Upset about ranked solo/duo removed

Quietscream·11/4/2015, 12:16:46 AM·61 votes·7,678 views

I really dreamed of having SOLO ONLY ranked Queue. But now removing duo to make it a completely free to group up ranked Q makes me really upset. The worst games of solo Q I had the chance to play were with duo queuers, now imagine being the only man with a 4 premade in a ranked game. This encourages teamwork? There's already plenty of places people can group up, we had 1 queu that was almost ''fair''. I can't find the arguments, I am probably way too upset to make up any. I played 90% of all my thousands of games through 5 seasons in solo Q, removing it will leave me homeless, sad and slightly salty.

Anyone else hates this idea? I'd much rather have a solo only Q instead, solo/duo was a queue showing solo performance inside a game with strangers. Has riot had too many players complaining that they deserved higher than that, that the game was about team play and their teammates were not good enough for them? I do not understand the reason, nor do I want. I just want a place where I won't feel overpowered by duo/trios/quad trolls on a roll to ruin your day. It will happen although they get more losses than you, your brain takes heavy damage until you realise they were actually all grouped up in a plot to put the blame all on you.

So much more unbalance will come out of this queue, people who use voice chat, people who use minority language as first language, people who are shy or have low self esteem, people who don't make friends easily, who prefer to play alone, people who like individual performance and don't want to wait for his 4 not really friends player to come and be ready to queue, people who just want a ''fast'' game and practice his own mechanics, knowledge, reactions, practice time.

I really hope this idea will be shot down.

55 Comments

Hayaishi211/4/2015, 12:22:21 AM20 votes

Yeah pretty much.

I play Soloqueue because it's solo. If i wanted to play with multiple people i'd go play Ranked 5s.

Mike Hunts Toxic11/4/2015, 12:42:38 AM12 votes

ya there is enough 4 man trolls in normals, the amount of 4 man trolls who look you up and see you are in promo and /ff on purpose will be so f*cking stupid.

Vera11/4/2015, 2:05:31 AM10 votes

The most reasonable solution would be...

Solo Queue Party Queue (groups of two or three, no fours allowed) Fives Queue

Everyone's happy that way.

aGentleGrabnFist11/4/2015, 12:58:49 AM9 votes

Rip ranked it'll be even more toxic now

Mokiller511/4/2015, 3:44:15 AM7 votes

Actually, l kind of like the idea of teaming up with 2-5 man premades in ranked. Some of my best games was when I would get up with 2-3 other guys in a 3 or 4 man premade and carry the one random to victory. its a lot easier to carry with 3 somewhat good/trusting players than it is with 4 other randoms. It also goes vice-versa, if I am the noob random with a 4 man premade, I do expect them to carry me if they are on point in team coordination.

The only downside I see is the toxicity, in which all 4 gang up on you for sucking. But that happens in most ranked games anyways so I don't really see a negative side to this.

Feel free to discuss or criticize.

Quietscream11/4/2015, 12:36:29 AM6 votes

UNIFY OUR VOICES!

t0ad511/4/2015, 12:53:29 AM5 votes

This is the worst thing from them to date.... and, lately, that is saying A LOT.

Dominick Destine11/4/2015, 1:00:02 AM4 votes

What the @#*$&%

If anything they should remove the ability to duo queue, not increase to quad queue...

Niaphim11/4/2015, 12:26:45 AM4 votes

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/4jKU71cH-so-in-season-6-solo-players-will-be-matched-withagainst-2-5-man-premades I've tried to make up a list of arguments against, feel free to take/add anything from/to this thread. It would be nice to have a unified thread where we can discuss this

Quietscream11/4/2015, 3:54:23 AM4 votes

Let's get real, people who are for this idea barely plays any solo Q or wants to blame their low solo Q rating on the current system.

