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The thought of playing Solo Queue is exhausting, without even playing it...

RetroCop·10/30/2016, 4:15:14 PM·1 votes·736 views

I'm still trying to figure out why I just do not enjoy Solo Queue at all anymore. I've only played 5 games this season, enough to get me through HALF of my placements. With only 8 days left, I am lost on what I should do. I started in Season 1 so I've experienced every single ranked system in the game. Season 6 is, by far, the most un-enjoyable Season there has been for Solo Queue. I've been talking with close friends on starting a team, simply due to the fact that I KNOW who I'm playing with and how skillful my teammates are. Ever since Season 3, you are actually punished for doing well in Solo Queue. Based on your MMR if you are doing well, (+20-50 MMR) you are given teammates with much lower MMR to more help them build there own. Which in turn has never really worked. There have been many times I've done extremely well in lane and tried to carry the team by executing plays whenever I could, but do to the skill gap on the other player(s), these plays were irrelevant.

      Based on the evidence I've gathered from Season 3 and on, if you do well one game, you are punished the next with failing teammates. Win game 1, lose game 2. Win game 3, lose game 4. I'm sorry, but a lot of games are **_not_** carry-able. If I were to be pared with good teammates every game, I would very much enjoy Solo Queue like I used to. The Elo system in Season 1 and 2 was fine and I don't know why they changed it. This may fall on def ears, or Riot will just refuse to acknowledge these complaints, but this is my *sort of rant*, more like a statement, after so many years of playing in these ranked systems. Maybe Season 7 will bring better changes to Solo Queue. I would _**love**_ to _**lose**_ a game with great teammates than to be treated like trash by toxic players on a losing streak.

4 Comments

ChaddyFantome10/30/2016, 4:25:52 PM1 votes

U aren't playing Solo Q, thats why. You are playing "Premade Sandwich filling" Q. This wouldn't be so bad if not for the changes made in S3 and 4 where solo carrying is less if not near possible.

So u are supposed to work as a team, with people that wont even communicate with you, do stupid things because they internally agree it is a good idea even if it isn't and wont take your concerns seriously and then proceed to blame YOU at every turn because you aren't in their little buttmunch click. It's horrible.

Can't wait for SoloQ to come back next season.

MR KIMCHI SENPAI10/30/2016, 4:52:28 PM1 votes

I don't remember the ranked system being this bad in Season 3. I have to say the quality of games used to be much higher. Before, at least I could somewhat know what to expect in every tier.

Right now it's a fucking circus wherever you go.

I play at mid gold now, matched with mid silvers and mid plats, which is absolutely retarded.

We are talking about a mix of 56th percentile players with 7th percentile players. Then you have the dynamic queue, which lets players to be misplaced. Add the toxic players and the smurfs, then the balance of these games become completely unpredictable.

I don't think solo queue coming back will change anything itself. A lot of other parts of the game are to blame but I suppose it would better place players where they should be. Basically, all it's going to do is make a plat player plat and silver player silver, whereas right now, plat could be a boosted plat player and silver could be an underrated silver player. But this doesn't really hit the crux of the issue.