Wat is the point of solo que?

RPSbODMdaZ·Nov 23, 2014·6 votes·1,197 views

when individual skill means little to nothing if every lane is going to feed and lose their towers at 10 mins? u can outplay the fuck out of your lane opponent and kill him over and over all you want it wont change the fact your bot lane is 0-8 at 9 minutes and their tower is about to fall while your jungler is dieing to wolves, them feeding like that makes the game nearly impossible for you to carry unless you're playing katarina and the other team has no cc at all to stop your ulti, why do you guys play solo que when its 90% luck as in whoever gets the better team wins? ive had 4 games tonight where every single lane but mine gets stomped as if they were vsing challenger players or something, so tell me why do you play solo que if its based off of random generated teams (you can get that 0-5 xin xhao whos dieing everytime he ganks, or they can. Its the luck of the draw in league of luck)

17 Comments

PL55Nov 23, 20146 votes

Although most people don't want to admit it, winning a solo queue game is highly dependent on your team. Mostly you hear something across the lines of, "You can win every game if you focus and tell your teammates what to do", but since that is so common at least one person will use that mentality on the other team too so they don't throw. This is also PVP, there are other human players who know how their champion works on the other team, and your teammates will have low morale if they feed and will just want to quit. It is very hard to single handedly carry the game if the other team has people who are just as competent as you.

Miku Lv99Nov 23, 20145 votes

It's not all luck. After enough games it does about even out. Just don't worry about the results of any one particular game very much but look for patterns in how games seem to play out and look for things you could have done better in each game.

DJ Hatsune MikuNov 23, 20144 votes

Where were you? Why aren't you ganking, calling shots, warding to get easy kills on jungle, doing anything besides farming mid? It's on you, get there and stop blaming others.

Leti the YetiNov 23, 20146 votes

well, theres only one of you.. and 4 other people in different places that you cant always cover for

I understand the idea of sharing your gold advantage but sometimes yuor team fails faster than you can get shit done

or sometimes they dont listen

SolaxoNov 23, 20142 votes

yeah always blaming your teammates. Typical

AbodyHUN666Nov 23, 20141 votes

But sometimes they do. And sometimes your team will win most lanes but an enemy will hold them together and they will turn it around. Sometimes they won't. It's all about winning under circumstances which other players at your skill level would lose.

RPSbODMdaZNov 23, 20141 votes

Lol im litteraly talking about games were they are 0-5 in the first 5-10 minutes, nothing u can do about that if they want to keep dieing before u can get to their lane i cant just 2v1 mid with them and hold their hand and hope they dont feed? you realize i dont have a tp on a 1 sec cooldown i cant go bot then mid then top, especially as a top lane player its out of my control when the lanes feed so early, i usually try to crush my lane and roam right away but they were feeding to fast and frequently

DJ Hatsune MikuNov 24, 20141 votes

So the ~1% of your games. Get over it. I've had games as udyr where my lanes are collectively 1-15 by 12 minutes, raging hard at me, and I kept doing my thing. I stuck to the gameplan, and that's how I hit gold with 80% winrate with him lol. Roll with the losses and realize you have maybe 1-2 out of every 30 games that's completely unwinnable.

Leti the YetiNov 24, 20141 votes

I dont think you understand the people who are raging bout elo hell

if it was 1~2 games, they probably wouldnt be so mad

they are experiencing more like 24 out of every 30 games where its just ridiculous

FeathermaneNov 23, 20143 votes

When you put it that way, it really makes no sense to play the game. Fortunately, you have misrepresented every aspect of the game, so we are safe. Phew.

BronzeMastermindNov 23, 20142 votes

Skill is a factor, just not the biggest. People always mention how pros can smurf back to Diamond easily, they never mention that even the pros lose a game or two in bronze and silver. Also the losing team isn't necessarily bad, sometimes you just have no synergy, nobody's on the same page.

AbodyHUN666Nov 23, 20141 votes

Certainly you can't win every single game, noone can. Team synergy is another factor of winning. If you can't pick a champ to fit the team and lose because of it you deserve it.

EffectFXNov 23, 20142 votes

Luck has very little to do with this game if you're competent

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/euw/42756798#ranked-stats

warpenguin555Nov 23, 20142 votes

you do realize that solo and duo are mixed together right?

soulbanana8Nov 23, 20141 votes

Sadly, not every game is going to be perfect. There is a luck element in this(well, when does randomness NOT have a luck component?), but most of your games, you should be able to try and spread your gold advantage.

TerffNov 23, 20141 votes

Lol reminds me of a game of Lol recently, I played as garen, stomped my lane but every other lane started dying, also you can help your teammates if they are having a hard time and you're doing good. I was able to decimate all the other laners, we still lost but it felt good to know I at least tried to help xD

ElemonNov 24, 20141 votes

From my extensive experience of solo queue, I very rarely have any games that are nearly this bad... You act as if you always die horribly and have horrible teammates and crush the enemy yourself every game, which is both statistically and realistically rare. From my experience, that's extremely rare. Additionally, what else are you supposed to do if none of your league friends are on? Sit there and twiddle your thumbs?