Riot, Please bring back Ranked 5s for High Elo

RisenDarkKnight·6/1/2016, 9:44:09 PM·3 votes·318 views

Removing Diamond+ players from playing with groups of 5 will ruin the challenger scene, and eventually the LCS. If high elo players can't practice as a team, they will not be able to compete with the current challenger series teams. Without matchmaking for groups of 5, the only practice they can get is if the challenger series teams agree to scrim challenger/master amateur teams. The challenger series teams can simply refuse to do so, because it is not in their best interests to help their potential competition. If they instead just scrim each other, the challenger series will become completely stratified as the only people that will be able to compete with them willl be expro farm teams like C9 challenger.

Solo queue is not the best way to judge MMR of potential LCS players. Their ability to use teamwork is important too. Why not keep the ladder that gives amateur players the chance to earn their way into the LCS? With your system, their is no incentive to ever team up with a group greater than 3.

Instead, you can make high MMR matching 1000x better by making it 2 ladders: ranked 5s and true solo queue (no duos or trios). All groups of 5 premades or 5 individuals. That will be way better for matching making than dynamic queue.

You can keep dynamic queue for low elo players like me. I would suggest Diamond and below players have dynamic queue and Master+ players have solo queue and Ranked 5s only. I'm not sure exactly where the cut off would be you can include Diamond 3 and up or whatever if that's better.

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