There's A Serious Problem With Team Balance

KeepinItCool

It's nearly impossible to win my matches the way team balancing currently is. The enemy team consistently has good players with high headshot percentage while my teammates look like they stumbled across a computer running the game and continued to play with their elbows. Anybody understand what's going on? I'm not sure how SBMM and team balancing works in unranked buy I hope ranked mode will fix this. [upl-image-preview url=https://valorantforums.com/assets/files/2020-06-20/1592612084-158785-valorant-screenshot-20200619-17074670.png]

HybridMeister

KeepinItCool If you do your due diligence, you can personally LFG and find teammates that suit you. There's a vast number of platforms allowing you to do so, which includes, but isn't limited to: valorantforums.com, Discord, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

If you'd rather not have to establish a hand-picked team you'll have to be patient for the release of ranked mode.

giantjoe202

I agree, there is currently NO team balancing at all, you can play with noobs that do not know how to use a mouse to aim and don't even communicate against a full premade team with strats and skill and there is absolutely no excuse for that.

They did a Q&A recently and they said that they don't see any problems at all. I don't understand how they can say that : they have every possible data on every matches but they are incapable of seeing that something is wrong. How can I be match MVP with a 33/15 ratio, and the next match be last of the match with 3/18 ??? They also said that the system currently in place is preventing the humiliating losses... but all the losses I have are humiliating ! They just never bother to code a balancing of teams and they rely on the ranked system that they gonna introduce in a few time.

And @HybridMeister every other game in the world have a decent balancing system, and the game that is supposed to be the newest hit in the competitive fps landscape cannot even provide the simplest system to oppose players of same-ish level. IT'S A SHAME !!! Ok Valorant is free but it's not a reason for us to accept that they s**t in our face ! With the amount of data that the game collects of our type of gameplay, they should be able to place us in teams of our level and against teams of decent adversaries.

There are a lot of things that needs to be fixed : for example it's very common for me to loose a duel against a guy with a Specter that is strafe-running and not knowing that I wait for him with the reticle well placed at head height, perfectly still with a Vandal in my hands...

Currently this game make no sense in his condition...

KeepinItCool

giantjoe202 The matchmaking really could be better, but comparing it to other games does show that it could be a lot worse. I'm just glad they're adding in a ranked system. If the matchmaking for unranked is random, that's a step up from call of duty modern warfare (which was my main game for a while) where good players are actively put with below average players to balance teams. Overall Valorant has been a huge step up from what I'm used to (yes cod is that bad) and I'm just waiting for ranked.

[unknown] That does prove my point where if the solution is to find other players on forums to team up with that are able to hold their own, that implies the current matchmaking has a problem. Thanks for the feedback though, waiting for ranked seems like the simpler option. All the loses in unranked don't matter anyway because it's unranked and I do my part in the team so there isin't any negative feeling from losing.

thecrimsonsatyr

There is a serious issue with match making. Seems like every match I get in is heavily one sided.

Take this match for instance. https://twitter.com/CrimSatGaming/status/1275360857073971205

I am by no means a decent player. In fact I am horrible, but the Jett on my team was on 300+ ping, and could barely aim at a target coming through a door in front of her with shotgun and they were still vastly better than the rest on my team.

Barring the enemy Raze, the rest of the enemy team were all pretty even in terms of skill.

GombaPorkolt2

Agreed. The unbalanced teams are infuriating. The same happens to me. Sometimes I ace the match, and others, I can barely get a kill (I'm fairly new to competitive online FPS, but I have grown up on FPS games, so the discrepancy shouldn't be this high with good matchmaking/team balancing). Sometimes we get an enemy team who cannot even play and is no fun playing against, and sometimes, I get a team who can barely aim with their mouse! Yes, there are balanced matches with tight wins/losses which I am happy about whether I'm winning or not, but those are few and far between. Usually it's something like 13-5 for either of the teams.

As much as I love this game and keep playing it, with no ranked matchmaking (or any matchmaking system at all), it's either a walk in the park or slamming your head against the wall, what with the player skills all over the place.

Flashshark80

Well they really should separate premade teams from random team...or better:
There should not be any premade teams in unranked play!
Premade teams are just unfair!

Also skillbased matchmaking should be added!
Helped Apex Legend to become great again!

dolero

Flashshark80 so I won't be able to play unranked with my friends? That's not really a solution. Maybe a button to choose if you wanna play against a full lobby or not.. that would be ok. But to restrict it would kill the game.

CoachHamm

Its worth mentioning that your teams might be not as bad as you think they are by just looking at their KDAs. Reyna seems to be the only character you're playing and she needs to have high kills to be useful to the team. Other characters can be great contributors with lower kills. For example if a Sage and Reyna have the same kills at the end of a game, its likely the Sage contributed significantly more to the team.

I'm not saying match making is perfect. Just saying that once you expect your teammates to be bad, you kind of create a self-fulfilling prophecy and will only notice their mistakes. Also none of your games were absurdly one sided. 6-13 isn't close, but you guys still took rounds.

KeepinItCool

CoachHamm I see where you're coming from and you're right, but that's only true to a certain point. The majority of the time duelists can clutch up better than supports in say a 1v2 or 1v3. There have been plenty of times where I got 3 or 4 kills and my team still lost the round, attacker and defense. Character roles aside, that just shouldn't happen.

CyDescent

Two things here:
-Ranked has only just began, there's always a bit more chaos before things settle.
-The OP example will always happen from time to time, that's just the extreme way odds can land. It unlucky but most of the time it's going to be much better, probably the next 10-20 games will be more accurate and you will end up at a rank you belong. Time is always the great equaliser.