Dynamic que: Riots biggest mistake!

Zecora·7/13/2016, 3:44:25 AM·107 votes·3,396 views

Yes this is basically a QQ thread and it's been done TO DEATH. But I never realized just how bad it was.

I que up for support, being a support main mostly. And boy am I happy when I see in the lobby that EVERYONE on my team is solo quer's. And then imagine my shock and horror when I see that the enemy top, jungle, and mid are a trio, and that ADC and support are duo. Then imagine my extra horror to learn that the Duo bot joined the Trio's voice call.

Well we lost. We lost so hard it's not even funny. We had zero chance. Our Darius got killed FB, and immediately tilted. Then our Jungler refused to help Darius. Then me as simple Ali support got tower dived by mid, jungle and bot.

The point is, it's unfair. I never even felt like I had a fair shake. I didn't feel like I could overcome because there simply wasn't a way for us to communicate like they did. Not to mention they have probably played together often and knew eachothers play style. How can I even compete? I have no idea what I could have done to salvage it?

@Riot. Riot, I love League. But I only play League for Ranked, to push myself and prove I'm good at the game (This game is probably the only thing I'm good at.) To be like the pro's and climb the latter, maybe make it high enough and get noticed? Who knows! Sky was the limit.

But do you know why I play so much? Because I don't have friends. I have 0 friends. I live in my house alone, I eat alone, I go to college alone and I do group projects, you guessed it, alone. So why did you do this? Why am I being pushed away from a game I love and dedicated alot of time and joy too? I don't have any friends and I can't keep the ones I make on league because it's just a video game.

I know you're probably under pressure from Tencent to increase the broad appeal of the game to people who play casually. Skin sales will increase with the desire to show your stuff to your friends. Not to mention that people are more likely to spend money on their self rather than their friends. But I still want to feel valued. League is all I had. I can't even threaten to leave for Overwatch because I can't afford it.

TL;DR. I am very sad please Riot, explain why I'm not valued.

Edit: I didn't think this would get attention. Thank you all for being polite and cordial about this.

80 Comments

NiamhNyx7/13/2016, 3:52:21 AM15 votes

Ive been solo since this queue dropped. No problems here, my normal win rate has actually went up from 49.8% to 53% and my ranked is up at 61%. Im loving this queue as a solo :P

KING ATTILA7/13/2016, 2:10:17 PM10 votes

Because screw solo players and ranked integrity! - Riot

option paralysis7/13/2016, 3:10:34 PM9 votes

I know how you feel man. I had no friends at college also and it was slowly driving me fucking crazy. I dropped out 2 years ago and trying to start out again this year but anxiety from that is still here.

Anyway, I played solo too, got diamond last season and was hyped as shit to get master/challenger this season but ever since I saw garbage q coming out, I lost all motivation and now I only play normals, which is sad...

Calabok7/13/2016, 3:56:17 AM9 votes

internet friends are over rated

Elikain7/13/2016, 8:34:36 PM7 votes

And i've gotten to play against premades as well and i always take pride and joy in beating them as a solo player. That actually means i am always looking forward to displaying my expertise and skill against a group of well organized people but that only applies to duos or trios. No matter how skilled i am as a dedicated support main, there's only so much a single champion can go against 4 others.

In my opinion, simply dropping 4 mans from our Ranked DQ experience and having these people play as a team (because if you have 4, you can certainly find one more to play ranked team games) would do a lot of good for League. I am in Diamond currently and if Diamond + players are restricted to 3 mans, everyone should have the same restriction. But to eliminate premades completely? I am not this desperate to allow myself to suck at this game or being self-critical of my own mistakes to be transferred to the existence of premades.

Cavemantero7/13/2016, 3:46:25 AM5 votes

Time to get some friends yo.

Itadaki Seieki7/13/2016, 10:26:10 AM5 votes

This isn't Riot's Worst Mistake.

I remember back in the day when people use to go Malz/Trundle top, because they could.

I remember back when I could build Sword of the Divine Twisted Fate; and have fun watching his old model get 2.5 Attack Speed.

This game use to be fun before Riot wanted to enforce the Meta Picks that people like playing.

One day; I want to return to that style, where I can go Veigar/Nasus in lane and just scale indefinitely without being judged by every other person on the team.

SlashStriker7/13/2016, 8:36:22 PM1 votes

Something that is always across my mind is with all these threads about DQ but how do you compare League of Legends which is Team Based Game 5v5 with Football that is also Team based Game in Real life? How does any of you imagine Solo Queue in real life Football?