Riot Decided To Ruin Game For Everyone But Premades

Bauble·1/22/2016, 5:04:14 PM·4 votes·941 views

Letting 3-5 premades completely ruins experience for me and other solo players. We had enough 4-pre in unranked games.

I will quote Asylum Archfiend (doesn't matter if I said it myself, everyone are saying the same): > * Moving the primary communication of a team out of the chat and into skype works well for the 3-4 who are premade, but is shit for the remaining player(s). The remaining players will be left out of very valuable communication. Pinging will most likely decrease > * Mob mentality is huge. Look at how much people defend their premade partner when they fuck up. Hint: It's a lot. Now imagine there being 1 outsider. He won't be able to say "Jinx, play more carefully" without 80 % of his team telling him to shut up and not talk unless he's 15/0. (I would add from myself here: it also works in offensive way instead of defensive. Its almost guaranteed that 4-pre group will flame an outsider instead of their friend when losing, even if that outsider didn't do major mistakes) > * Solo players have very little impact. Because of the lack of communication with the rest of the team (who are probably skyping), the remaining player has little to no influence on the macro game. The group does what the group wants and the last player can either do the same or be reported for "refusing to communicate with the team"

Communication is 50% fun of multiplayer game, approximately (for me it goes much higher). When team speaks 100% of game time in skype (yes, chat is completely empty the entire game, that is) I get ~25 minutes of boredom.

We had the possibility to avoid negative 'hey 4 pre here' experience by going to ranked. No more. Thanks Riot

9 Comments

Kiteh Kat1/22/2016, 5:07:06 PM2 votes

They're adding a pure solo ranked queue in possibly a few weeks. It'll be completely separate from Dynamic and it'll be purely solo queue.

DrCyanide1/22/2016, 5:08:47 PM1 votes

As someone who's played in a lot of premades before, I'm willing to bet that half of the 4 man premades you've encountered were good enough you couldn't tell they were premades.

j0ker 071/22/2016, 5:09:05 PM1 votes

Play the solo queue if you can't make friends. Stop complaining that groups under 5 people can finally progress in a ranked queue. /thread

jaymc11301/22/2016, 5:11:30 PM1 votes

Solo players have it real rough as long as they don't have an option. Things are ok right now with Dynamic disabled and we are getting a true ranked solo queue in due time. But yeah, the game has always been a pretty poor experience for solo players.

Colgate Gator1/22/2016, 5:12:29 PM1 votes

Being completely honest, when I'm 3-4 premade with my friends, most of the time the loner doesn't even realize.

It sounds like it's more of a problem with toxic people.