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Please consider pure solo queue games:

iHerbalist··4 votes·810 views

As a player who isn't wanting to micro manage friends lists - or hopping into external voice chats to gain an edge in ARAM... I find it pretty brutal the advantages you get from non-solo queuing.

A little box to click off: solo queue - solo but would queue with another group - group queue options would be amazing. So those who don't care about being grouped with others and would get a quicker game... or those who want to ONLY fight against solo queued players instead of against groups would be phenomenal.

I'm just sick and tired of getting pure owned by groups that obviously play together - and poof 4 of the 5 players instantly re-queue all at exactly the same time leaving the chat lobby on their way to their next victims.

It's been a pretty brutal week in both ARAM and Hexakill where basically now it's nearly to the point that I have zero options but to team up - and do what I actually hate doing: micro managing friend lists, downloading and using voice chats... all of that junk that goes into it - just to be EQUAL of a player to those who I'm facing.

Man - I just want to chill and have a friendly non-competitive game... just all random - against SOLO queued players like myself... I hate the loss ratios lately - I much prefered 50-50 that I'm no longer getting because this community is opting to group queue more and more.

Anyways.

Let the down voting begin I guess. But just consider what I want: fair play - chill environment - solo players vs solo players. An EVEN playing field for everyone involved. That's it. That's not too much to ask for.

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redniwediS2 votes

I actually got accused of being part of a premade during an ARAM last night... and while there was a premade I wasn't a part of it. Unless you are actively looking it up (which you can do if you really want to) there is no way to tell if a group is premade or not outside of them telling you.

disregardable1 votes

I don't really see it as a problem. I don't really see a lot of groups, and the groups I do see aren't particularly better than myself or the other team. You're right though, it'd be nice to give groups a separate queue. It's annoying when you get that premade that expects you to support, as first pick.

AtheosisX1 votes

There is a solo/duo queue and a team queue. What's the problem?

iHerbalist1 votes

There is a solo/duo queue and a team queue. What's the problem?

They don't work the way that I would like them to work, do they. If I click solo queue I want to only play against other solo players ONLY in ARAM. (That's pretty much my permanent "go to" game type.)

It's the most chill - supposedly - game type we get. And in the last month I have noticed how more and more group comps are in there.

I don't mind losing to obvious comp mismatches. That's completely part of ARAM and the enjoyment of it.

When you get obvious premades - where you can really tell the team is moving completely cohesively - and no NOT just some randoms happening to work well together... you can tell the difference when everyone on the team is working on the cutting edge just so insanely cleanly - obviously on external speech systems and grouping many games together... it's just simply not fun. That's not why I play ARAM. I don't play it to need to develop friends lists and take the game insanely seriously... and download speech mods etc... and play at X time of day to be able to hop in with the group to "pwn the poo out of nubs." Even completely as a team popping in to the spawn area to extend the game... everyone 100% as a group do it in a unit... - and once the carnage is over, and the victims victimized enough - they all pop out at exactly the same moment when their group queue is created.

"You only just think they are premades" - ok? Prove it then. Provide a legitimate 100% solo ONLY queue. You would support this since you obviously think there are zero premades... so who cares then? Support the idea. You have no basis not to.

Not to mention the surrender timer in ARAM is set ridiculously high... Hexakill is 15 mins and that has 2 lanes... where you choose your team and fate... ARAM you have no choice with comp mismatches and premades yet you have to suffer the harassment with no choice. Leave game? Reported. No choice but to take it in the pooper.

AtheosisX1 votes

I agree that the surrender timer is too long in ARAM, but I'm still not seeing what the big deal is with premade teams. First of all, I'm pretty sure the matchmaker prioritizes team vs team matches, and in the cases where that doesn't happen ARAM is not a mode where premades have a huge advantage.

Drakoniak1 votes

I agree that the surrender timer is too long in ARAM, but I'm still not seeing what the big deal is with premade teams. First of all, I'm pretty sure the matchmaker prioritizes team vs team matches, and in the cases where that doesn't happen ARAM is not a mode where premades have a huge advantage.

OP is emphazing that when he presses to be matched SOLO he should be matched with other players that Pressed SOLO and no premade teams. Hope this helps you understand OP point.

AtheosisX1 votes

Oh I understand. I just don't get why it's such a big deal.

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