Riot, it's the role selection I have a problem with in ranked
It's not just the premades. I'm not sure what the community thinks, but I had to post this because I've just been so damn pissed.
So I'm a jungle main, and don't really like any other lane much. I queued fill secondary at the start of dynamic queue, but after realising I would get support every time, put my secondary as top. I'm not sure, put pretty sure, top is the 2nd least played role, because 75% of the time queuing jungle primary top secondary I get top. I'm semi-fine with that, since I don't perform terribly at top, but it's still a stupid statistic, and either way that's not what this post is to complain about.
It's the queue times. Everyone says for high elo this is a huge problem, but for low elo it shouldn't matter. I'm here to say it does matter. At least for me, not sure about the community, but this is a problem I've certainly been experiencing. I'm in low elo, damn low in fact, silver 3. With such a huge percent of the community being in silver, you'd think there'd be low queue times. Guess what? Not for me. I often queue with 3, or 4 people, and our roles are often in the mix of jungle, mid, adc and then me who is secondary or rarely primary top, and another person who sometimes queues top. The recommended wait is usually around 2 mins, but I'm not kidding, I've been waiting for 20-30 mins sometimes. It's usually around 15-20 though. Which is absurd. With millions of NA players playing this damn game, it's crazy to think I should wait this long for a game, even though none of us queue support.
I'm not sure who else is experiencing this, but I'm a player who doesn't play ranked much because when I do I spend half the damn time queuing or playing support, which I don't want to do. If you're someone else in low elo who is experiencing these ridiculous queues, tell me, I'd be interested. I don't get why high elo players think it's only them suffering from this dynamic queue, because it's really not. And just as a note, when someone queues support a game takes about 1-2 mins to find.
For those looking for screenshots, I don't have any, simply because when the queue gets to 5-10 minutes, we reset it hoping it will do something in case it's in a glitched deadlock or something, but I can assure you I experience these queue times 90% of the time I queue up for ranked, and am just wondering who else suffers this, out of curiosity, because players like me who queue in premades have the so called advantage in dynamic queue, but I still dislike the experience solely because of these wait times. 20 mins in silver to find a game? Makes me almost want to not climb just because I wonder how awful it must be in high elo with like 2% of the player base.
That is all.