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Boosting is a real issue that needs to be addressed

Chuck Charles·4/14/2016, 8:15:24 PM·1 votes·521 views

Dynamic queue or Solo Queue is a debate for another thread I've already complained in. right now, boosting is everywhere. boosting has and always has been a thing. but now its even worse than before. with the ability to queue as up to five you can get 3 smurfs on one team and then face roll a team of lower elo premade who actually belong in that elo.

even then this season has been a tell. I have been on receiving end of playing with smurfs and AGAINST smurfs. and I'll tell my experience here.

I am gold V (peaked gold 2 last season). so basically your run of the mill player. I have queued with two diamonds, a master, and a challenger (yes challenger) in queue and gotten absolutely destroyed by a premade. (all challenger/master smurf...wtf) I have queued with that same master tier (support main) and a mid diamond ADC main (in gold) and we lost 4 in a row to other smurfs. (see a trend here) I have queued solo and been carried by 4 man diamond smurfs I have queued solo and been absolutely destroyed by 4 man diamond smurfs.

the game is just not in a healthy state right now. there is no competitiveness to it whatsoever. its either queue with a bunch of smurfs or risk getting absolutely destroyed. My last ranked game I did well but noticed across the board my team was losing all lanes and HARD. like this happens sometimes in solo queue, but i could just tell something was fishy. i ask enemy zed "are you a smurf?" and he said "diamond 3" and then the j4 up top says "im d2" and the sivir who is also duo says "diamond 5 pleb Kappa". I mean. 3 diamonds vs my team of all golds. i tried to carry but it was just too much. im ok. some games are unwinnable. but if you get a streak of this happening say 4 times in a row its demoralizing. its not fun. it ruins your MMR and makes it so hard to climb.

I want to make it clear I can still climb if I improve my play, but the experience has been none the less frustrating. I either have to give in and duo with my high elo friends just to stand a chance, or just roll the dice while i try to get better. and believe me, it DOES motivate me to get insanely better because unlike last season where solo carrying was much easier, this season I have to be a VERY well rounded player. that doesnt change the fact this sucks.

Riot, I ask you. if nothing else. if you don't bring back solo Q, please fix boosting and monitor it better. ranked is a nightmare right now.

4 Comments

archerno14/14/2016, 8:17:39 PM2 votes

There is no debate or discussion. They said its allowed to smurf with friends.

ARoninInDisgrace4/14/2016, 8:27:27 PM1 votes

I think they should have a way to make Normals an actual thing that Draft and ranked player will use to go practice against lower ability people. One would make them test them selves when they run into that one God level player who just doesn't play ranked, and two, it would really remove the need to smurf. Find a way to incoporate normals and blinds in to the ranked experience. But make Normals worth practicing in also. Then just make it to the way it used to be in Normals, if a low ELo player ivited his high ELO friend to play they played in a mixed elo que. Make that only for Normals though, not for Ranked. Would give people a place to play friends of different skill, even helping them boost their summoner levels yet it wouldn't effect Ranked, other than their ELO if they lose or don't play well (I've seen God tier players who've been playing since beta like I have, but have played even fewer Draft Games as I, that would murder plyers like Fakker even at his peak.)