Got my Solo Emblem, now what?

WreckingMech·Jun 29, 2016·53 votes·3,497 views

Got my emblem earlier, and I still don't understand it's function. Does it not do anything but sit on the Ladder Page?

53 Comments

Zone of EndlessJun 29, 201637 votes

Gratz on getting a sticker that means nothing!

SonicXVSJun 30, 20165 votes

It means he is not boosted / DQ abuser

.....at least ...

......i mean...

....i guess....

IceKingChernobogJun 30, 20168 votes

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Gratz on getting a sticker that means nothing!

it also means that you'll be harassed non stop by premades

ThumpinJun 30, 20163 votes

No, the premades are the ones who will be harassed now. They're the ones with the boosted-animal stamp.

SchàdenfreudeJun 30, 20163 votes

No, because if you have a premade of 3 on your team YOU are the one who is going to be harassed.

ThumpinJul 2, 20161 votes

How is that any different than what we had up until now?

ElikainJun 30, 20162 votes

Tier boarders and a EoS summoner icons also do nothing and you're fine with it. Why is a sticker suddenly such a problem?

It merely serves as identification of what kind of a player you are, rather than keeping people guessing how you achieved your ranking.

Zone of EndlessJun 30, 20162 votes

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Tier boarders and a EoS summoner icons also do nothing and you're fine with it. Why is a sticker suddenly such a problem?

It merely serves as identification of what kind of a player you are, rather than keeping people guessing how you achieved your ranking.

Because the fundamental problem with dynamic Q is it destroyed the ranked integrity. Ranked is no longer a competitive experience that it was suppose to be a now is just a "new" normal mode that give you special prizes at the end of the season.

Those tier boarders and season icon, before dynamic Q, shows what level your skill is at because you got to that tier by yourself/duo. Now it mostly means nothing just like the new ranked sticker they introduced.

ElikainJul 1, 20162 votes

Stickers now show that you're a certain type of a player, so if you earn a solo sticker and you get your boarder at the end of the season, you can rest easy that you've done it by yourself instead of calling everyone a boosted animal.

Only Play DariusJun 30, 201618 votes

Nothing. It shows people you aren't a boosted animal, but doesn't do a thing to make ranked any less toxic for you as a solo player.

Mojihito666Jun 30, 20161 votes

Where can you see it on other people ?

Never saw it in game other then my own profile

OneSmoothDudeJun 30, 20161 votes

I believe Riot said it would be shared so you could look at other players' emblems on third-party player lookup sites.

Jeddy017Jul 1, 20161 votes

I think it will take sometime before we start seeing emblems on 3rd party sites. Going to take people a bit to get it set up.

Deep Terror NamiJun 29, 20169 votes

No, it's just an indicator of your queueing preference in Dynamic Queue.

WreckingMechJun 29, 201616 votes

What's the point of that?

After looking at the boards, I thought there was more too it and I was just missing it. Ok, thanks for the info.

franticFurballJun 30, 20169 votes

What's the point of that?

There is no point.

Its a placebo, nothing more. Meaningless.

LeetriJun 30, 20166 votes

People wanted a way to show that they earned their rank themselves and now they have it.

SpeedphoenixJun 30, 20161 votes

actually they said they had some ideas to make it influence the end of season rewards in some way...

redfeenixJun 29, 20166 votes

Awesome, NOw that I know you're a solo player I'll camp you all game. I know the premades wont come help a random ;)

IceemberJun 30, 20162 votes

I mean club tags can already reveal this if they are dumb enough to queue with the same tags...

FlucksicleJun 30, 20167 votes

Sad thing is, as a jungle main I do this a lot. I try to figure out who is solo so I can gank that lane.

Ever gank a pre-mades lane? That TP comes in like .00001 second into the gank. Gank a solo lane? "I couldn't TP you were dead anyways." Chances of ganks going south when ganking a solo are minimal.

Best part is, because of this, the pre-made hates the solo even more and spends more time typing, being toxic and increasing my chances of winning.

TheThundersRoarJun 30, 20163 votes

That's one viable strategy, but I prefer to do the opposite.

When jungle and a lane have the same clan tag, I'm gonna be hanging around that lane counter-ganking 24/7. It's free kills because:

I know he's gonna try to camp his butt-buddy.
I know they're DQ-boosted and can't possibly outplay us in an actual fight.
Premades don't really have much up their sleeve other than waiting together in bushes and camping each other's lanes. Even when it goes wrong, they rarely adjust their strategy and end up being dead weight when it doesn't work.

It's surprisingly effective.

MalfiniJun 29, 20165 votes

They could have made the emblems cooler. Like a lone wolf motif emblem for solo players.

WreckingMechJun 29, 20164 votes

I honestly thought it would show up on the Splash art, like community ribbons do, when I first seen it mentioned. Don't see the point of this, but whatever.

