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This is one of the hidden mechanics that I hated the most after it got introduced. Might even be the number 1 It's not explained anywhere, and most people have no idea minions power up in this way It removed a lot of strategic depth. Made league into a push push push game

[Apex Matchmaking] Wanted to add a bit of context to some of the Apex Matchmaking fairness conversations happening recently. What we've been hearing 1. It's frustrating to have Diamonds and Challengers in the same game Response: Agree with this being a not ideal experience and it's an item to resolve when we can get to it. Only making Challenger queue times longer isn't something we can do right now without unintended consequences or negative tradeoffs on queue times/match quality We currently have a few higher priority things we're working on, but it's something we want to be able to do in the future 2. These massive LP Diff games are unfair Response: We currently believe that games that have Large LP diffs are ~fair, with the way we are matchmaking them rn. There are other factors we take into consideration as well like Duos, Autofill balance, etc. On average, we observe Apex+ teams have between a 49-51% chance to win anywhere from 0 LP diff between teams to 2000 LP diff. This is because we're matchmaking on MMR, not LP currently. However, these large LP diffs can be pretty confronting to look at and make the match look unfair. 95% of games fall under 1500 LP diff between teams, 86% under 1000LP, 65% under 500LP. We have more work to do here to make matches both be fair and look fair. I've attached 2 examples of random games with these diffs. Sometimes there are low rank alt accounts that are actually super strong players that actually have very high ratings (and are often duoing). Other times (the vast majority), the MMR of the teams are fair, but their LP values are desynced for a variety of reasons (climb timing, etc.) There are of course games where there's a lopsided LP diff and the team with higher LP wins, but it happens as often as the lower LP team winning.