Dynamic Q triply punishes Solo players

UnwardiI··4 votes·410 views

You're punished in that you get less rewards than people who group. Less key drops, less IP etc.

You're punished in that you are playing with an unfair handicap, that being that you are not in voice coms with your team and the enemy probably are. Pings are not the same. Text chat is not the same. They can supplement good voice coms, they can't replace the tactical edge they provide.

But then finally, when you do get grouped as a single with a trio or quad, your own ladder climbing is punished because you get placed with a lower mmr ranked team than you in order to compensate for their imbalanced advantages. So now I have to play AGAINST someone of a higher level than me, while playing next to players much worse than me... And even if I win, I get barely any LP for the win.

That's a trifecta of fucking over your solo players Riot... The same players who YOU NEED in order to make this dynamic BULLSHIT even function, let alone function correctly, which is still doesn't... at all... by YOUR OWN admission. I'm sure you don't wonder anymore why people are madder about this than literally any other thing you've done, I'm sure you all realize the enormity of the fuck up this entire experiment has been... I'm just here to remind you that it still needs to be cleaned the fuck up.

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FatADCsMatter3 votes

THIS ALL DAY. honestly, i hate having to wait for players and wait for invites. I play and climb the ranked ladder doing strictly solo Q. i like to listen to music instead of chat between teammates, and i enjoy being able to improve myself from what im doing, not "improve as a team" I enjoy the solo play a lot more in this game tbh. and the thing i dont get is you guys amp up all this "group as 5 gameplay" but when you hit diamond youre not allowed to queue with more than two people. but thats another story. as far as keys go, i dont feel its fair that a solo player like me has a lesser chance of picking up one, than a guy that has 4 other teammates. Im not very social, and i dont really like meeting new people. I just feel the system is really unfair and keeps us away from solo Q. aaaand just to add, thats why a ton of world of warcraft players quit, they didnt want to have to be in a guild and follow their rules, rather than solo Q a group for dungeons and instances.Amumu

a w1ld bulbasaur2 votes

Like this hasn't been said about 100 times already, maybe even more.

UnwardiI1 votes

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Like this hasn't been said about 100 times already, maybe even more.

Of course it has, I'm just here to remind everyone that nothing has changed.

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