Duo queue needs to be removed from ranked solo queue

psuedo meta·11/7/2019, 10:24:19 AM·9 votes·3,434 views

Ill make the point by explaining it through 1 champion. Nidalee.

S tier at high elo, A tier average at all elos.

First ill explain why nidalee is so good at high elo, Because most if not all of nidalee's win conditions are in the early game. Being able to do fast jg clears/good jg invades/and good gank rotations. But nidalees at high elos are insane because they have to be. Grinding elo or maining nidalee from low elo to high elo(without smurfing) forces a player to adapt the highrisk-high reward playstyle in order to close out games early. At low elo this is mostly emphasized bc at low elos not many teamates will capitalize on nidalee's win conditions or early potential forcing nidalees to become self dependant as they climb, further increasing their skillcap and ability to carry(but I will say it is a struggle to 1 v 9 as nidalee in low-mid elo). learning to become the sole reason for winning as she climbs becomes dangerous when teammates start to become competent because her win conditions become emphasized to the maximum potential.

But I do mean it when I say it is a struggle to 1 v 9 in low-mid elo as nidalee. You have to play the best, and at times that wont be enough because your ganks wont be received well by teammates at times, and your invades even when a teammate has priority will not be met by that laner's presence. Your win condition/potential will dissipate before your very eyes. The learning curve, and nidalee's skillcap is incredibly high, but she really only starts to pay-off at the latter parts of her skillcap.

Yet nidalee still is A tier average at all elos, but this is mostly an inflated stat caused from the many wins by duo-smurfs. Who tend to reach diamond with 90%+ win ratios. Let alone solo smurf nidalee players can get to diamond with 76%+ win ratios. These players inflate/boost nidalee's winrate and tier grade too much.

What does this have to do with me wanting to remove duo queue? Bc in general having duo players whether smurf or not illegitimates the competitiveness of ranked games because most players are solo. Ranked games almost always feel likes its 100% your responsibility, even despite that fact that its a teamgame. Everytime I win or lose I feel likes it was 100% on me. I could have made a small adjustment to a play here or there in the early/mid/or late game and could have changed the direction of the game at the beginning or result of the game at the end. Having 2 players that are premade smurf or not takes away from this aspect of the game.

Recently riot has been buffing things that are already seen as decent/ or have their own niche and powerspikes in the game, and champs that already felt well rounded. How come? because there were a couple of op champions, but instead of nerfing the op champions riot decided to bring other champs up to par, leaving many other champs behind. Unbalancing the game even more and creating wider gaps. making the banning phase of pick and bann less meaningfull, because now there is a wider pool of stronger champions for players to abuse. Further decreasing my win chance as a non smurf on nidalee. Because nidalee wont be seen as someone who needs to be buffed bc of her insane inflated win ratios/ tier.

7 Comments

LightswornLance11/7/2019, 2:17:40 PM4 votes

Duo que should probably be removed but not for any reason listed in this post.

FOR JUSTICE11/7/2019, 3:18:43 PM1 votes

If you say her winrate is artificially boosted by duo Smurfs you've already contradicted yourself by saying "most players are solo".

Besides, mathematically speaking this is impossible. There simply aren't enough duos or high enough elo smurfs to even suggest that it could.

MasterDClone11/7/2019, 9:42:06 PM1 votes

sounds more like your problem is with smurfing and not duoing but w/e

I Have No Future11/7/2019, 9:52:58 PM1 votes

If you'd talked about duos or smurfs instead of nidalee you would've been downvoted so fast, so good job actually.