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Can you please bring back Solo Q!?

UniVibe·8/3/2016, 10:31:04 AM·98 votes·2,832 views

I've had it with Dynamic Q in ranked, it's the shittiest experience I'd had since I started playing in season 2. I don't care about OP champs, bugs in the game, toxicity in game, new game modes, new champs,** just bring back Solo Q**. Keep dynamic Q along side, I don't care. The one thing that got me hooked to this game, ranked, is currently a joke.

I started in bronze season 2 and worked my way to plat for the first time last season. I'm currently gold 1 struggling to make it to plat this season. Now before you start saying "you suck, stop blaming dynamic q, you don't deserve plat". I also have an account in LAN and made plat fairly quickly. Since there are less players in that region I would agree that the region is easier, but also since there are less players, you rarely see 3+ man premades. The highest I made it last season was plat 3, so by no means am I saying I'm a high plat/diamond player. I'm at or almost at my peek, so it's double infuriating when you see stuff described below:

Shitty Game 1 http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2257005029/35146339?tab=overview Premades: Gragas Jhin Cassiopeia Gragas camped his friends 24/7, didn't even think about going top. Even after Jinh started feeding he kept going bot. I got 3 man ganked top, Gragas didn't even care. He could have tried to snowball me top, knowing how a Tryn can split push. I guarantee you if my jungler was solo, he would have thought twice before going back bot to a fed Draven. Tell me Riot how is that teamwork? Did you mean team work among premades and screw the solo players?

Shitty Game 2 http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2257081520/35146339?tab=overview Premades: Katarina Thresh Ashe All 3 premades had a horrible early game. During end game they started pinging like crazy to each other, I ignored them, but the Gragas on my team told them "to stop, grow up", which Katarina replied "We're having a debate", trying to be funny. They as a group obviously didn't care to win at that point, so instead of having one player that gives up, it becomes contagious among the premades and becomes 3 players who give up/don't care. I don't really blame them though, Dyanamic Q is now just another Normal Q. Riot allowing dynamic in ranked has made it a circus. Also, notice thresh's rank (silver 1) compared to the opposite team. Very fair riot, no wonder he struggled, and shitty match making overall. They don't know where to aim in the match making system, right now it's all over the place.

There's of course other issues with dynamic Q, but these were recent examples.

Now to summarize, you might be saying that every solo player is dealing with the same dynamic Q as everyone else, so what's the problem. Well not really, I for one pray to the league gods pregame for all solo players in my team at the least. So yea there's luck involved. The wrongness of dynamic Q in ranked has to do with the poor experience of the solo player and the integrity of ranked. Me making gold as a solo player means nothing when rank boosting is so much easier now.

48 Comments

Creepy Bubble8/3/2016, 2:50:57 PM16 votes

as much as i agree, i've pretty much jumped ship from riot. There's no hope for them. Blizzard is raking in the player base with Overwatch

I think the thing that Riot needs to realize is that they need to stop being the overprotective parent that's "doing this FOR us" and start giving us what we're asking for.

S H A Y C 08/3/2016, 2:16:22 PM7 votes

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Ebolol8/3/2016, 1:04:06 PM7 votes

You're 3 months late to the party bud

Arkatra8/3/2016, 3:28:00 PM6 votes

Just use the mindset i have: Think to the "Season 6" season as a "whole season lasting pre-season". Like honestly:

  • Rank does not shows your own skill in this season. (eloboosting "legally" or "illegally" is easier than ever)
  • Usually game/economy/mechanic changing patches monthly.
  • Totally chaos still around the masteries.
  • DynamicQ as a whole system problems.
  • Class updates. (ADC, Mage, incoming Assasin update and again an ADC role "mini rework" [6.17]) And i could make a looooooooong list, but i think these are the mayority problems.

Just do like me, make your accounts Gold (i still searching my will to put this one aswell into Gold) and keep playing a ranked on other to stop the decay from Platinum. If someone going to pull a finger at me at season7 with "You were only gold/platinum last season!" then i'll just kindly reply: "That's kind of fine from a season which was lasting as a playground for Riot."

Eunson8/3/2016, 6:05:44 PM5 votes

If Solo Q came back i'd start playing again that minute.

Marshbouy8/3/2016, 1:01:15 PM5 votes

Another upvote farming post. They are sticking with DQ. sorry.

Ulriah8/3/2016, 2:17:32 PM4 votes

No.

