I'm honestly more apprehensive about 5-man soloq rather than 4-man, and here's why

Totalis··1 votes·339 views

being the solo in a 4-man premade is the most toxic thing league has to offer, we all know this. There is not a worse feeling than getting trolled and or flamed at by 4 other people on your team, even when you're in the right, just to find out they're a four man premade.

I remember at the end of season 3 when no one had yet to discover the incredible op-ness that was Kha'zix, I was playing him and built Ravenous Hydra. At the time, hydra was not the meta build on kha'zix (even though literally a month later it WOULD BE) and when they (my team, who, I would later to find out was - you guessed it - a 4-man pre-made) all saw it they started flaming the shit out of me, even though I performing well. It was a miserable experience, and we ended up losing, which only further invited the wrath of my toxic teammates upon me.

With ranked next season, however, I feel like it's going to be different. Finding 3 other people who would willing to troll and or surrender just to screw over 1 guy in a ranked game is going to be so difficult it's very unlikely it will ever happen. A single troll is willing to lose a ranked game, but a total of FOUR in one game? Not likely.

What I have a problem with is ranked soloq with a 5-man premade. I mean, it doesn't even make sense. We have an entire queue for this, it's called ranked team 5v5. Why? because it's where 5 people play ranked together as a team! Your Individual rank should determined by how you play when you go in solo; as an individual. How does it make any sense to have an entire team's performance with people who already knew each other determine each person's individual rank? Well, it's simply really. It doesn't. I believe that 95% statistic they gave us about 5-man facing another another 5-man, but that doesn't change the fact that EVENTUALLY you'll be agaisnt a 5-man premade when you yourselves ARE NOT. So not only are you put at a disadvantage, each of those people on the other teams' individual rank is getting affected even though they came in as a team together.

I don't know, I just think it's bullshit to have individual rank be affected when you queue up already as a 5-man premade.

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Serevas1 votes

I know that a ton of people were asking for ranked team builder, but this wasn't even close to what they wanted.

I think this form of ranked is going to be a complete disaster for your typical solo queue players. I know I don't have many people to play the game with anymore, and It's going to be damned difficult to climb when you're pug group gets matched against a 5-man who are all in some form of voice chat. You're team is going to get butchered in that situation.

I'll take the old system with a few of the new modifications preventing instalock trolling, over choosing a specific role any day. Add to all of that solo carrying your games are going to get much more difficult with the changes, I'd really hate to see what anything below platinum looks like next season.

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