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WHY does Riot REFUSE to understand that solo is NOT equal "DUO"? Because: money

Mephisto3·1/10/2018, 12:33:26 PM·2 votes·376 views

Patch notes 8.1 - observation: "We saw that Challenger players were facing Master tier duos pretty regularly, which ends up making the queue less competitive overall (despite the original intention back in 2016), and also punishes duos on the upper echelons of Master for winning too hard. We’ll be monitoring how much this impacts the health of the queue over the coming weeks"

Solution: "CHALLENGER TIER In Ranked Solo/Duo, Challenger players can now duo queue"

If somebody needed any further proof that the ranked queue is optimized not for fairness, but for other considerations, there it is... also, what is that supposed to MEAN anyway? Can you explain what logical statement you attempt with "less competitive overall and also punishes duos on the upper echelons of Master for winning"... is there anybody left in the LOL balance team that can reason logically?

6 Comments

Oxyrotten1/10/2018, 12:39:39 PM2 votes

I love the:

We’ll be monitoring how much this impacts the health of X

Riot always says this but it never means anything.

Timethief491/10/2018, 2:32:38 PM1 votes

Maybe cause Challenger Players want to have fun with a Duo in a competitive environment? Flex and normal is Not even Close to that. If you don't let them Duo you will see them smurf more and people complain about smurfing more.