Shuunsei8/4/2016, 12:02:12 AM3 votes

It's really sad,on euw even in bronze-silver I got premades,I got to play agaist this gold fizz (wtf is he doing in silver 5?),we were even as I was playing teemo for no reason,tho this jungler-adc-support were bronze premades,master yi jungle goes 0-9 and then starts spamming in chat "report teemo pls,flaming me for not ganking and for me having a bad game",I was like "what? I didn't even ask for a single gank"..thinking it was because I didn't tp bot lane everytime they chased until T2 tower and then got killed by jungler..sigh,everywhere I play,normals or ranked,if my team is 4 team premades then it will be shit because if one falls behind they will simply FF without even caring a fuck about me,how many games I went 14-0 but the adc vayne who is premade with the other 3 says "gg no help from yasuo,lets ff"..I vote NO but we still FF,how is this fair?

Or when enemy team has 4-5 man premade,what the hell I'm supposed to do when I'm 100 times better than their premade but I can't even stay in base without the fear of being dived in the fountain by the other 4 premades? From S5 to G5 I went through tens of premades who camped the shit out of me and my team full of randoms had no idea of what the fuck they are supposed to do if they are 10-0 in lane and the enemy jungler+top laner are top lane camping me since 5 minutes while the enemy team knows what to do and when to as they can talk being premades,sigh is this fair? I put a lot of effort but when I get cancer situations like those I simply can't even say something,premades who troll (i.e. blitz adc and garen adc in gold),premades who flame you even tho you are better than them,or premades who simply say BS about you when you don't do as they say

Yasuo why didn't you come do baron when we had 10% hp and enemy team was full of hp?? PLZ report yasuo flame and trolling

Cyis8/4/2016, 12:51:53 AM3 votes

I hit d5 last season pure solo que, no duos. I dropped to gold2 from plat 3 after placements and I cant climb at all. #feelsbad

Mistress Madoka8/3/2016, 5:16:26 PM3 votes

Can you please bring back SoloQ?

No.

MonkeyMadness8/3/2016, 8:06:34 PM3 votes

I feel your pain. I also started in season 2 and just got plat for the first time last season also. I managed to finally get back into plat again this season, but it was not a pleasant experience at all, and it honestly felt like more of an rng grind then an actual display of skill. If the enemy team had the DQ boosters, I won. If I had the DQ boosters, I lost. If the enemy team had the competent premade, I lost. If I had the competent premade (which is rare based on simple probability) I won. I had very little power to climb on my own. Just keep going, you'll get there eventually, and hopefully next season they fix this bs system.

inplane8/4/2016, 4:04:35 PM2 votes

Riot has officially catered to the casual side of League. Ranked is just Draft Normals with a lollipop at the end for winning. There's a problem when I say to my friends "Why not just play Ranked ._." when they invite me to Draft Normals. Dynamic Queue was just the first step they took. Season 6 is pretty lame compared to Season 3, 4, and 5.

I don't get how anyone could defend these things lol. So many posts about how it's flawed and people just go "Harhar. It's superior now shudupop." I also keep in mind that these people are mostly low ranked or do not play Ranked at all.

Quepha8/3/2016, 2:54:12 PM2 votes

Are you saying you had fewer than 2 bad games last season?

Savage Winter8/3/2016, 5:29:10 PM2 votes

"You suck. Stop blaming dynamic q"

Dad Rock8/4/2016, 2:12:14 PM2 votes

I'm a diamond player and ever since I heard that soloqueue was permanently off the table, I have tried my best to preach to low elo players that DQ is fucking them over just as much. Competitive players exist even in low elo, not everyone is a casual. A large portion of ranked is casual now because it brought over people for normal queue. There is no reason to play normal games unless you have friends that far apart from your elo since normal queue has the same level of competitiveness as DQ.

I Go Pew Pew Pew8/3/2016, 6:03:11 PM1 votes

Pokemon Go is pretty fun.

Dark Enıgma8/3/2016, 3:43:55 PM1 votes

Lol

DeathBot6668/4/2016, 2:59:52 AM1 votes

I disagree with your reasoning on your first game though. To me a jg should camp lanes that are starting to feed to prevent the enemy from becoming completely fed. You clearly were doing fine on your own, since you went 11/6, so he should have been helping the bot lane more.

Calabok8/4/2016, 3:00:53 AM1 votes

ask away but it aint comin back.

BloodyTompon8/4/2016, 10:01:47 AM1 votes

Can you please bring back Solo Q!?

No

redfeenix8/3/2016, 3:40:14 PM1 votes

Make some friends. You will enjoy the game a lot more playing with 4 people you know rather than 4 random shitheads. Just my 2 cents

OokamiNoSora8/3/2016, 11:11:17 PM1 votes

just dont play ranked anymore bc who cares