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League of Legends Patch 10.7 Adds Premade Balance in Ranked Matchmaking

By Max Mallow

Riot Games added a new premade balance system to ranked to work on matchmaking improvements.
Riot Games added a new premade balance system to ranked to work on matchmaking improvements. / Photo by Riot Games

League of Legends Patch 10.7 notes were released Tuesday featuring a new matchmaking improvement set to make balancing more fair in ranked play.

League of Legends Patch 10.7 Adds Premade Balance in Ranked Matchmaking

"As we mentioned last patch, we've been working on some matchmaking improvements like Autofill Balance to make sure that each game of League feels as fair as possible. With this follow-up change, we'll be attempting to make sure that when one team in a Solo/Duo game has a duo, the other team should have one as well.

This change will only be applying to Ranked Solo/Duo for right now. We’ll be looking into adding it to Flex and Normal games, but since premades can be of all different sizes in those modes, making them equivalent across teams can be much more complicated. Once we've had a chance to see these changes live, we'll try to expand to queues with different group sizes," Riot Games said in the patch notes.

League of Legends Patch 10.7 also included nerfs to Wukong and Garen. The former was deemed overpowered after his rework was released last patch, so he's been tuned down a bit. Additionally, the Fiddlesticks rework arrived in Patch 10.7 with a visual and gamplay update.