I usually play 2v2 ranked, I am 1400 elo in 1v1 and 1600 in team.
Recently, I found almost all the teammate I get are much below me, usually 900 to 1100 in 1v1 and around 1100-1200 in team, while opponent is usually two players on my level or slightly above me. It is impossible to carry him.
Every game I lose 5 to 10 points, sometimes opponent is much better I lose 2-3 points, so elo steadily drops for a few games. Only occasionally maybe I get a decent game and win 15 points, then I always lose 3 to 4 games in a row and lose a few points every game. So my overall winrate is about 30%, even though the elo is constant. Why I can never get a good teammate but only those much below me?
When you load up team ranked without a premade team, you gotta be ready for anything and not take it too seriously. Some of my most fun games came from pulling a win out of one of these lopsided matchups.
People always say get a premade pair etc⊠there is no one that i know also play aoe3 ranked. But i donât want to just quit this game, i have to queue solo
There are several communities especially on discord where you can finf people to play with like Sunbros, FreeFoodParty or some Clan discords.
And honestly for ANY team based game you need to be ready to carry the whole round when playing with random teammates thatâs just how it is no matter if Dota, R6, AoE or CS - never rely on gettin a good random team.
I also queue solo most of the time, but the only way to retain sanity is to not take it too seriously and realize that if youâre losing badly it probably is just an uneven team and thereâs not much you can do about it. The only other thing worth noting is that you should restart the search before it goes past 5 mins or so if you want a closer game.
My point of is even elo stays the same, but im not winning 50% and losing 50% of games, i only win a small amount of games, most of my games are losses, because i gain much more from win than lose from losses, due to the bad teammate. This is not fun because 70% of games are losses
you seem to speak english as most people do on both Sunbros and FFP
And there are some language specific servers too afaik the German and Spanish ones are the biggest. Go join the official discord maybe and ask around for people of your language
The game has never discriminated against matching a group of practiced friends against a âscrap teamâ of players who never met before. Invalidates the team ranked mode entirely.
Sadly yes, but thats also hard to balance ⊠some premade teams are super tryhard and look for OP civ-combos and insane strategies⊠and some are just casually playing, having some fun. Tbh, idk how someone could even balance that
What would likely happen is, casual ranked teams would be ranked lower, and âtryhardâ groups would be ranked higher.
Same with a solo team queue.
People who go into teams with a teamwork mindset will be higher ranked than those looking to play simcity.
What we currently have is an abomination which carries those with non-teamwork mindsets into higher ranks by sheer luck of who their matched with. This is why a scrap team of platinum 3âs might have one guy whos clearly not ready for this rank, but he got there becouse, in many of his games, he was the 4th fill to a team of 3 tryhards.
Meanwhile, the rest of his team got their rank by playing in teams of solo players, and as a result are of a far higher caliber in terms of skill and overall teamworthiness.
So in essense, every single player whos approached this game to enlist with teams of random players will find severe inconsistency to matches around platinum rank and ultimately quit unless they can somehow arrange teams with other players who share their schedule.
But even then, those games will be inconsistent too becouse a lot of them will be too easy
The issue is, you cant split team ranked, because player numbers are too low. Pre-made team and random team need to be in the same queue to have somewhat reasonable waiting times. Also you canât give pre-made teams a malus per se, because some of them are super tryhards and others are casual(/non toxic)⊠casual premade would be not at all viable, resulting in more toxic strategies and less players on team ladder
Also âcasualâ here means ânormalâ playstyles not relying on broken strats, like german-russian inquisitorspam⊠im not talking about âsimcityâ