less team bonding in new Dynamic Que
this new dynamic que is really cool and can be really helpful, but it seems like it actually cuts down on communication. Everyone has already talked about how pre-mades are killing the solo players so I'm going to talk about a different aspect of it.
Consider a game where everyone in it is a solo player. Even though everyone is completely alone and everyone is a stranger, there doesen't need to be any communication. the selection starts and everyone knows what role they are playing and picks a champ for it. then when it is their turn they pick and in the end the game starts. nobody has to say a thing to each other. They usually do say something like, "ban teemo" or "aw, my Darius got banned" But to me it doesn't help me know anyone or feel a connection to these random strangers who have to play together as a team.
In the old draft pick solo que, everyone had to talk and work together to try and figure out lanes and team comp. in a good match, someone would call support and two people call fill and everyone ends up happy with what they picked. I always just played fill. there would be games where nobody wanted support and i would happily supp and make everyone happy that they got the position they want. but there was often times where two people would fill and I could play a different role. Now i feel that if I ever pick fill, i'll end up as support no matter what. So I don't fill much anymore. there isn't any feeling of satisfaction in working with the team to figure out lanes. I don't feel like a peacemaker breaking up an argument and helping the team by saying i'll take the position nobody else wants. The old draft pick had its many problems and frustrations, but we always had to get through them in order to play the game. Yea, there were many times where people would get mad at each other, threaten to feed, lock in a role that someone else called, and sometimes the game was completely ruined before we even started. But sometimes, even though some jackass decided to go top or feed even though first pick had already called top and locked in, the rest of the team would get mad and there would be frantic last minute changes (sometimes someone would just quit) but sometimes we pulled it off. the team comp would be all weird, top had to switch to jung and the jung went adc and the adc switched to support, everyone would be cranky, but we were in the game now and we had to try and make it work somehow. the new jackass top laner would be feeding but it turns out that our mid is really Badass, and the jungler knows what to do and bot isn't feeding and jung + mid gank top and pull him kicking and screaming up to speed with the rest of the team and the enemy team starts to fall apart with them saying in all chat to report mid and we somehow win. It is a great feeling.
Now our hands get held all through the champion picking process and I kinda feel like a parent is forcing us to play nice or else. I miss the fast relationships we had to build together as a team during champion select.
although, now that I think about it. Things were usually good for me because I like to fill. If I didn't fill then I would play in way more matches where nobody wants to fill and I get stuck with a position i don't want. Even then, there would still be those games where everyone magically clicked, it was like we were perfect together with no arguments over roles and we play the game as if we had been practicing together.