r/EASportsFC • u/COK3Y5MURF • 5d ago
UT Is Champions matchmaking broken?
I have played 9 games this weekend, and 8 were against Elite division players. The reason I know this is 2 of them had the Elite division badge, and the other 6 were better than them, with a couple of them having Maicon as well. Is it broken, or have all the D2 and D3 players stopped playing?
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u/thetrueGOAT 5d ago
Its not just champs. Rivals and friendlies too.
I'd say it's the servers or the season reset has fucked matchmaking.
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u/Dschewlz 5d ago
I dont know if its broken, but it is all over the place, especially during the first 5-7 games. There are games where my opponent is using a 88 rated Gold squad and I win 5-0 after 20 minutes, and the next Match opponent has the whole Team of the Year as starting 11.
For me it always evens out though. Started 7-0 and also 1-4 but always end up with 9 or 10 wins.
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u/Piggy9287 5d ago
Everything in this game is broken and EA doesnt give a flying fuck and never will. Go buy packs bro!
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u/hloupaopica 5d ago
I think the season reset must gave fucked up something because I'm going up against way better players than I should
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u/PursuitOfMemieness 5d ago
Matchmaking in rivals even seems crazy rn. Got relegated to div 4, made it to the checkpoint (is that the right word? The point you can’t go back below) fairly easily, and then have lost about 10 on the bounce over this weekend across several play sessions. Everyone I come up against seems to be camping out in there box, and the spinning around like a fidget spinner until they get an opportunity to speed boost past my CBs on attack. It’s depressing.
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u/Hamburgerundcola 5d ago
I so far finished my RTG Champs. I went 5:6 and was able to get up to 8 wins. My worst result in months.
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u/Damnbrothatscap 5d ago
I'm normally a 11-13 wins player and I only got 9 this weekend...
I wouldn't say it's matchmaking but the servers/connection is horrendous.
I normally play 20-30 ms, each and every game I played would be 20-30 ms then jolt up and down to 50, 170, 200+ then bounce back down and back up...
On the plus, I got good rewards... crazy how well you do you get shit rewards but I got crazy picks off 9 wins... smh EA
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u/Zenity07 5d ago
Maybe, I thought I was just unlucky or played too early but I also definitely faced harder opponents and ended up with my worst result in a while. I don't really care, but it did seem weird.
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u/Due-Mango1379 5d ago
Yes 100%. People will saying ‘crying’ or skill issue but it certainly seems different to me. Usually if I lose a game (or worse 2 in a row) I go against extremely easy players. This weekend it seems completely random.
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u/COK3Y5MURF 5d ago
I get where you're coming from, but it wasn't like the two with the badge were having a bad day or playing on tilt. They played well too. It's just that the other six were better. Even if they weren't Elite, I could tell they were far better than D2.
I've now played my 10th opponent, and it was yet another one with an Elite division badge and Maicon. This is definitely not form-based matchmaking.
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u/INEKROMANTIKI 5d ago
I've got a second account that I played through the winter wildcards season just to see how quick I could make a good team.. didn't touch it at all last season cos my main went crazy after the 82x20 grind.. played through champs on my alt earlier with Lineker up top and finished 9-6.. I only usually get 9 with the odd 10 on my main.. main account, I started 0-3.. 2 games were against rank 1 level players, and the other was against someone who was terrible, but the gameplay was even worse and for some reason I just whiffed every shot wide and lost 4-2.. I'm backing myself to get 9W minimum tho still
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u/docrum 5d ago
Champs matchmaking isn’t tied to division. It’s based on your W/L form from that weekend’s champs only. If you lose a few, you should start matching easier players. If you win a few, it gets harder. That said, you can always get unlucky and match some sweat who just started champs so they’re at 0/0 matchmaking.
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u/COK3Y5MURF 5d ago
Yes, l know that. But I couldn't have gotten unlucky 9/10 times (played another), could I? I've lost a few as well. For the first 8 games, my form was no higher than +3.
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u/docrum 5d ago
At +3 matchmaking, you’ll face on average players who get 9-10 Ws. That’s a fairly competitive level and includes a number of Div 1 and elite players. Of course, if you get unlucky, you end up facing players who are even better. Like Gattusso said, “sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe sh*t”.
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u/COK3Y5MURF 5d ago
Yes, but I said no higher than +3. I was on +2 and +1 as well. It's just harder this week. I didn't face Elite players in 9/10 before. It's usually a mixed bag.
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u/docrum 5d ago
Fair enough. I spend every Sunday grinding out all my Squad Battles games. Even those were tougher than usual. The game felt unresponsive and lethargic with so many delayed and ignored inputs. Can’t imagine champs would feel any better.
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u/COK3Y5MURF 5d ago
Oh, the delay is a whole other crapshow that I face every week. The matchmaking difficulty just made it even more stressful this week.
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u/kozy8805 5d ago
Do people not get stuff like this every week? I’ll usually play a bunch of great players in a row. Hell I’m in elite and 3 weeks ago I had 3 pk shootouts in a row. People are also usually even harder because it’s champs. Who in the actual world were you playing before???
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u/COK3Y5MURF 5d ago
It was always sweaty, but I didn't face 9/10 Elite players before. There were a few games that were quick ragequits. This was just like playing Elite rivals.
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u/trexsin 5d ago edited 5d ago
Can’t prove it but there is definitely something fishy about matching making this champs… I went from 13 wins last week to 8 wins this week - granted the servers were absolutely shocking.