Riot really needs to stop doing things to make the game even worse for solo players

Miku Lv99·5/14/2016, 1:25:14 AM·2 votes·595 views

Dynamic Queue was already probably the worst thing Riot ever did, but now they've added even more stuff to make things even worse. Some examples are:

  1. Now everyone can see when buffs are about to be up. This means that some premade with good communication will easily go contest it and often win, but if you are a solo player you'll much more likely get screwed as not enough teammates will help you so that you'll be outnumbered if you go to contest the buff and likely lose. They also seemingly made the buffs more powerful so that you'd get screwed by even more.

  2. Vision wards have 4 HP and regenerate. This means that contesting them is even more important. It just sucks to play bot lane if you're not on the blue side of the map now. If you try to ward the tri bush, both of their bot laners will come over, destroy your ward, and go back to lane, and you won't even get a chance to clear their vision ward since your lane partner probably didn't do anything. And with the regenerating HP thing, it's even harder to clear their ward and it just makes the solo experience feel even more frustrating in a really lame way that doesn't seem like it otherwise adds anything of significant value to the game.

I feel like Riot is making balance changes just to encourage people to queue up with more other people rather than even trying to balance the game with some of these. And IMO this needs to stop and the game is just getting worse as they add more things like this.

2 Comments

KillerKell5/14/2016, 1:36:21 AM3 votes

So... let me get this right...

you are blaming Dynamic Queue for Solo Players not employing Team Work?

Interesting.

Your Team Mates won't help contest the Buff that they also can see is about to come up... why? They can see it, right? You can see it? Everyone can see it? So Dynamic Queue isn't an Excuse, that's just Piss Poor 'Team Work' by your Team. Did you communicate with them?

Why didn't your Lane Partner do anything? That has nothing to do with Dynamic Queue, that has everything to do with a lack of Team Work.

What you miss is that Dynamic Queue is stressing Team Work... which, in a Team Game, is a GOOD THING.

You can't blame Dynamic Queue for people not rotating to Buffs, or for people not helping Clear Wards. No Queue can fix or change that. That's just lousy players not communicating and playing AS A TEAM.

Blame Bad Team Mates for those, not the Queue.

Rand0mH3r0X5/14/2016, 1:47:34 AM1 votes

I wanted to DV because this is a rant, but, you've presented it in a way I can agree. Interesting. http://i0.wp.com/edthemusical.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/close-up-nod.gif?resize=350%2C200