Thoughts on Dynamic Queue (Long)

RITO HATES USSSS DQ IS THE DEATH OF LEAGUE WE'RE LIKE SHEEP IN A SLAUGHTERHOUSE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIEEEEEEEEEE

(Hopefully that deters the peeps who downvote without clicking. Ahem)

I see all this panic about how DQ makes ranks irrelevant, its elo boosting, etc etc. All this complaining is really doing is breeding poor play. Ranked has always been a mess and I can't imagine any way it wouldn't be (short of Skynet running the matchmaking or some such), and we've always perservered through it to climb over the course of many games. Now it's just a liiiitle bit more of a mess and everyone's panicking, just because the worst case scenarios with DQ feel insulting.

I'll go over the complaints quickly:

-Diamonds can carry silvers into diamond so rank is meaningless!!!!

There's a reason this was never really a problem in soloq, and DQ doesn't change matters much. A skilled player could hardcarry 4 schmucks a bit, but eventually they'd hit a point where 4/5ths of the team are quite outmatched, and one of 2 things happens. They feed incessantly and eventually become uncarryable (believe it or not, diamonds aren't gods that can 1v9) or they play safe, don't feed, and make themselves easy to carry. The first won't get carried too far, the second is all I really ask for in ranked teammates.

Of course, now we can have 4 diamonds and one silver queued together. Same situation though, they might carry the silver a bit higher but diamonds can't consistently win 4v6 against plats. Not to mention the logistics of getting 4 diamonds to carry a silver through that many games. If half the diamonds grouped up like this to carry silvers into plat, just over 3% of plats would be carried silvers. While bad, that's a drop in the bucket compared to how ridiculous plat games already are.

-Being with/against a premade sucks!!!

If you intend to climb in ranked, you need to be able to deal with opponents having advantages. I don't care if your opponents are in a skype call and have 5 of the most (deepbreath) cancerous op braindead marksman resourceless overtuned overstuffed overloaded percent max health true energy waveclear no counterplay no skill (etc etc etc) champs in the game, simplest solution is to just play at a higher level than them and win. If you're climbing, you're definitionally a better player than your current opponents anyway, and even when you lose it's a matter of "it took this much to make me lose, and this doesn't happen often".

"But why should I have to do all that just to climb?" Because if you play on the same level as your opponents and win/lose most games based on circumstance, you're not going to climb. Either accept you're unable to win against many circumstances, or up your game and earn that next rank. I'll say it again: you aren't entitled to wins in ranked, you have to make them happen. Besides, over many games premades will make/break the enemy team as much as yours, it's really just the same as trolls and afks except not quite as decisive.

-People who are BAD are getting ranks they don't DESERVE!!! ELO BOOSTING!!! RARARARAR RENEKTON SOUNDS!!!

I see a lot of complaining that basically amounts to "people who aren't me are having a better experience". I say let them. The promotional helper is a harmless pat on the back since it doesn't change MMR, low elo is so uncompetitive that someone could jump 8 tiers with their buddies and it wouldn't change anything in the long run, and the people who have friends to play with are probably enjoying it a lot more than us solo players are inconvenienced by it. And boosting? That's nothing new, this version is just less practical. Not to mention its a great way for the boostee to learn from whoever's carrying them, so maybe they'll atleast know how to not violently feed when they start playing solo (all I ask for really).

So yeah, I'm not 100% happy about DQ or a lot of the things Riot has done recently, but let's try and be reasonable. I'm sure this will get downvoted to oblivion for not espousing the "waaaah rito hates us the sky is falling we're all gonna dieeeeeee" attitude that's popular here, but that silliness is part of why they don't listen to us on here. All this exaggerated panic causes is an excuse for people to tilt and give up on games because "top gave FB clearly boosted by DQ gg open mid".

Tl;dr: im about to drown in downvotes