Late nights with LoL matchmaking
I’m moving in about a week so my days have become increasingly hectic and I’m starting to lose sleep. It’s not that I’m worried, there’s just a lot to think about so I end up awake fairly late at night twiddling my thumbs. The obvious solution? You guessed it.
I make the distinction between night and day because night games are a very different animal. While daytime I usually expect someone on either team to know what they’re doing, nighttime that cannot be assumed. Late night games are this crazy hodgepodge of people playing toons they don’t know, crazy level one teamfights, complete and utter indifference to teammate requests for help, the same indifference toward map and buff control. I know, it sounds a lot like normal ranked games, and it is, just turned up about a hundred decibels and driving a ninety miles an hour toward a flaming brick wall. Heimer doesn’t get banned. Are you starting to see what I mean?
In a way it’s been a lot of fun. I stopped placing much stock in ranked queues a while ago, so it doesn’t bother me much that I’m seeing players go well into the double digits on kills again, or that games swing violently back and forth between one side’s advantage and the other’s. It’s been hectic in an enjoyable way.
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Last ranked game, we had a mid Mundo & a Teemo. And we won. But hey, I learned something.
Never underestimate the other teams stupidity? Say yes pleas.
More like “never give up early based on judgements about team composition” or something. Because, believe it or not, the Teemo & Mundo did ok. The other team’s Ez went like 23/4/11 and had full Occult stacks a couple of times. The weak link was their Yi – who was not horrible, but who missed like 2 early levels due to DC. Still, there was some back and forth and we just outplayed them. This was about a ~1310 ELO game.
Maybe it’s different in your ELO bracket, but for me, I find more experienced players at night. I mean, don’t get me wrong, there’s always that one random feeder. But in the daytime there are a lot of people who think they are good, but are not. Anyway, I mostly play at night, especially now since it takes forever to find a game in the day. I gotta say, nighttime games are more fun, imo. Especially when there’s a drunk guy online shouting random expletives.
I think you underestimate the number of global players in the game…ergo when it’s night where