Why don't solo players realize the benefits of dynamic queue?

Losing Patients·1/20/2016, 9:43:55 AM·2 votes·760 views

First off, the ability to find a good team in a random ranked match and being able to queue with those same players who helped you win for your next match or even the rest of the night would outweigh any and all drawbacks it introduces. The ability to pick your teammates for a random ranked queue beyond a duo would remove all claims of "elo hell" and subjectively bad teammates. People have been complaining about these since season one and now that we finally have a realistic solution, the community has cried out against it.

Secondly, dynamic queue is great for those who don't have the time or the patience to deal with managing or being part of an official ranked team. You can network and build a list of reliable teammates to bring in the matches without having to put in the commitment required by an official team that is actively trying to climb the rankings.

The only drawback I can see is that those who are too anti-social to talk to people, those who draft, play, and leave postmatch without so much as a word, and those who are too toxic to find quality teammates. These are not the kind of people who should be catered to in the more competitive environments of the game.

Not only is the official ranked team ladder being removed because of the outcry this change caused, stripping them of their glory of rising on a ladder intended for those with the best teamwork, but those soloers who wish for only a little more consistency between teammates are going to be forced to play against those able to dedicate their entire gaming time to a single team, all because the loudest mouths are the least willing to communicate with their teammates and form some sort of network on their own.

Are people so concerned about their own personal rating that they would actively avoid playing a match where their opponents are capable of teamwork? Don't they realize that even as a solo player, having coordinated teammates will help them improve?

8 Comments

Critmaster Garen1/20/2016, 9:49:41 AM3 votes

getting pitted against a 5 man team with pre prepared strategies and voice communication with a bunch of randoms is retarded.

Poptart Evelynn1/20/2016, 9:49:41 AM2 votes

The issue is when you have one team that is all rotating extremely well together etc. Then you got the other solo guy that can't even get his team to respond and help.

That is what solo players are complaining about.

Embertine1/20/2016, 9:54:35 AM1 votes

Because not everyone wants to play with people whom are likely to rage at them when they are simply having a bad game. I prefer to play solo Q because everytime I play with someone in duo from one of my previous matches were they seen me play good, they start getting toxic if I have so much as 2 or 3 deaths.

It's much more calm and easy going for me to play with complete randoms whom I know I will likely not see again for atleast a week if not longer.

That's how it is for me anyway. I can't speak for the other solo Q'ers.

Losing Patients1/20/2016, 9:58:57 AM1 votes

So the fear is being pubstomped? So instead of using the tools to become organized, people would rather have their own queue where the word team doesn't even exist?

The Bearded Bard1/20/2016, 10:16:07 AM1 votes

Gonna have to agree. Despite one time where the premade forced the random (not me, the other random) to take the position he didn't want, I've had very little problems with dynamic queue.

Although smurfing is getting a bit out of hand already with it. When a 'silver 1' Lux goes 18/0 against a usually very consistent mid laner then confesses to being diamond just 'wanting to queue with friends' I get a bit peeved.