The Secret of Dynamic Queue that Might Screw You

Randomonium··6 votes·1,054 views
2016 Season Update

You'll still need to be of similar rank to your queue-buddies, and the system is designed so that groups will almost always play against similarly grouped opponents (so if you're in a premade five, there's a 95% chance you'll run into another premade five), but now you'll be able to compete the way you want to.

Anyone else have a huge problem with this comment? Yeah, 95% of the time a 5 man premade will go up against another 5 man premade. So what about the other 5% of the time? We all know how powerful communication is in league which means that in these 5% of games the premade will be highly, highly favored, especially since queuing with multiple people doesn't increase your MMR anymore.

In a system where most people hover around 50+/-5% win rate, this 5% becomes a HUGE factor. It can single handedly be the difference between you climbing in rank or falling, punishing people who don't have lots of friends that play league or who are of a much higher/lower ranking then their friends. Furthermore, the ability to queue with 2, 3 or even 4 of your friends means that poor players will be able to climb much higher than their actual skill level as long as they have a good group of friends to carry them.

TL;DR I truly fear that solo queuing will negatively impact your ranking in Season 6. Also, dynamic queue will make individual skill less important to climb in ranked because you can queue up in a premade to carry you.

8 Comments

Dominick Destine3 votes

Riot doesn't care... or at least that is what their behavior is showing.

001100011 votes

Sad but true.

R.I.P Non-Team Ranking being meaningful 2016

Randomonium1 votes

I'm still holding out that Riot will put the breaks on this terrible idea. There's some smart people there I don't know how they can't see all the problems with it.

001100011 votes

Yea, me too. I did see a red, that said, things weren't going as expected and if they didn't pan out, that they do have a back up plan.

Ahristocats1 votes

5% chance means in 100 games you have 5 games fucked up

but lyte said that a new queue will be added for solo players

JQKAndrei1 votes

Queue up as 5 and go ranked, you'll be surprised about how difficult matches start to be. And those 5% of the games won't be "free wins" they'll go against a 4+1 team, and nothing tells you that the solo guy can't carry in a 4+1 team.

Randomonium1 votes

They actually never said the other 5% will be going up against a 4+1 team, that's just your assumption. That said, I think Riot has resolved the issue with the most recent post Lyte put out.

Gimpy891 votes

I agree with this. 200%

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