level 300, just got doubled by two squads, booth with all players around level 500.
April 2020
People should stop mentioning level in these SBMM discussions. SBMM should and most likely is using K/D as the base, at least as the most important variable. Try it for yourself; create a smurf and get 15-20 kills, 3000 dmg the first match, you WILL be back at your usual matchmaking the second match.
I think this all this talk about "unfair matchmaking" is getting out of hand. If you are a player around 1 k/d after "many" casual matches, especially when playing with randoms, then you arent a noob anymore, and most of those scary "300 level players with 2k dmg badges" most likely have a kd around 1.2-2.0, and to put you in a match together is not unfair at all. And its not unexpected at all that the champion squad of your match is high elo.
I dont even think all SBMM complainers, both for and against, even know exactly what they want from the matchmaking. It seems to me that all you want is to actually be matched with on average worse players than you and you are just pissed that you cant get five kills every match
April 2020
I have a 1.57 K/D and I’m level 257. Every time I play solo, My teammates are almost always under level 100, a lot of times under level 50. Then we are killed by a 3 stack of 4K and 20 kill badge players. I’ve never come close to getting 4K damage or 20 kills and I can guarantee my level 50 Random’s havent either. Their SBMM system is 100% broken.
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@BabbediboopiHow can you think it's fair to match new players with 1.2-2.0 KD with high level players with the same KD? Don't you get that their KD is reach while playing against a lot better players, while the new players KD is reach while playing against other new players.
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Thats why I wrote "after many" matches, and like I also said; the matchmaking seems to kick in after your first match. For some time after the launch of the game, you always got your first 10 levels in a separate matchmaking but that isnt the case any longer, for the better.
But most importantly, I think its a fair match because this is a BR and not a 5v5 LoL or CS match. You cant expect a super hard SBMM in a game that requires 60 players per lobby. I do think it should exist a SBMM to separate the very very worst players from the rest. But if you have around 1 K/D after "many" matches, you arent in any ways a pro, but not a noob either and you are well within the skill level to be matched with "lvl 300 with 2k dmg badges" and also a couple of current /old Preds.
April 2020
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You misunderstand me. All I mean with "many matches" is that a given player has played enough matches so his K/D isnt abnormally high or low so that it doesnt reflect his real skills. So "many matches" just means that he isnt a newly created account that only played to lvl 10 and then through bronze and silver ranked.
So yes, I think a player with 100 matches and casual 1.5 k/d has an equivalent skill that of a lvl 500 player (probably with 5k matches) and casual 1.5 k/d, equal enough to be placed in the same casual game lobby at least. That just means the latter player has spent more time and nothing else.