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@ Riot games, where is solo queue at?

Ward The Sky·5/9/2016, 2:02:16 PM·138 votes·3,480 views

Ranked is not fun for solo players Riot. How is it balanced when an enemy team has premade of 3-5 players while my team only has one duo bot lane? Being simultaneously ganked by 3 people at once early game is not fun, or losing team fights because everyone magically focuses you for no reason isn't fun. Let alone being trolled by a toxic premade on either of the teams isn't fun. By not showing any respect to solo queue players or giving us any word that this major issue will be addressed, you are now catering to people that only play in groups. This is no longer a game that anyone can play alone and be good at anymore. I'm no pro, so I can't simply steam roll through rank no problem solo, dynamic queue makes it so that 50/50 chance of winning is now more like 40/50 due to being in a match where the enemy team is very well coordinated via mic communication.

I used to enjoy ranked alone, I never relied on getting a duo buddy to help or play with. It is not good for business having teams of people go vs a team of solo players at all. It ruins my game experience and makes me put league down a notch when I want to play any game. It is harder than ever to carry ranked games now, it feels like I am 1v5 at some points. Normal queue should be the only queue with more than just a duo partner allowed. Ranked should strictly be duo and solo players. I don't expect a Riot response, nor do I expect upvotes, or positive comments.

Just preaching truth.[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

39 Comments

Tufio5/9/2016, 3:08:08 PM23 votes

There is no ranked, dynamic is a enchanted normal with a pointless ranking.

Xonra5/9/2016, 9:07:08 PM16 votes

No clue who is even working on it anymore. The "genius" behind the whole thing announced officially that he left Riot today. So Lyte droppes this crap on us and now he doesnt work at Riot anymore.

Means we are likely stuck with this garbage as Riot won't want to remove the last thing he worked on.

ZeeWolfZ5/10/2016, 1:30:56 AM11 votes

Riot will not bring Solo Queue back. They are putting more hours improving Garbage Queue in PBE 6.10.

Season 6: Death of League of Legends.

Proof: http://www.surrenderat20.net/2016/05/53-pbe-update-taliyah.html

(Search command) Cntr+F: LCU ALPHA

Der Lindwurm5/10/2016, 6:45:47 AM8 votes

Solo only. After the spectacular failure of their dynamic queue experiment, I don't think it should be possible for people to duo queue in ranked anymore.

Xeruon5/10/2016, 2:27:59 PM5 votes

Where's SoloQ you ask?

Same place Ao Shin, Sandbox Mode and Magma Chamber are.

con3995/10/2016, 8:00:52 PM5 votes

FUCK RIOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Karma Deified5/9/2016, 10:17:29 PM4 votes

Lyte is gone. Possibly fired? Maybe things are looking up.

PDE5 Inhib5/10/2016, 1:41:47 AM4 votes

Simple fix.

5v5 100% of the time. Teams of 2s/3s vs teams of 2s/3s 100% of the time 5 solo players against 5 solo players 100% of the time.

PbJMpP4xzk5/10/2016, 2:31:38 PM3 votes

Brace yourselves boys !! Riot Lyte is gone finaly !!!!! now we might have news on the soloQ status and not lies like Lyte was saying all the time !!!

CrimsonReaps5/9/2016, 2:14:52 PM3 votes

I fight both ways, the only thing i don't like about these posts is so many people categorize all premades as salty/toxic people who don't care what you do or think, I honestly don't care which que it is, but i think if they have both, getting into a ranked game will take as long as the game itself with people divided between solo and dynamic que.

Whopper86125/10/2016, 12:37:33 AM3 votes

They say it matches Partys vs partys but i know thats not a fact at all.. Every game is always a premade vs non

Electric Buyers5/10/2016, 1:48:11 AM2 votes

The funny thing is, that while I COMPLETELY agree with OP and would love the return of Solo Queue, the average of matchmaking and number of premades balances out in the end. Just like when it was luck weather or not you got a troll or an AFK on your team. Sure there are more variables now, but statistically, it evens out over time. For that reason, I believe Riot is like, "Naw..."

Shifue Draven5/10/2016, 10:12:26 AM2 votes

https://www.change.org/p/riot-games-we-the-players-request-that-riot-games-bring-solo-queue-back?recruiter=381682392&utm_source=share_for_starters&utm_medium=copyLink

Lupine te pine5/10/2016, 11:22:06 AM2 votes

The true problem of soloQ is the eloboost. Even me when i play with friends i need to take a smurf (im plat they were silver) and i carry easier. I dont do that to boost them only to play with them cause now play solo is really not fun and random. Random because as i said you have a lot of smurf and a lot of people a bit eloboosted (even if they dont want really...) It is also random when u play with 4 premade against 4 premade. The winner will be the one with smurf and team tactics and this is independent from yourself...

Quepha5/9/2016, 10:22:22 PM1 votes

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How is it balanced when an enemy team has premade of 3-5 players while my team only has one duo bot lane?

Because that isn't what happens. 5-mans against less than 4-mans happens 1 in 500 instances and most of those cases are at extremely high elo where players have been waiting in line for an extraordinarily long time.

Unbalanced team setups are rare enough that they're clearly outliers not worth considering.

Pandemic Punch5/9/2016, 10:11:48 PM1 votes

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5629fcd4e4b0bde5213e5e7c/t/568a2f34df40f3987cd3278e/1451896630900/

Snake Town5/9/2016, 10:10:11 PM1 votes

You do realize solo queue is never coming back right?

Smileyface5/11/2016, 2:04:16 AM1 votes

Not only should you bring solo queue back, but take out team builder in ranked. I do agree (mostly) with the banning system, but part of playing this game is learning and getting good with multiple roles you'd normally feel unfamiliar and/or uncomfortable with. I do not believe that your lane should be set in stone, because that takes the whole purpose of learning new roles out the window.

Sad Tyrant5/11/2016, 5:39:07 AM1 votes

how about, solo only and 2s,3s and 5s have dynamic where they are only matched to teams of similar build (2s and 3s vs 2s and 3s, 5s vs 5s)

PbJMpP4xzk5/11/2016, 1:50:27 PM1 votes

when i see a small poll like this i feel bad now that i know there is only the same 13 peoples around the board preaching that DynamicQ so fun LAWL