Riot, Here's How to Fix Dynamic/Solo Queue for Gameplay
Riot, please hear me out for the sake of Solo Queue players, My intention is not to insult, but to suggest something that has been suggested before countless times, just hear me out on this please.
Look we all know solo queue players have to go against premades of 2-4. You defend it saying that it's still fair in a skill orientated sense. That may very well be true, but the fact is, COMMUNICATION.
Let's move past all your BS numbers you pull out of a random hat, like 1 in 20 matches you go against a premade, let's face it, that's simply not true, and is based completely on the luck of the individual. I go against premades nearly every match i ever play in ranked and even normals. I would even go as far as to say 2 out of 3 games, i will have to go against a premade of at least 3. How can i tell they are a premade you ask? CLUBS, you can see very well in the loading screen what club people are in, instantly letting you know your against a premade of friends queue-ing together.
Now now, onto my point, Look, dynamic queue is cool, it really is, its clean and crisp and you've done a lot to try to fix it. We all know solo queue can not co-exist with it as is, so Solo queue will likely never happen at this point. I really enjoy everything about it except the premade part, not skill wise, but communication wise. I'm the unlucky fellow that gets put on a 5 man team of solo queue players, and we have to go against a 4 man premade, and 1 solo queue player. Or a 3 man premade and a 2 man bot, or blah blah blah the point is, i get all solo queue players, and we have to go against premades. Again, that's not the issue, i can't stress this enough, it's communication, they are very likely on voice chat of some form, skype, team speak, ventrilo, you name it.
So how do you fix it? In-Game Voice chat my Rito Friends, That will completely fix the gap in communication and coordination of solo queue players going against premades. Let's face it, these premades of 3 or 4, ARE VERY LIKELY on skype, or some form of voice chat, AND THAT IS WHAT MAKES THE MATCH SO UNFAIR. They coordinate turret dive ganks at level 3 like it's the LCS! Against solo queue players!
I understand your point that you say the game is still fair going against these premades in a skill sense, i understand that, but THAT AGAIN IS NOT WHAT LOSES THE MATCH. This is the biggest flaw in your system. It's not skill, it's communication, so unless you make your game unable to play with voice chat programs in the background, it will never truly be balanced unless you implement your own voice chat for the sake of solo queue players!
An in-game voice chat would completely balance that, if both sides gets voice chat, then it's truly equal. Now, what if i am being verbally abused you say? Come on, that is so simple.... a Second mute button, just like the one for chat, but this one for voice chat. That simple. Problem solved. No more gap in communication between solo vs premade, no harassment because of a mute button, THEN you don't have to waste your time trying to figure out solo queue just to come out and say it can't happen another 3 months down the road!
God i'm a genius! I know i'm not the first to suggest this, but man, at this point, this would fix your dynamic queue and you would never have to worry about solo queue ever again! Saves money, saves effort, balances dynamic queue, what's to lose? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that if both teams have solid voice communication, that THEN the match would be decided by skill! But at this point, the match is decided by who ever has voice communication!
Thanks for reading and i hope you consider it instead of just deleting my post and saying it should be somewhere else.