That it requires for the QM matchmaker to not be drunk
If one team has a frontline with CC is it REALLY that unreasonable to ask for the other team to have the same instead of their only melee being Qhira?
Why why is it so hard?
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Blackmagic is when enemy team has brains, but your teammates lost them somewhere during searching for game.
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I can work with brains
But whenn the enemy get drafted a Xul and Lucio who can just walk up speed boosted while the ONLY thing to stop them is a Qhira
This matchmaker is drunk and it’s been happening over nad over.
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QuickMatch and Balance. KEKW
They haven’t accounted for certain imbalances in the matchmaker, for example not counting Xul and Uther as pseudo tanks.
If Xul gets matched vs a Qhira or Uther versus Deckard as the only front liners, it’s going to be a very unfair match given equal skill of both teams.
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The thing is Xul’s classification is a bruiser and their team had a melee assassin as well (his OP piece of garbage himself Zaratuel)
So no idea what it was smoking when we ONLY got a Qhira
Seems to happen every time it says “expanding search”. Now I instantly cancel when it says that.
I’ve been getting role imbalances a lot too. However, since the matchmaker doesn’t account for things like CC, Burst vs Sustain, and Mage vs AA, the matches are still really unpredictable.
Oh how I long for more tags/classifiers for each hero, and a matchmaker that can more fairly create matches based on that information. If we ever need to consolidate game modes by merging QM and UD, it may be the only way that game mode would be tolerable.
You dont like my twinblades on qm?
Because it’s QM.
Wheel of fortune.
My advice. Don’t play QM.
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For someone that has a panda as a portrait, you need to watch Kun Fu Panda.
“There is no secret sauce”
The black magic is alt+f4 as soon as you see the countdown and end up with a crappy team 
Although bear in mind even with a relatively normal / decent composition your game is by no means guaranteed to be any good, you’ll still see plays that make you want to quit.
I can never watch any of those films without imagining Poe pulling a GUitar out of nowhere and challenging the antagonist to a Rock Off, and then the dark forces being demonic are honourbound to accept!
All credit to original poster.
Repeat after me:
Quick Match is not Balanced.
Quick Match will not be Balanced.
Quick Match will NEVER be Balanced.
I don’t enjoy being blunt about it, but that is the hardcore fact that just is not getting through here. The problem is not that there are teams getting all sorts of CC while another isn’t, the problem is that the players are expecting all the benefits of drafting without actually drafting.
Seriously. Mobas with a large roster are designed from the start to go through a drafting process. You pick your team, you pick them to work together with each other, and hopefully develop some sort of overarching strategy to deal with the enemy team whether it’s hard lane pushing or dive compositions. In addition, you can also get the chance to ban characters that would pose a problem for your intended strategy.
That doesn’t take place with Quick Match. All that mode was designed to be was one where you could pick a character, and just be assured that you could play that character in the game that you got. It could be with a group of characters that work well, or it could be in a group that doesn’t. This also means that you get tons of players playing the characters that they want, rather than what the team needs… So you get a lot of hot-shot DPS players complaining they don’t get any help or healing because no one wants to go tank/healer.
Seriously, the problem is not the mode, it’s the people who don’t understand what the mode really is… Just a quick way to get into a match by completely bypassing the drafting process.
And every attempt to have the computer even attempt rudimentary drafting for you has just sent the queue times skyrocketing to the point where the devs revert them.
Repeat after me: Quick Match is not Balanced. Quick Match will NEVER be balanced.
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Your gonna need some swamps before you start casting black magic.
but really tho, queue with friends. Being able to set up a team before hand makes a huge difference.
you could always queue up with me for a guaranteed healer. and id like to think that i have brains : p
I had this the other night, a Tassadar that went basic attack build against a terrible composition, and he’d stand in Stukov’s silence and Deathwing’s Q and complain about not having a front line.
You want to learn about the BBC? (Big Black Counterspell)
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My magic is to lay back a little further, keep using my abilities, try to not die, laugh at being deleted if so, accept being slowly dominated, wake up if we have an advantage anyway (happens). “Drop the emotional effort”, so to speak.
Sure, if I get 3+ matches like that in a row, I tilt, but I have a rule to quit after one loss for the day, so it shouldn’t be so bad. Well, losing for a whole week isn’t nice either. But I had my 12 win streak once, so…
It isn’t limited to frontline like that. I had some nigh unwinnable matches on my current Johanna streak as well. In an item-based game I would just pick all level 1 talents (as items), so that I have survival, heal, and escape, and maybe win. Garrosh with followup, GG.
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Very wise words, sir/madam.
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