Duo Que's in Ranked

IceCecil··2 votes·598 views

I have noticed an interesting event, since I have reached gold, that seems to occur a lot, a platinum or higher player duo'd with a silver or lower player. No big deal right? Wrong! From my personal playing experience the difference in skill level from platinum gold is very minimal to almost non existent in most matches, but the difference in skill level between silver and gold is huge. I won't go into the numbers but under the last time I checked roughly 70% of LOL players are in silver or bronze, about 25% are in gold and platinum leaving only 5% in diamond and above. So here is the issue that occurs for me. I will que up solo in a ranked match ( i am gold tier) there will be 2 other gold tier players and then a duo que with one being platinum and one being silver. The silver player is in a match where he is playing well outside of his skill level almost always leads to a lost game. The platinum player is playing at his own skill level still (not above it) leaving one team with a player in a match that is too high for their skill level and in essence that game becomes a 4v5. I have been on both sides of this( the team with the messed up duo and the team that does not) and it is unfair for everyone involved.

My idea is simple, if nothing else, and realistic. Make it so that players can not duo with someone who is more than one tier apart from them. As in a gold player can not duo with a bronze player but they can duo with a silver player. It wouldn't solve everything because you will still have people playing in a matches outside their skill level but it will not be nearly as frequent and the difference in skill will be less than what is happening right now.

Thoughts?

5 Comments

KMannnnn12 votes
Joe Dredd2 votes

you have no idea what you're talking about.

FHMarshy1 votes

You CANNOT duo with people with a whole rank apart from you. You can only get people with either plat+gold or silver+gold, you CAN'T have silver + plat. it's impossible.

Another attention whiner :P

FHMarshy1 votes

BTW. It says you are Silver 4....How are you gold? http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=icececil

IceCecil1 votes

Different account, and ok so riot says that is not possible to be two tiers apart but then I had a player on my team with the border for being platinum and another with the border for being silver and they were a duo how is that possible? also when I looked the two summoners up they were listed as one being platinum 3 and the other silver 2. Like yep I see riot said one thing but it is still happening. Perhaps an error in the system idk, but it has happened several times since the patch that supposedly fixed that was released

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