Matchmaking is destroying my mental - I need to vent
I am consistently being put in lobbies with all solo queue teammates against 5 stacks who seem to have never lost a game in their lives. Every single game I queue, without fail, is against players who are, on average, better skilled and higher rated.
I believe this is because of how the matchmaking, in its simplest form, decides to match players based on win-differential over anything like rank or skill rating, or more importantly, party status.
I'm currently +23 wins ahead of being 50/50 this season (used to be +50ish; now I'm on a loss streak), which means I'm likely matched with players who are around -30 to -10 win rate against teams who can range the same. Since players of any win differential can party together, balancing the match becomes a nightmare, especially for 5 stacks, so it's easier to grab a random couple of soloers with the same spread of wins and match them against each other (historically the worst decision ever made and remedied by any developer worth their salt who has ever built a competitive matchmaking system).
The problem is the matchmaker doesn't update the win rate status regularly, so if you're winstreaking with your party of 4, your win rate can go into orbit before you're matched against players of the same win rating. Same thing when you start losing over and over and over and over and over again. It doesn't update until you've genuinely thought about putting the barrel of a 44 magnum in your mouth and pulling the trigger.
Anyway, this needs to change, stat. I can't continue going on like this. I can't.