bronze 5 can't play ranked in this new draft. please answer riot
Previously in the old ranked draft mode, games were about 1~2 minute waits.
In this new mode, my gold smurf recieves around 2~3 minutes waiting time before getting a game. This is reasonable.
Now I have a bronze 5 account (my first account I had when I first played and haven't touched for a long time) and the que times were too long and unplayable.
If I que up for ANY other role besides support/fill, I would get wait times of over 10 minutes. I decide to select "fill" thinking that would be the fastest way to que up for a game. It still takes 10 minutes or more for a game (only to get multiple dodges).
Now dodges aren't the problem as that would exist in every elo bracket. However, it doesn't seem fair that the b5 players need to wait an additional 1015 minutes for the next game every time someone dodges while gold players only need to wait 23 minutes.
Why does these lower depths of the elo pool suffer such long wait times? No adc's and supports. Let me explain. Adc's require good positional mechanics and don't have the tankiness to afford making a mistake. You make a mistake, you get blown up. Now every adc in every elo bracket will occasionally make mistakes but at lower elo's there is very few people that can peel for you. (they don't have the awareness to see what's happening to their adc's, they are too concerned on their own champion and dishing dmg out) basically adc's aren't very forgiving for bad players and get left on their own. Adc's will die often making that role unenjoyable for the lower players.
Supports have it the worst in b5 because like adc's they get blown up if they aren't positioned correctly (unless its a tanky support like braum/ali). They are forced to play with a pool of bad adc's. They don't have the wisdom to understand when to freeze or when to bully a lane. And they can't carry games... which is probably the biggest factor when it comes to newer players in how enjoyable a game can be. It's definietly the most stressful role at b5 because both the support and adc will have a shallow game knowledge. This inevitably leads to arguements like ("why aren't you freezing?" "why aren't you bullying the enemy adc when the enemy support has recalled"). Basically the more you know about the game, the more you can understand how other players want to be playing. At b5 you know so little that the two bot laners will be sharing different game visions/plans and this leads to disagreements and misplays.
This new game mode is fine where there is a good distribution of roles. There are enough players in gold to want to play support so wait times are drastically shorter. in b5, no one does. I have played 10 games of fill so far and I have gotten 9 support, 1 mid. And despite me queing for the "fill" role, I still had to wait an average of 15~20 minutes per game. I know that most people here on the boards don't care about b5 but I just wanted to point out that if a game mode can't suit every elo bracket than it shouldn't be there. I suggest the old draft mode for at least b5 cause waiting 20 minutes for a game (where i have seleted "fill") is absolutely disghusting. This also has the benefit of making bronzies play multiple roles which should open their views and knowledge of the game... something essential if they are to move to higher divisions.
tldr: que times are way too high in bronze 5. 15 minutes for a chance of a game is ridiculous.