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I'm Silver III, and this is the story of my last queue.

Steven Mcburn·3/19/2016, 8:54:48 PM·2 votes·358 views

It started out like any queue, with a suspected wait time of 1:52.

3 minutes rolls around, I decide to get up and do some things. I had a great time. I come back, we're up to 8 minutes.

Wow. Maybe queuing for ADC or Mid is a bad choice I think to myself, naw it can't be because it's what riot's been asking me to do.

9:50 rolls around, obviously it's time to snap a quick pic to put on my twitter page. ( https://twitter.com/Steven_McBurn/status/711278918351761408 ) More fumbling around, now I'm more interested in my phone.

11:30 rolls around, time for another picture to keep those 91 twitter followers on the edge of their seats.

13:37, coolest time for the queue to finally pop. First thing I see? "Jungle plz". Guy proceeds to ban out our junglers "desired pick" and ask for jungle again. Now I'm faced with a cool decision, do I dodge? Add 6 minutes to my next queue off 13:37? That's almost an entire game forums. Of course I'm not going to dodge.

Oh, nevermind, someone else dodges after all the picks and bans come in. Well, that was a useful way to spend 3 minutes; at least it was on a different screen.

Yay! Queue pops at 3 minutes in! Oh. It's still the same exact people as before. Great. Well let's play it out I guess.

Fast forward 31 minutes of gameplay and we won! Yay, non-blue-ez because I can't blue-ez on a team that I can't ramp up to blue ez on! Fun! So much excite! Yay duo jungle spam pinging the entire match, the no support bot, and the frankly exciting banter that was happening in the chat.

Grand total of queue time and play time? 1 hour and 6 minutes. Grand total of play time? 31:03.

TL;DR Thank you Riot, there is no need for a solo queue and dynamic queue doesn't take for ever to find matches. I know that deep in the bowels of silver III it's almost impossible to find other players who are queued up because of the limited pool of players, and I'm glad that generally I have ~10 minute queues for 20 minute games this season.

8 Comments

Calabok3/19/2016, 8:59:10 PM2 votes

if you pick support/fill your impatience will be sated.

EndlessSorcerer3/19/2016, 8:57:54 PM1 votes

In the future I would recommend you use the "Print Screen" button to take a screenshot rather than using a camera. The image is significantly clearer and easier to read.

Also, low to mid Silver is probably the highest concentration of players in the game; there are plenty of other players. The main issue was probably an insufficient number of supports (since people seem to believe that they can't carry games in low ELO).

ADC and mid are probably the two most in-demand roles in lower ELO since they are traditionally the high damage "carries".

FioraWillCarry3/19/2016, 9:08:49 PM1 votes

By any chance were you in a premade ? Premades are the only time I see such insane wait times.

1st Movement3/19/2016, 9:37:05 PM1 votes

sometimes resetting que will give you instant ques

Baby Ghoul3/19/2016, 9:43:16 PM1 votes

The wait times can be wildly inaccurate I noticed. I queued for mid and top one game and got the same queue time as when I pick support mid. Obviously that's completely misleading because I ended up waiting 13 minutes. I'm mid Silver like you BTW.

When I queue for support I usually get put in a game instantly, try it if you know how to play support. You'll see why this is tied to how people view the support role in season 6.

I don't think it has much to do with a perceived ability to carry, it's just so frustrating to play support this season for a variety of reasons. I know many ex support mains who have just moved on. It's not worth the trouble anymore.