Ya did it. SoloQ is finally coming back.

ModAcademy Kayn··11 votes·618 views

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/competitive/riot-pls-ranked-pls-2017-season-ranked-changes

Also some more context from Ghost Crawler.

> We thought that we could solve a lot of the pain that solo players were feeling in Dynamic Queue. For example, there was a misperception that an enemy premade had a huge advantage, even though we knew statistically that we could create a fair match. We also suspected that some of the hate for DQ was coming because queue times were long for some players and because folks weren't getting their primary roles often if ever.

But after mitigating or downright solving a lot of those problems, the remaining concerns that we couldn't easily solve were 1) the feeling that ranked loses legitimacy with "boosted animals," and 2) some players just don't want to deal with partial premades on their or the opposite side.

We resisted turning on two queues because we feared we would have starvation leading to longer queues, especially on some smaller regions. But because we couldn't solve the 2 problems I mentioned above, we're now going to try having two queues. We have some clever solutions that we hope will keep queue times in both queues reasonable, but we'll just have to see how it goes.

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oSEXYPLATYPUSo4 votes

issue is people are still gonna try to get boosted and its not really gonna effect anything ... people are still gonna cry about trolls, afks, bad players, bad match making...

no matter what riot does the community cries

420 grams2 votes

True. The biggest example is URF. Nobody is ever happy on that

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

the entire board are filled with threads of people bitching and crying nonstop... someone gets beat by a fed viegar when he is full ap 6 items and game is 35+ mins in and they say his kit and play style is toxic and has no counter play... if you let nasus get 500 stacks and full build he can do tons of damage too.. the counter play is to camp and kill them and end the game and dont drag it out til every one is lvl 18 and have full items cuz then any advantage you have is nullified.

it never ends...

another thread right now is asking how to deal with people flaming that you suck

i posted in response that if they are in game with you , meaning they got matched with you they are on a similar skill level... so if you suck... and they are matched with you (similar skill level ) then that means.....

does any one think ?

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

does any one think ?

.

THINK

What is this word, and why does it scare me?

oSEXYPLATYPUSo2 votes

It scares most Americans

Vistha Kai3 votes

I ain't going to believe it until I see it in my game.

The last time I heard something like that was the infamous "Solo Queue is coming back in a week".

ModAcademy Kayn3 votes

"Solo Queue is coming back in a week". Was a tweet from the Riot Support Twitter. This is an actual post you can go read, made by the same people who put in Dynamic Que in the first place.

There's a large difference.

Vistha Kai1 votes

Riot Support Twitter?

So that's how you name the head of all the player behavior-related teams?

GayFluffyUnicorn1 votes

It was a post by Riot socrates and then by lyte. Stop it. SoloQ was promised (a pure solo Q) and every LoL related website posted it as factual since it WAS supposed to be.

ModAcademy Kayn1 votes

I'm having trouble finding the original tweet, but if you could share the post by the both of them, that'd be great too.

GayFluffyUnicorn1 votes

No tweet. Post on the boards by lyte and lyte was kinda the father of dynaQ and his head roll for it (atleast that's what i guess). here: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/miscellaneous/HGblb9fH-the-2016-ranked-season-updates-on-dynamic-ranked-and-your-feedback

We need to work out a few implementation details, especially for smaller servers before we can roll out the revamped Solo Ranked alongside its Dynamic sibling. Because Dynamic Ranked is an indisputably better experience for playing with friends, the Ranked Teams queue skips the 2016 season while we begin work to integrate the full team experience into Dynamic Ranked. Expect more details about improved organized play later in the year. To be clear, ranked queues for the 2016 season are:

Dynamic Ranked
A few weeks after season start: Solo Ranked
Curious Kat1 votes

Thank freakin god, maybe now i can actually get back into ranked on BOTH of my accounts, id'e like to see if i can get this one to plat 1 like my other, but dynamic queue made that imposssssssssssssible. Now i'll have a chance again without forming a premade!

FioraWillCarry1 votes

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Thank freakin god, maybe now i can actually get back into ranked on BOTH of my accounts, id'e like to see if i can get this one to plat 1 like my other, but dynamic queue made that imposssssssssssssible. Now i'll have a chance again without forming a premade!

The disappointment a lot of people are gonna feel when they think SoloQ is gonna net them a higher tier and they still cant climb lmao. Not saying you are one btw, but a lot of people think they can't climb because of DQ.

Curious Kat1 votes

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The disappointment a lot of people are gonna feel when they think SoloQ is gonna net them a higher tier and they still cant climb lmao. Not saying you are one btw, but a lot of people think they can't climb because of DQ.

Yeah sad, but true, i just mean i got really tired of the premades blaming everyone but themselves. They'd troll more times than not, ping you to go in, flash away and flash their mastery and shit, i just got tired of toxic premades and stuff which is why i stopped playing it. They made it completely unenjoyable even in a win you still felt you lost.

XinZhao2WinNhao1 votes

No it's not. Solo/duo Q is coming back. It's different from a real soloQ. Duos are still not fun to play with.

Yeah it's better than dynamic queue but it could be better.

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