Does Deadlock have MMR?

While not outwardly apparently, especially with no ranked mode present, Deadlock does use MMR in its matchmaking. Every time you queue up for a match, it uses a variety of hidden factors including your average soul count, kills and deaths, and win/loss ratio to put you up against people who perform similarly. This can sometimes increase queue times as it finds these people, but the trade-off is that the quality of the matches increases.

However, you may notice at times that matches aren’t always fair with someone much better than you. There can be a few reasons for this. Most notable in the short term is that the game is in early development. Many aspects of the game are still in their early iterations, including the MMR, so there’s a good chance it may slip up and put you against someone much better than you, or vice versa. This has the added consequence of influencing matchmaking, as games where you either stomp or get destroyed can wildly sway what Deadlock thinks your skill level is.