Honestly I think your best bet is hosting your own games for new players or finding similar ones. It seems like there's usually quite a few up.

Thes guys are right... should be able to host your own beginner games which you will enjoy and learn more from than getting stomped by people who know how to play.

Also, I hope you can understand that the player base is a lot better quality people than you think at this point.  What you have to understand is that it takes a long time to get a game going.  People come and go in lobbies for what seems like forever... some are looking for a stacked game that can make their record look good, others have too high of a ping to another player and leave, other people don't believe any game should ever be played without a team using exclusively the three most high powered demigods and if you're playing someone other than these three, they will leave or threaten to leave if you don't change.

So you finally get a game going and assuming you don't have someone drop, or lag, or whatever... you might have the greatest time ever playing a video game. 

But theres a catch.  I'm not a competitive guy, and I'll join the weaker looking team just to make it easier to get the game going if I have too, but even I'm taken over by an uncontrolable rage when I end up with someone who doesn't know how to play at all on my team.  Even though I'm a decent player, I'll get yelled at if I've got a pro on my team if I fail to do something perfectly so I know how it feels, but I can't help myself... don't know what it is about this game that brings out the worst in us sometimes.

Its not all our fault though.  I'm happy to have a "noob" on my team if he's willing to listen to my helpful tips (orders and instructions actually) and has played a decent amount of time offline to learn the basics.  Neither of these usually end up being true and after wasting our time trying to help bring someone into the community this person will rage quit without saying anything and we'll be left feeling like assholes.

So we try and explain politely to you beginners in the lobby that you need to find a noob game or start your own and guess what the response usually is?  "F#&$ You!"  So yeah... most hosts will usually just boot you with little or no explanation.

Anyway, read some strategy guide, join noob games, and save replays so you can learn how to play and hopefully you'll be one of us some day, screaming at people that they're god damned noobs

Also don't go back to CoH until they add dark as a controller secondary. I DEMAND IT.

They do it because you might cost them the game... it is not fun to have a potential feeder on your team.

Play pantheon and learn not to die.

Once you get 50 or so games... you can make the excuse that you win % is low because you only play good players and that you also play assasin side this Pantheon.  They'll undrstand.

I strongly support unranked play, and feel this would be a huge help to the newcomers. 

I can't imagine this would be a difficult option to incorporate, considering you can already intentionally mess with the game to prevent the game from being recorded.

Easiest way is to just host your own "noobs only" game and then check stats. I try not to be a jerk about stats, but there is simply no way I'm playing with someone who is 15% at 22 games against a solid team with 50-70% win rates (as an example). One bad person can very easily lose a game, even if their team mates are significantly better than the opposition.

Reading the guides on the forum can be helpful. Also, make sure you know the basics (i.e. hp stack/use BotF/lane control/not dieing as top priority/monks are awesome).

Here's how I (and I concider myself an average player) got such bad stats:  I don't really care about "winning", so I just usually picked up pug games, and lose.  If we did start to win, there was usually a rage quit or host DC exploit.  Then there were the times (before I wised up) that I would join "noobs only" type games so I could practice/learn, only to be stomped to death by stacked teams of experienced players.

Unranked is so, SO needed for this game.  I just can't beleive they can't or won't included it, especially since the stats are so very inaccurate anyways.

What you're telling me is making me want to play less, not more.  Back to Dawn of War II and Company of Heroes, then. I'm only sorry that I wasted 40 bucks buying this in the first place.

Relic is a tier above Gas-Powered and Stardock in terms of both game quality and community, anyway.

This isn't a request for me personally considering I've been around before day 1, but rather my support for unranked games is based upon helping newcomers learn the social/teamwork skills requried by DG without destroying someone's established rating.  Personally, I could care less about 1v1, as that is more about counterclasses and a lot less about skill (which is really needed when working as a team, whether PM or PUG).

Also, I'm sure you could get quite a few unranked games (not just 1v1) so long as you manage to find the common terribads who host them.  It's become an epidemic sadly.

If the game title says "Be Good," "No Noobs" or "skilled players only," then don't bother joining. You're wasting your time, as well as ours. And being good, doesn't mean owning the AI on single player. Huge difference. Nothing more annoying than a noob who doesn't realize they are a noob and then try and convince you otherwise because 99% of the time, they suck.

When I was a noob, I created my own noob games or simply joined other noob games until better players started to want me on their team. I learned from my mistakes and had others help me with tips. Came to the boards for builds and more tips. That's how you get better. I've even taken a few noobs under my wing, had us play agaisnt AI and fed them tips as they played. I'm far from an expert, but its way better than just annoying people by constantly joining skilled games, getting booted and ruining connections.

Like many have said in this forum, host your own games.

I don't know why this concept is so difficult for people to grasp. Host your game and title it accordingly. If your a noob put "NOOBLETS ONLY KTHX" as your title, don't come into a room that is "good players please" "Pros" "Premades Welcome" or other titles that indicate a knowledge of the game that you don't yet have, you will get kicked everytime.

I don't care how you get better, just so long as its not when you are on my team.