You seem to never move up in ranked as a solo anymore

JavelinJoe··3 votes·480 views

It is impossible to do it. You just cant match premades or your teammates are too stupid to actually draft as a team and not 5 solos. You need 2-3 others to count on reliably if you want to get any higher. It is so frustrating to be the only one winning lane just to have everywhere else fall apart and snowball over you. There are too many boosted monkeys in gold and silver it is no longer funny. You should know not to face check a brush vs a Thresh or Blitzcrank as the ADC. You should know better than playing without a keystone mastery or smite in the jungle.

I want players who want to actually win games, not die 3-4 times by 10 minutes and blame it on the rest of the team for not helping them because they cant think for themselves and use common sense. "Feed and leaves" needs to become an auto ban. It is happening more and more. The game has really gone downhill this season in terms of having an enjoyable ranked experience for us solo players. Sorry if I cant have 5000000 friends all be online and waiting at my command to form a premade with me RIOT.

Premades ruined the level of required skill and effort needed to play ranked. And the LP system is very flawed currently. Why should I get demoted for my teammate's mistakes. If this truly is a team based game now, then Why does some the team require others to carry them? And if soloing is not outlawed, why am I losing rank and LP from loses where I personally could not do more to try and win, but lost because of team mates?

8 Comments

The Magyk1 votes

they're bringing back a strictly solo/duo queue with season 7 pre-season i believe. that will draw exclusively from a pool of solo or duo players instead of a pool of solo-premade 5. im not 100% sure if its with preseason or if its simply starting next season but it is coming, the return of true solo queue ;)

Eedat1 votes

You would be wrong. I'm a Solo-only player and I have a 68% win rate

iTzYaBoyJohnCena1 votes

you're just lucky you don't get put with the bronze hell we get put with

Eedat1 votes

Started this season in S5 which is actually probably worse than Bronze 1.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO easy to carry

Swiftstrike41 votes

I find I have the same win rate with or without friends. If you are good enough in your role, you can win regardless of your opponent queue size.

I do think it is harder in Silver to climb, due the skill variance among the players being so wide. Silver players are also pretty toxic and have a hard time figuring out how to stop feeding if they die a couple times.

Silver players usually think the only thing holding them back are their teammates, which can be the case sometimes, but you need to consider if you have bad teammates, there is a good chance the opponents have bad teammates as well. This puts the odds of getting weak teammates at about 50%.

At that point it is your job to play well in a higher percentage of games than the games you play poorly. And then you simply need to win those games more often. A 52% win rate on a champion is probably high enough to climb in Silver through a lot of games.

My main account got to Gold quickly after getting a little stuck in mid Silver. My smurf account placed in mid silver and got to Gold V in very little time.

colesy1 votes

i mean i dont have any problems climbing solo, maybe im just crazy

iTzYaBoyJohnCena1 votes

I agree, I duo and I still get feeding teammates for some reason.

Milodic Mellodi1 votes

It's true, I can't even get out of Bronze because my teammates are 4-man premades, and every time I try they're always toxic. No synergy at all :(

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