Flex Queue is awful..

Krytoric··16 votes·4,680 views

I really hope the preseason MMR doesnt affect actual ranked season stats. Cause "Flex Queue" sounded pretty sweet on paper, but it sucks. i just played a game with a Bronze 1 ADC , and the other team had a Diamond 4 top laner.. Also every game i have like 2 silvers, (me and a friend plat) then anywhere from bronze to gold as the last guy.

There's no balanced teams, no equal skill match-ups, and if it ruins the MMR of people who deserve their rank and they're being screwed over by lower ranked team mates, that isn't really fair.

I'm not saying "i should be diamond but these people are holding me back" but being thrown into a game, with 3-4 lower ranks, while the other team is matching my rank isn't fair. I'm playing at the level i should be, and my team is against people better than them. And it sucks for me and them, because I'm almost guaranteed the loss because they cant really play the game at that level, and they're losing because better players are out playing them, and they just have better game knowledge / mechanics.

I think Riot shouldn't take the MMR from the offseason because the reason the games are horrible, is on their end.

14 Comments

Proxiimus3 votes

Same.. I'm watching IWillDominate play right now against Gold players.. Also watched Jensen play with/against Golds as well.. I'm Plat and I got placed Silver 4 after going 5-5 in placements.. I only won my placements when I Q'd up with 3 Diamonds and another mid plat... which placed us in games against Bronze/Silvers.. so I dunno how this thing works but it reallys ucks.

IPlayTwitchUDie2 votes

it's terrible. it's actually worse than DQ

rtbf343910522 votes

Flex queue is pathetic. I'm not sure what they were thinking back at headquarters.

Momkis2 votes

hmmm ok, i was s4 after first 10 games, ok thats fine, but today i play one game and i lose, and now im B1 WTF ? :D

Wreit2 votes

Not to mention it might be even more toxic than blind pick. Maybe becouse lots of ppl ended up at lower ranks than what they expected,and now are tilted already in champselect (had two afk players last game) I just play it cuz there is no normal draft and there is no way i'll play blind

Osare2 votes

I agree 100% that flex queue is awful. I get remakes consistently, and mmr differences of up to 1100 in rare cases.

V1SHAL2 votes

This entire game is cancer.summoner 4 back to playing gta.

DrCyanide1 votes

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/3m3sPjar-odd-placements-in-flex

Sounds like there's a bug with the MMR system that's effecting things, and that it would be the same problem for any other new queue (like Solo/Duo).

LankPants5 votes

If this is the case they need to go clean slate on the last weeks ranked. People have placed higher or lower than they deserve due to the shitty matchmaking, Riot needs to revert that.

TeemToe1 votes

Exactly... I played a game vs 2 diamond, 2 high plats, and a gold 3... And my team had 1 of every rank... Bronze, Silver, Gold, Plat, Diamond... This is honestly a joke. The match making is absolutely garbage. I understand that it's a new queue, and everyone has a clean slate of MMR, but having teams like this is ruining games.

ìatros1 votes

I've also had plenty of games like this. I placed into silver 3 after 3 losses with bronze players on my team versus plats.

Being in silver 3 and climbing back to plat, I'm not fucking stuck at every other game with a bronze and silver while the other team has multiple plats.

HotN1ps1 votes

Yeah I'm not happy with flex queue either. I realize we were going to get ranked lower than our actual rank, but boy was I ranked lower. It is what it is but I can't seem to get matched with teams on my level with any consistency. I'm either getting matched against worst of the worst or I'm getting matched against plat players who wipe the floor with my team. The 10 prelim matches weren't any better, couldn't win with any consistency so I just focused on trying to play better than my teammates....still didn't help me place in a more reasonable spot.

Its only been a few weeks and I've completely given up on FLEX and have no interest in trying it again. I'm no pro but I've been teetering on ranking up to S3 in Solo/Duo, I'm better than the Bronze ranking I received, screw climbing out of that hell hole again. I'm not happy with the job Riot has done with the ranking system. They need to remove flex or just start over. I don't see how hard it is to match people against players or equal or similar skill level.

VvVVvV1 votes

Riot completely messed up when it came to Flex que and them resetting stuff.

Nothing they did in handling it was right.

  • Bronze & Silvers had to go against Plat & Diamond players in their placement games.
  • Then after getting placed they reset everyone and made them play a ONE GAME "do or die" placement game. (That is the exact wording I was told in a support ticket)

I got screwed so bad in my flex que.

-I finished last season Silver. Everyone of my placements had plat and diamond on other team. My team had maybe 1 or 2 but other team always had more higher elo players. Even with that I went 8-2 in my placements and got placed in Silver 2.

  • Within 2 days I moved up to Silver 1.
  • They did the reset overnight
  • The next day when I went to play my 1st game.......it ended up being a remake because our support never connected.
  • As soon as I got back to the main screen in the client I got a message saying "due the the results of your placement game, you will start the season in Bronze V)

That is why I ended up putting the support ticket in where I was told it was a "do or die" 1 game placement. And as you can see I didnt even get that because our game resulted in a remake which is NOT supposed to count.

The correct way for Riot to handle the reset was to let everyone play ALL TEN of their placement games over. But they are too busy working on the next Ryze rework, new skins and rotating game modes to even think of that.

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