Bard in a Diaper11/4/2015, 3:20:48 AM3 votes

playing solo is gonna be even worse now, any sane people will just be picked up a in a premade since theres no penalty for it apparently. just gonna leave you matched up with a shitload of trolls if you ever feel like playing solo

YumaS2Astral11/4/2015, 1:05:24 AM3 votes

There was a time I was still playing at NA on my main account, that I was playing a normal game as Aatrox - a player then selected Riven and started to complain I didn't said at time that I was going top, even though I did, in fact, said that, and he was below me during the champion select, that is, he must have waited before selecting a champion.

He then started to troll, getting all of my farm and experience. Then I discovered they were a 4 man premade because they were defending each other.

Incredibly, we were winning the match. But then, when we were about to destroy the enemy Nexus, those 4 man premade started a surrender vote - and we lost because they didn't wanted me to win.

Since then, I'm afraid of getting premades during my normal games. Imagine if that was possible to happen in ranked games.

SeveredKidsFeet11/4/2015, 3:02:58 AM3 votes

I seem to be worried for a different reason then most, but I am also hopeful. I play at very odd hours for my timezone, so finding someone to queue on my friends list is near impossible. What I really enjoy is Riot's incentive for group ranked. Usually in SoloQ you will only get 1 troll, and very seldom you get a duo of trolls. The group ranked should effectively prevent more trolls then not. A majority of players play soloQ as it's the main focus of this game. It's in Riot's best incentive to make it more team oriented. So in all, I welcome the changes gladly seeing as I won't have to play with many of you unless you are in a group with friends so your incentive of winning is the same as mine.

Janna Me Fiddle11/4/2015, 6:38:15 AM3 votes

How to give the middle finger to your community:

Step 1: Create "Juggernauts" Step 2: Overbuff ADC's and Assassins Step 3: Remove the Duo Queue, but instead a team up to four plus solos queue.

Seriously Ghostcrawler is ruining your game Riot, send him back to Blizzard.

Noctius2811/4/2015, 11:33:51 AM3 votes

I for one welcome our actual teamwork overlords

Seriously what is your problem with this? Are you seriously so miserable in your loneliness you can't let anyone else have fun?

I avoid ranked exactly because I don't want to go alone against 5 enemies plus 4 selfish ragers And I can't go with a friend because then I have 2 more friends I can't play with for that time This is already promoting play and teamwork, since now I can actually play with my 2/3 friends at once who are available for play at the same time as me

This is doing nothing but giving more options for people, it isn't taking anything away

Why oh why are you all so pissed about this? seriously why?

Demonsolder2111/4/2015, 4:01:31 AM2 votes

Bump.

Captainn Ginyu11/4/2015, 5:43:35 AM2 votes

its nto as bad as you people think it is chances are you wont see a 4 man team i rarely ever saw a duo ques i ranked

TDubH11/4/2015, 4:28:51 PM2 votes

LOL FF@20 wars... just as much a probability of YOU getting fucked by a Troling 4-made as the other team... still "WHO CAN SURRENDER FIRST CAUSE THIS LAST SUCKERS IN HIS PROMOS OLOLOLO" will be pretty funny,

Bergk11/4/2015, 4:53:34 PM2 votes

MRW reading about "DYNAMIC GROUPS" https://youtu.be/31g0YE61PLQ

Quietscream11/4/2015, 1:31:43 AM2 votes

Those 3-4 players will have 1-2 players with them and YOU will get teamed with those.

iainB8511/4/2015, 4:31:57 PM1 votes

I'm with you. I was hoping they'd remove duo queue and finally give us a fair solo queue experience. Instead they went full blown opposite.

I understand they want to encourage people to play together and form up teams, but I never imagined they'd completely destroy solo queue to do so. If this isn't forcing the hand I don't know what is.

GenghisEmo11/4/2015, 6:09:42 PM1 votes

im open to the changes, but then again Low Elo Ranked still broken. Drag down those that are better, get stick with those who should not be in ur elo and instead in Bronze. Bloody mess.

Svolski11/5/2015, 9:16:27 PM1 votes

Why do you like to queue with strangers.....how can you work with a stranger in a ranked game...

Timewinder11/4/2015, 1:26:36 AM1 votes

same