I now understand why everyone hated flex Q or dynamic Q

Arcade Andrew··3 votes·490 views

I just got paired with a flex four, and was the odd man out, and I didnt realize that until we started losing then they proceeded to blame me instead of the 4/12 varus they Q'd with

needless to say I was constantly harassed blamed etc, and the enemy team bought it and im pretty sure i got reported 9 times.

now I understand why everyone hates it so much.

12 Comments

DrCyanide4 votes

I just got paired with a flex four

No you weren't. Flex 4-man queues don't exist.

Jinzo Torrance2 votes

But you can't queue as 4? Wha...

Hyperiön2 votes

Probably in norms.

Quepha1 votes

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Probably in norms.

It was a ranked game, you can see it in his history.

Azure Hamster1 votes

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But you can't queue as 4? Wha...

4s assume enough players come into the queue alone. They said they would enable 4s if enough solo players were around for the queue to function.

Caitlyn

Quepha2 votes

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4s assume enough players come into the queue alone. They said they would enable 4s if enough solo players were around for the queue to function.

Caitlyn

Parties of 4 are still disabled in NA.

Azure Hamster1 votes

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Parties of 4 are still disabled in NA.

I did not say they were enabled. I said they said they would enable them if there were enough solo players for it to work.

Caitlyn

Lexyy2 votes

Took you long enough.

Azure Hamster1 votes

I love Flex. I loved Dynamic. I still play Flex, even if I'm playing alone.

Caitlyn

Quepha1 votes

What a shining example of how wrong people are about how parties hurt their experience. You had a bad game and were looking for a boogeyman so you determined that the rest of your team MUST be a group of four even though it is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO QUEUE AS FOUR RIGHT NOW IN FLEX.

You picked Teemo, you should expect by now that picking a squishy top laner with almost no team fight potential is likely to tick off your team, especially when you either pick him into a bad matchup or blind pick him so the enemy can counter pick you. Teemo is supposed to be a counterpick when you know he can destroy his lane opponent and make it impossible for them to farm up.

Aptest1 votes

to be honest with you, while i did have this experience from time to time, I do not find it to be common enough for me to generalize about flex q in this way.

i try to avoid flex q for other reasons. namely that i feel more isolated and less in control over the game.

This feeling may be substantiated (i think it is) or it may not be. but it takes away from my enjoyment of the game nonetheless.

MagicFlyingLlama1 votes

This is not even possible. It also happens in every game mode regardless of queue type or premades. "Blame a random person to shift eyes off yourself" is a tactic as old as humanity, and possibly older.

Shit, some actual monkeys do this. To say nothing of a few species of fish.

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