Talk:Leagues/@comment-30897999-20180712140615/@comment-34929636-20180712144533

That isn't actually true.

Yes, matchmaking and leagues are different, however that is because Matchmaking refers to the algorithm and leagues refer to a categorization system.

They are, however, related. When you enter the queue, provided the game mode is not skirmish (which has much simpler MM rules, namely, grabbing the first 12 players in the queue and trhowing them in a match with no regard to anything else), the system first checks your league before attempting to match you against opponents. If it cannot find enough players within one level up or down, it broadens to two, and so on, until a enough players are found to start a match (typicaly 10 minimum).

Equipment strength is ONLY used for tiebreakers. If two matches are almost ready, and the two remaining players are in the same league, it will tend to throw the one with stronger equipment into the higher ranked match.

The system you have refered to is actually the outdated Tier system,which did match solely on eqiupment strength. This system was removed due to being even easier to abuse than the current system (read the Gold Farming article dor more info on just how bad it was).