duo queue broken?

deannabanana·Oct 19, 2014·2 votes·1,028 views

Playing games at silver 1 through plat 5 feels exactly the same when I duo queue with my boyfriend- like a 2v5. We also get scared if we win more than 6 in a row because when the losing starts, its like having 2-3 afks every game. WHY?! We don't have that much fun in norms and we are both of similar skill level in different roles. I feel like we get punished for winning too many when the games we win don't even feel super easy; it just feels like our teammates are playing with their monitors on and its actually a decent game :S we both love this game but the winning streaks followed by even bigger losing streaks sucks ass

2 Comments

NoMonkuOct 19, 20141 votes

I'm not too sure about how the matchmaking system works, but I'm feeling that potentially your win streaks start putting you into queue against better and better players, as it probably should. The system is trying to find you and your bf matches where you can fight at your current "level". While it is true that the afks suck, its not the systems intention. I think it's just trying to get you to your proper placement the way its been programmed to do, it just doesn't feel that great going through it. Also from what I've heard, duo queuing usually puts you into harder matchs, so this can also be part of your problem.

deannabananaOct 19, 20141 votes

Didn't literally mean afks (although we have our fair share of those too). It feels like our opponents get better and teammates get exponentially worse as we win more. How is that fair playing against 5 people of a higher skill level when we have 3 who are much lower. We've had those win streaks and then get a person in champ select who's negative and "on tilt" from being on a losing streak and we realize its time to pay for winning too many. After having 8 actual afks one day, 8 games in a row, we left and leveled smurfs to lvl 30 to play ranked (this account) and it's the same thing all over again. It feels like we get matched with people who are on losing streaks from being elo boosted to see if we can carry them vs 5 competent people. I'd rather have 3 intermediate bots that respond to pings on our team than the people we get :(