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Riot literally just humiliated themselves with their video

DefNotABot·5/31/2016, 11:27:04 PM·8 votes·841 views

Firstly, look at the like to dislike ratio. The boards represented a small % of the overall league community so it was difficult to say if the community itself preferred soloq over dynamic q and now we have a clearer picture of what the community in general thinks about dynamic queue.

Secondly, I want to point out the flaws in Riot's arguments. They said that there were indeed games where 5 man premades were vsing 5 man solo players. That itself is already incredibly unhealthy. Then they said the 5 man premades would be grouped against 5 solo players in a way that it would be an equal chance for both teams to win. But they are completely overlooking so many factors. Not every premade is using voice chat in every game. How could they possibly balance around that? Then the guy on the premade that is getting carried decides to soloq and he ruins the games for his next few teams because the system has decided that he is really good because he got carried. This is one of the biggest arguments against boosting in the first place.

And let's not forget about the fact that smurfing and boosting weren't even addressed in the first place. Both are a huge problem in lower elos. I personally smurf boost my friends all the time so it might be hypocritical of me to say but hey, the system allows it. These friends that I'm boosting clearly don't deserve their rank because when they try to play on their own, they get demoted.

And finally, Riot says that the new ranked system judges your teamwork more than individual skill. Did they think teamwork was not a key component in soloq? You were pitted with 3-4 randoms and you had to work together to beat the other team. Now there are situations where a 5 man soloq are vsing premades where the premade inherently has the advantage because they already have the aspect of teamwork down with each other while the soloq players are still left to figure out how to work together.

Am I going crazy here

9 Comments

Leblancster5/31/2016, 11:29:30 PM5 votes

Riot Socrates is a bonafide liar and moron.

Dr W6/1/2016, 12:01:33 AM4 votes

Sad day for league.

PIuie Battante6/1/2016, 12:05:42 AM2 votes

Or we could just go back to solo que where pick order was great, more then enough people would get there roles they wanted. Not to mention, individual skill really played a factor. If you really wanna play with your friends, I have no issues with Trios, but no higher. You want full 5 mans, go onto Ranked 5 Teams. Just my opinion.

Colgate Gator6/1/2016, 4:23:01 PM1 votes

As much as it sucks, there's also one point we must consider.

Look at the dislikes, they're what, 11k? let's not consider the 4k likes it has, but well, that's 11k people showing their dissaproval of their decision (let's not even factor that a lot of people have these downvoting accounts thing).

11k...Out of a million-wide playerbase, which makes us a minority, sure, a very vocal and loud one, but a minority at the end of the day.

The grand majority of the playerbase don't come into these boards, but often just log in to play either alone or with friends, so, yeah, I don't see them suffering too much over their decision, sadly.