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Does anyone else feel like it's impossible to win games queueing as solo?

Puppet33r·8/9/2016, 12:25:58 AM·2 votes·903 views

I've been playing League since season 2 and I have never felt so powerless. Season 2 I ended with gold. The others are all in plat. In previous 2 I even was to diamond 4 but then got demoted for playing chaps I'm not particularly good at. This season I wanted to finally get to diamond. And at first it seemed feasible, but now I simply can't win solo games.

I don't remember the last time I played a game where I was absolutely sure everyone was solo. I keep getting matched against 3-5 ppl preamades lately. I had a game where 5 enemies banded together to dive my jax on toplane on ~15th minute. And no, they didnt take herald and decided to kill silly overextending toplaner. NO. They conciously made a decision to band together, come from their base to toplane through the river, NOT take free herald and dive me under my turret as 5 since I was snowballing. Thankfully the rest of my team weren't as stupid and pushed mid/bot while they were taking tier 1 on bot and we won in the end. But it didn't make the game any more enjoyable. Last game I had my junglerEkko go 0/4 and midJhin 0/5. Why? Well, maybe because their mid and jungle(+support) were premades. You might say: "Well, Jhin is not a particularly good pick especially against Syndra and jungle kha". And you would be 100% right, but the problem is I can't tell them: "please don't pick ad mid we all already picked and we got no source of magic damage" or "don't pick full ad yi into jungle they got Morgana Malphite Caitlyn TwistedFate LeeSin as their picks". Trust me I tried. They just get mad, pick it anyway and tilt on top of that.

The worst part is that I'm playing on eu server so I can't exactly "make friends" with ppl who don't speak english and my language. I do play with my irl friend occasionally which is the only way i found to stay sane waiting for this fail of a season to finally end.

The point of this sad ramble is - dynamic queue is a complete garbage. Solo queue had it's faults but at least you knew that everyone had equal footing. Everyone had trolls on their team. Everyone had bad players and angry teammates to contend with. Now, by going solo you get everything that was bad about solo queue and you get screwed by constantly mismatched numbers of premades. Needless to say, if by the next season I hear nothing about any form of pure solo queue, I'm done.

5 Comments

Swiftstrike48/9/2016, 12:33:03 AM1 votes

I mean did you verify they were premades? Did you examine their match history?

A LOT of people complain make threads about premades. I actually sometimes look up the opponents match history and what is frequently the case is that the opponents are all solo, maybe one duo and they have no history of playing together.

Most people assume they are playing against a premade, due to the coordination of the opposing team, but frequently the reality is that the opponents are just coordinated.

I think the quality of players has improved a bit as well, with players being more coordinated than they were in the past.

Also in high plat and diamond you can't queue with 4s or 5s. I forgot where the cutoff is in platinum, but they recently changed it.

Wolfbanez128/9/2016, 12:35:25 AM1 votes

im lvl 25 and i havent won a game in a long time i look back at the games and all of them have a lvl 30 with over 1000 wins on the enemy team and i figure he has got to be ina premade with a lower lvl player his is this fair?

Eedat8/9/2016, 12:57:34 AM1 votes

I have a 70% ranked win rate as a solo only player. Not sure what the problem is