Is that Pantheon? If so, u don't really have much choice altho I thought the system looked at people's latency before matching them up.
So for all we know, usually, he might have a ping of 100 to someone in his geographical area.
Or, maybe he's new, his BB connection is perfectly normal for any other game but then it turns out his ISP packet shapes.
Sometimes people don't do things on purpose.
For example, I started with a normal ping (sub-150) and then my AV kicked in and it ground my laptop to a halt... so I had to alt+tab and switch it off... when i got back, this guy had told me to, "sort your f**** connection".
The joys of internet gaming...