Riot Games has today declared a huge victory over imbalanced League of Legends matches that were filled with lopsided autofill players. It’s a big step for the developers as they continue to massage the MOBA’s matchmaking towards proper fairness.
The latest swing at League matchmaking and its balance came in Patch 14.17, when Riot’s developers targeted side parity as well as matching LP gaps. The biggest slice of this change, however, leaned into solving autofill by leveling out how many appear in each matchmade party—a core objective the devs now seem to have conquered, with League balance boss Matt Leung-Harrison declaring the issue “effectively eliminated.”