As a person who solo queued 10+ flawlesses this weekend, trials is free. As long as you are able to 1v3 against 0.5s you can basically do whatever you want. Sure, my teammates suck, but so does everyone on the other team. Majority of the games i’m the only one in there who has any thumbs. I get a good amount of games that I can’t win unless i genuinely get every kill in the game, but that’s not every game. I think random matchmaking and random team balancing is the best choice for trials.

You’re in the top 0.5% of Trials players of course the majority of your teammates are going to seem like sandbags! Out of your last 50 matches you’ve won 44 and only lost 6! I don’t think your teammates are dragging you down as much as you’re making out.

Solo playing is always tough in this game, we need freelance to help a little

Fully agree. And I do honestly admit I quit out of a lot of matches last weekend. For me pretty much 90% of the time being in the team where u can already see u have absolutely no chance of winning I don’t waste my time anymore. Rather take the30 min break and play something else.

Went 1.83 last rotation (summoner) and honestly my teammates werent bad, in fact they clutched pretty well

So i'm not that good at PVP when it comes to Trials, i'm on the back end of average, i'll be one of those 0.4's or 0.6's on your team. I try to play as much as i can and even though i am usually stomped on i try to GG but it is hard when you don't even have time to even get a shot off. I mean i can sometimes throw a whole mag into a opponent and they get 2-3 shots on me and i'm dead..... I know that i am most likely hampering peoples cards (I do care about that but i'm not putting me into your team, it's bungie) but you see Bungie makes it so i have to do trials if i want a trials weapon. As long as Bungie put weapons as rewards that can only be obtained in trials you are going to see crap players in trials period. I even had one chap advise me to "Improve" via messages after one match (Would like to but not going to happen with the current match making and lobby balancing). I generally will play trials to level up to get the engrams so i can then possibly get a decent normal roll and once i have it i then stop playing trials. So if you want to see these bottom dweler players like myself out of the trials pool then get bungie to increase the amount of reputation you get, the quicker i earn my engrams the quicker i'll rack off and do something else.

MM is the best... 1 Good has to carry 2 nohands which cant get over 300dmg in 8 rounds lmao. As a thank you you dont get a god roll but the hary with his 200 dmg instant

1.7 here. I agree. I have to play as a solo because duos and trios are too sweaty. Half the time, I have to carry.

Something tells me there are not many players playing pvp and no matter the matchmaking system put in place there is a limit that can be done if you pool of players is too narrow.

Weird flex, but okay

Sorry but 23 times in one week!? What else did you do that weekend? Did you use the bathroom? 😂 Woulda been hella bored after 5 ngl. Not trying to be mean, but half the reason your 1.8 in trials is because there are 0.6s on the other team. When the tables turn its horrid. Some form of team balance would be good though! Have lost several flawless games cos I get sub 1kd teammates zero flawless and go against people who’s been flawless like 10 times that week. Painful.

I feel you and I agree. I’ve posted many times over the years for some form of lobby balancing in Trials. Not SBMM, but composing the teams based on stats so they are at least not completely lopsided. If you have 6 solos, it’s shouldn’t be a crazy ask to not put all 3 S tier players together leaving 3 C/D/F tier players to figure it out. In Duos it should look for solos that most closely balance the compositing of the existing fireteams to balance them out as best as possible. Can’t tell you have many matches I have where there are 3, 9/10 and 10/10 players in my solo lobby and 2 like 2/10’s but the game puts all the 2’s with me. I’m probably a 7/10 on average. I’d be happy to have at least 2 5’s with me against that stacked squad if it’s my only option. . I played 14 hours of Trials this weekend and it was the worst trials experience I’ve had since all the way back to D1. You sound like a better player than I am but I am pretty decent. I generally only make a flawless run if I want the weapon but as a solo player I can make it without a ton of pain and frustration, aside from this weekend where the lobby balancing was the worst I’d ever seen. I can certainly carry depending on my opponents and clutch when it’s needed, but I was having to carry and clutch every round of every match. That’s no fun. Fell at the gates 4x in a row on Monday due to having players throw, quit and be completely outclassed by the opposing team. Repeatedly lost both Mercies on Match 6 and sometimes 7 only to lose again due to having players quit on the outset, run the same line every round and get deleted, not get rezs, not cover rezs, stand in the open, take super to orbit etc etc. found I had to put Arc Warlock on and run Necrotic with Lighting Surge and Tressoasser to force my way inside and take out hopefully 2 each time just to give my potatoes a fighting chance. They rarely if ever were anywhere nearby to clean up kills or stop the remaining opponent from getting the rez’s. Monday night I wasn’t even to get beyond match 5 with 2 mercies due to the same team comp BS. Tried for a few more hours and then said enough was enough. Sorry you had a tough go too.

Since season 15, I have played over 95% of my matches solo. Around 1500 matches. My overall KD went from from around 1.7 playing with a team to well over a 2.0 between seasons 15 and 23 playing solo. I have not played this season. I have had the same experience when attempting a flawless card. I am matched the majority of the time with two players who are well under 1.0 KD and expect to carry my team. My opposing team has a similar composition of KD. It's why my KD has increased. It's how they create teams. One high KD and Two low KD OR Three slightly above 1.0 KD. From my experience. The games after flawless have been a roll of the dice. Sometimes I see similar matchmaking as above or it's stricter and matches both teams with my KD. It really depends on how many people are playing that day and within that pool.

I don’t think matchmaking is the issue I think players should be forced into a tutorial of PvP before they start running g around by themselves,a lot of players clearly don’t understand what to do in any PvP modes or how their abilities/weapons work in crucible. Also I feel like people get punished to harshly for having teammates that are clearly throwing.

There IS a better matchmaking system no? LFG? Especially for you, you need to play with better players, not carry casuals all the time.

Muted

There's people playing since day one who have yet to step foot in in the lighthouse and here you are, 23 times just last week, and crying about getting a blueberry on your team every now and then? It must be tragic