Balance? 4 min queue!

[Kaawumba-1133]

@AsuraRival-2290

So I was waiting for 4 minutes for a match just to play against a 5 Stack. My team had a duo. Where is the balance Blizzard? Where please tell me. The longer the queue the more balanced should be the game right?

Actually, it is the reverse. The general design philosophy is to give you a balanced match as fast as possible if it is available. If it is not available, keep looking. If still not found after a while, give you whatever it can find so you don’t have to wait in queue forever.

Edit: I should mention this:

@ScottMercer

If one of the teams doesn’t have at least a predicted 40% win rate, then we simply don’t create the game. Even if you do end up in game where your predicted win rate is close to 40%, it’s important to remember that it also means that your SR will drop less when you lose, and you will gain more SR if you win. To help explain this further, here’s a simplified example to help explain how predicted win percentage affects your SR. As an example, let’s say you play 10 games in a row and all 10 games only have a predicted 40% win rate. If you win 4 of those 10 matches, your SR be the same as it started.

The rest of that post is worth reading, as well.