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Okay... The real story about draft... and normal games...

Parkway Drive·11/9/2016, 2:38:13 PM·1 votes·1,225 views

It's very basic... and here's how it goes.

  1. Everyone has MMR for the different types of ques (riot can confirm somewhere but i know its true).

  2. New "flex" is the same thing as "draft" but:

  • flex changes who you can play draft with (rank distribution constraints)
  • It displays this MMR you probably didn't even realize you had as a rank(as seen in soloQ)

  1. Your "draft" rank will now be reset according to your ranked mmr and placements, so consider it a hard reset to your "normal draft" MMR but taking your current rank as the baseline.

  2. Go play flex and stop thinking of it as ranked... its literally just going to be a rank there instead of being hidden now that I'm sure 80% of you check and look up your opponents when in normal games currently anyway (i know i do, esp after i notice im either facerolling normals or someone is playing really well, brings out the curiosity).

  3. in the long run, normal drafts and flex is the same thing just with a display of your rank and restrictions (that should be removed IMO) that allows the current ranked dynamic to continue.

end note: what you should be caring about is that solo que is not actually solo... its solo/duo... therefore there will still be boosting and manipulation and heavier influence on games. No one (unless they're practicing like many of you keep complaining about) will be playing flex duo Que to grind a rank unless its to practice strategy etc, which makes the point everyone is crying about.

also, it would be different if they made it so you couldn't solo que in flex... but you can so yeah i don't understand the misconception of the removal of draft normal que.

15 Comments

Oglaf11/9/2016, 3:25:45 PM2 votes

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this is how normals work now? i get stuck with premades all the time and against them.

and you didnt read everything... flex is literally the new draft but it gives you a rank its literally the only difference that is significant (that and who u get matched and can match up with)

And that's a pretty significant fucking difference, m8. Look at my latest game today:

"FIrst time new Katarina".

Cost us the game by feeding like a bitch. That's something that is bad enough in Normal, but in a forced Ranked environment where it WILL affect your "official record"? Nuts to that, Riot! EUNE is done and over with at this point, and I hope Riot realizes that after ruining the server, it is only proper to offer us a free transfer to EUW.

Parkway Drive11/9/2016, 2:42:07 PM1 votes

Like holy shit lol, im reading through peoples complaints about draft and am i off my rocker being the only person that is grasping that in the long run its actually better?

-you get to practice -get a practice rank along with it, matching you consistently against opponents of same skill level -get to play with friends

-no one will take this serious expect at extremely top %'s other than that, flex will be just like normal draft but will display your mmr as a rank rather than completely hidden

Oglaf11/9/2016, 2:46:23 PM1 votes

Easy for you to say.

Freakin' "Get to keep Draft"-privilege.

Sohleks11/9/2016, 3:33:00 PM1 votes

You're right they want to remove draft to make room for the new flex queue.

We're going from 1 solo playable ranked and 2 solo playable normals to 2 solo playable ranked and 1 solo playable normals.

With norm draft kinda dead on some servers already (disabled on OCE) they are trying to combine multiple underplayed queues into something sustainable.

But normals mmr isn't gonna affect your flex queue placement. Your solo queue/ranked 5 mmr does. Normal draft and blind normals use the same mmr # actually