unpopular opinion: there should only be one ranked Q

Veraska··1 votes·364 views

It shouldn't be Solo Q, league of legends is a team game and from my experiences with solo Q it hardly feels like it. Solo Q seem to have this mentality that your team is garbage and your mission is to get so fed that it doesn't matter how hard they feed, there's little strategy in champ select besides ban the op or fotm champs you don't wanna deal with and pick your most comfortable carry. I don't think solo Q Acura tell reflects how good you are at league of legends.

I don't think dynamic Q is the right answer either, it's horribly unbalanced and it creates a divide in your team, either between premades or premades and solo players, while dynamic Q potentially shows better team play, it's rarely in a fair fight and doesn't hold the compete integrity and even playing field a pure solo Q would offer.

So solo Q is fair but inaccurate to what real league of legends is, while dynamic Q is closer (not perfect) it's horribly unbalanced and creates disputes in between reams (thus ruining true team play)

The only ranked Q should be 5 man ranked play, it's the only accurate reflection of true competitive league of legends. They should create other ways to show off and reward your solo player skill, but I think your actual rank should should be determined by how well you play with your team

Not everyone just has 4 friends they can que up regularly with (I know I dont) but I think the club system could be updated to be like a ranked clan that if you wanted to play ranked you could invite like minded players from your club.

That's my thoughts on it, it's not a popular opinion and its super unreasonable, but I think in a team game your skills should be prioritized as team play>everything else and 5v5 ranked is the only way to get a fair and accurate rating of that.

8 Comments

BluePolarizer3 votes

pure Solo queue is statistically accurate over large game numbers. learning how to professionally communicate with people you don't personally know is a hugely important life skill.

Veraska1 votes

That's a good argument I could see the value of communicating with strangers, it's important in a contractors environment for example but I don't think every solo player will go into the Q with the teamwork-with-strangers mindset

BluePolarizer2 votes

they will then either learn, naturally fall or become so mechanically good that it doesn't matter. most fall.

Wolfram Oxford2 votes

"Unpopular Opinion" = upvote bait

Veraska2 votes

I'm actually expecting a sea of down votes lol

TSwift Is Sexy1 votes

These people are the equivalent of girls posting their titties on instagram.

EcchiOtakuTM1 votes

There's a difference between a team game and being forced to premade to actually stand a chance.

Bronze-gold and maybe low plat premades are fine but high plat and definitely diamond+ premade should NEVER be a thing premade teams know how to abuse objective control and ganks (especially when they practice TP flanks) it's too much to handle for the enemy team.

I'm not against dynamic queue for lower elo but once you get to the higher elo it should turn into solo/duo queue with ranked 5 teams.

Premade should be a kickstarter to get into plat but onward be your own skill to get higher.

Veraska1 votes

That's why I'm against dynamic que, the advantage premades get over solo players is an unfair advantage in a ranked environmemt, even more do in higher elos

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