I don't now about this skill based matchmaking. I can get a lot of bad players against me in any other playlist but in Crimson doubles it's horrible. I play with a good friend of mine but the problem is that our play styles don't really fit each other and he is just a casual player. However Bungie doesn't have any intesion to compensate matchmaking to be fair to us. I'm not hosting and we still get only players with 1.5-2.5 kds and nothing less. So I don't know how well their skill based matchmaking has managed to inprove my game and me having fun with it. I'm fine playing against those kind of players when I have another "sweaty" in my fireteam :/