OneSmoothDudeJun 30, 20162 votes

It's a cosmetic reward. What else do you expect it to do?

'Ugh I played ranked all year and all I got was this Victorious Sivir skin and loading screen border and player icons. Like, what else do they do, why even give these?'

Project omenJun 30, 20165 votes

For starters, you're gonna get camped to oblivion by premades.

LirikJun 30, 20164 votes

got your solo emblem ? ok nice piece of "better times" souvenir, now do like me and uninstall the game.

Athenes LuluJun 29, 20163 votes

No point, other than a ~~not that~~ pretty sticker.

purplekunJun 30, 20163 votes

the solo queue emblem is just filler, the real emblem is the other one so you can tell whos a boosted animal and shame them

AntiSkillshotJun 30, 20161 votes

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the solo queue emblem is just filler, the real emblem is the other one so you can tell whos a boosted animal and shame them

Pretty much this.

Mojihito666Jun 30, 20161 votes

Where can you see it on other people ?

Never saw it in game other then my own profile

VoidStaresBackJun 30, 20163 votes

Seems like a rather poor attitude to take, since people can also queue up with people around the same skill as them and those below their skill level. Just because someone has a premades sticker doesn't mean they are a "boosted animal".

Toplane FencerJun 30, 20162 votes

Well it kinda does. If you queue with people around your skill level, but you use voice comms, your chance of winning is still way higher. And you'll also know for sure that you won't end up with a feeder or troller or flamer.

OneSmoothDudeJun 30, 20164 votes

Playing a team game with a team doesn't mean you are boosted. There's absolutely no correlation that can be made. The reality is, toxic SQ players are just using it as an excuse to look down on people because they're salty. And now they've said it so often, reasonable people like you are starting to believe it. smh

If you queue with people around your skill level, but you use voice comms, your chance of winning is still way higher.

Uh huh. That's kind of the point. It should be no surprise that you'll have more success playing a team game as a team game.

Playing the game well does not mean you are boosting. MASSIVELY different concepts. They're simply different things, like I'm not even sure how to approach this. It would be like explaining the differences between a fire hydrant and a mortgage, which would be less easy than just telling you what a fire hydrant and a mortgage are.

And you'll also know for sure that you won't end up with a feeder or troller or flamer.

I'm not sure how you got to this conclusion, no offense. Anybody can be a feeder/troller/flamer, regardless of sticker.

The only way you can know that for sure is if you queue up with people who aren't toxic, and you don't need a sticker for that.

Toplane FencerJul 1, 20161 votes

Well, with boosted I mean: they would be in a lower elo if they were playing solo. Sure I guess boosting isn't the right word to use, but by playing with friends they can get to a higher elo than they could if they were playing solo. Also, personally, I would never queue with a troller, flamer or someone that feeds on purpose. But you're right her, I can't just assume no one would.

RianJul 1, 20161 votes

There might be a minority playing together at the same skill level but this is a weak argument for dynamic queue. The problem is this system can easily abused for boosting. Maybe boosting can be defined in different ways. For some people it's about taking money, for others get carried to an elo your are not belong to. However both things are cheating.

If you think people use it the way it should be used you also think removing every kind of anti cheater software in order to increase performance will reduce the amount of cheater. Just because it is a minor improvement for some people it does not necessary make everything better.

Give premades there own ranked system with 2,3 or 5 players and everything is fine.

Cenobite AzazielJun 30, 20163 votes

Now repeat with me: "Thanks riot, this sticker made the ranked ladder SO MUCH BETTER! I can feel all that premade hate going away..."

MelledoneusJun 30, 20163 votes

Now... we make pudding. Pass the salt.

Blue Moon WolfJun 30, 20162 votes

On the one hand, Riot is planning to do some sort of ranked rewards involving the emblems according to what the post about them said. On the other hand it's worthless till then and those aforementioned "rewards" they were talking about don't need to be connected to the emblems at all. they could very well just be given the same way without marking your account with an emblem. They are only "connecting" the emblems to possible future rewards so they feel more useful than what they currently do, which is to cause more hate between solo players and premades.

BlanchimontJun 30, 20162 votes

The next goal is to demand the return of Solo Queue of course

QuephaJun 30, 20162 votes

Yeah Exactly like your rank

OneSmoothDudeJun 30, 20161 votes

Devil's advocate: that's not really true.

Rank influences play because your matchmaking is (loosely) based on it. I.e. you will have wildly different games if you're Diamond instead of Silver, but the emblems themselves don't affect gameplay at all.

QuephaJun 30, 20162 votes

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Devil's advocate: that's not really true.

Rank influences play because your matchmaking is (loosely) based on it. I.e. you will have wildly different games if you're Diamond instead of Silver, but the emblems themselves don't affect gameplay at all.

Matchmaking does not look at rank at all, although your rank does follow your MMR

SpeedphoenixJun 30, 20161 votes

It will somewhat change your end of season rewards