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SoloQ: My suggestions on how to fix it (Opinion alert)

Cräfty··3 votes·1,881 views

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Playing SoloQ, especially this season, was a very toxic experience for me and very frustrating, to the point where, and I'm gonna be honest, got be perma banned twice on 2 other accounts because I couldn't just stay silent against all the trolls, afks, inting players and more toxic players in game, and I just exploded on these motherf**kers (sometimes, you gotta let out of all the soloQ stress, man!). After a while, it got me thinking. What can Riot do to improve the current SoloQ system and make it fun to grind the ranked ladder once again?!

Well, here are some of my suggestions. If anyone has more to offer, feel free to add it in the comments below:

  • Separate SoloQ from DuoQ: People should climb the ranked ladder alone, with their own skills and game knowledge. The current Solo/DuoQ system is easily abused and not fun to play against (Top or mid + jungler duos, or bot lane duos). So many times I get into a game vs 1 or 2 premades on enemy team, where my team only has Solo players. The difference in synergy between our teams is just too big and unfair! Just merge DuoQ with Flex Q, problem solved! I mean, you can tag alone or with a Duo in the current flex ranked already, so why not just make Duoing only possible in flex queue and leave SoloQ alone?!

  • Limit autofills per game and balance the autofills in each team: So many times, I get 2 or 3 autofilled players in my games, on my team, and when I check the enemy team, they're all on main roles. Now, how is that fair?! Sometimes even all players are autofilled, which I don't even know how it's possible! Just Limit the autofilled spots to 1 or 2 per team and have the system balance the numbers on each side (if my team has 2 autofilled players, so should the enemy team).

  • Rework the MMR/rank system from the ground: The current MMR system is so badly designed that people are getting matched with players of higher or lower MMR/rank than them (especially in high elo). Not only that, People who actually get mismatched gain way less LP than they should have gained, and lose way more LP than they should have lost, in a fair balanced ranked game where everyone would have had the same MMR and be of a similar skill level. Boosted accounts are a thing that's been haunting soloQ for a decade. People buying accounts and boosting services to get to a certain rank with a certain MMR range and queue up in soloQ thinking they belong in that high elo when their gameplay is just terrible and worthy of iron 4. When a system is so easily abused and exploited, that's a red flag to wake up and fix it. Maybe look at other games that don't have this MMR issue, if they exist, so you can get your hands on their MMR formula, copy it and paste it into your spaghetti code. I know it's not that simple, but you get my point: if you can't do it yourself, copy others!

  • Stop focusing on what's said in game chat and focus more on actual gameplay and its consequences: So many people troll their games, intentionally feed and run it down lane, steal jungle camps from their own jungler because they're salty, refuse to help teammates, etc. All of this without typing a single word in chat, and we can't do sh*t about it. We can't even report them at the final scoreboard, in the client, since all the options are useless in this case, and we can't report them on the forum since Riot ignores it anyway. In league we have Replays, so give us an option to report players for those reasons by linking the appropriate replay to prove it and get these toxic players out of our games! If necessary, bring back the tribunal!

17 Comments

Baby Ghoul2 votes

I really want harsher punishments for in-game trolling, especially for smurfs.

Smurfs act like they're untouchable because when they throw games a. it isn't their main account, and b. riot barely punishes trolling as it is. Gold ELO is basically where they fester and do whatever they want because they're too afraid to play on their main which is typically in diamond 5. So many of them straight up link their na.op.gg when called out on it too.

Duo queue is problematic for me solely because of smurfs as well. I've had so many games where a smurf is boosting someone who clearly belongs in low silver or below, and the game goes down the toilet because we're so close to plat. People play their mains and make less mistakes. A diamond player isn't going to be able to carry someone that low or new to the game in that ELO.

preternatural2 votes

get rid of chat box. anon voice calls. heck we actually need the latter to correct this sick community but whatever, people think there's gonna be some virgin incel trying to hit on girls they find, just tell them they're a virgin incel with voice chat and hear them fight back the tears.

p3tm4ster1 votes

They finally put an option in to disable chat while in the game crafty linked it here it is, https://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-914-notes#patch-show-[allied]-chat

I tried it out, it works amazingly, no more flamers, it just makes an all around better experience.

preternatural1 votes

{quoted}

They finally put an option in to disable chat while in the game crafty linked it here it is, https://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-914-notes#patch-show-[allied]-chat

I tried it out, it works amazingly, no more flamers, it just makes an all around better experience.

i already use that, more functional would be just removing chat all together cause only the people who want to use it as intended are turning it off cause it's never used as intended.

p3tm4ster1 votes

You missed the most important suggestion. GET RID OF THE CHAT BOX INGAME! There has never been and still isn't any justifiable reason to have a chat box in the game. We have pings and emotes and honestly that's more than we need. The only purpose chat serves in game is for people to flame and be toxic.

Cräfty1 votes

I'm pretty sure there is the option to disable chat in the game menu, not sure how though.

Tbh, I think the chat box is very useful for differents reasons:

  • You can chat with your friends if, for some reason, you can't use a mic.
  • You can track down cooldowns of so many spells and see the exact timing on it (if you have timestamps enabled).
  • You can communicate and coordinate with your teammates, if you're not on voice com (it happens sometimes in ranked, not gonna lie)
  • If you forgot an important info like " when did the enemy use his flash " you can check the chat history for a quick answer.
  • Pings are registered and saved in the chat history, so it can make for a good proof if, for example, you pinged a MIA enemy then get flamed for not pinging MIA because the flamer is not paying attention to the minimap, or something like that.

These are the most important pros that I see in chat, imho.

Nonetheless, chat still has its cons but if you're talking about the toxic messages that players type, you can simply /mute all and you're good to go. You can even /fullmute all to mute even pings and emotes alongside muting chat. And I think recently they added the option to only mute your allies chat too.

p3tm4ster1 votes

Nope I've checked there's no way to remove the chat box. Chatting with friends is not something that should be done in the game, in fact that's what will cost the game most of the time for the team who's doing it. Communication and coordination is done entirely through a mic these days, ask anyone in LCS they won't even type in chat unless its for some specific reason in a live stream, chat is literally nothing but a time suck anymore. As for your "good proof if timestamped" that's a none issue without a chat box because you can't be flamed.

But just to be clear they can keep the history of pings, just not the chat, the chat itself is what's toxic. You would still have an event window just no chat attached to it.

Cräfty1 votes

https://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-914-notes#patch-show-[allied]-chat

p3tm4ster1 votes

Nice, it's brand new, no wonder I didn't know about it. Thanks!

Cräfty2 votes

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Daddy Ants1 votes

{quoted}

You missed the most important suggestion. GET RID OF THE CHAT BOX INGAME! There has never been and still isn't any justifiable reason to have a chat box in the game. We have pings and emotes and honestly that's more than we need. The only purpose chat serves in game is for people to flame and be toxic.

You can do this yourself.

Options > Interface > Disable Allied Chat and Disable All chat.

Cräfty2 votes

He didn't know about it. But I already told him and he, now, knows (look in the comments down below).

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

p3tm4ster2 votes

Yes crafty just told me, I did it, and let me tell you both my games were AMAZING! So much better with no flamers.

Cräfty1 votes

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Darkstar Annie1 votes
  1. Eat. Eat good food not junk for clear mind, better focus, better mood.
  2. Exercise. Do 50 jump & jacks and 20 push-up in between rounds, or go for a jog down the neighborhood street and back.
  3. Game. Play 10 games or so and no more.
  4. Break. For one hour or so. Maybe a movie on Netflix or watch a favorite youtuber channel or twitch streamer.
  5. Repeat.
WoonStruck1 votes

The current MMR system isn't badly designed. Its the same one that worked beautifully in the past.

  1. Duo queue makes it work much less accurately, as there isn't as big of a penalty anymore. People used to actually complain about having duos on their team because of how much it raised their team's effective MMR. Tbh, it was fair.

  2. The allowed MMR gap is larger than ever due to introducing roles

  3. Autofill makes MMR estimation even more inaccurate when someone gets a role they don't play.

  4. Your suggestion to "copy others" is very appropriate, as Riot loves to do that.

LPelican 1 votes

{quoted}

toxic experience for me and very frustrating, to the point where, and I'm gonna be honest, got be perma banned twice on 2 other accounts because I couldn't just stay silent , and I just exploded on these motherf**kers (sometimes, you gotta let out of all the soloQ stress, man!).

  • **Stop focusing on what's said in game chat, bring back the tribunal!

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