[Yet another unpopular opinion] You may hate dynamic queue, but I'm calling your bluff.

Lao Fu the Tiger··5 votes·403 views

I play mostly solo when I queue for ranked, and here are my observations. Of course, these are personal, from a mid-Gold elo, and may be different for everyone, but here's what I've noticed personally without any favour for or against dynamic queue.

  1. Getting paired with 4-man premades is extremely rare. I've been paired with them maybe 3 times. Yes, somebody will always be with a 4-man, but the chances that it will be you are pretty small, ultimately.

  2. Of those few 4-man premades, only 1 was a toxic group. One was neutral (they just let me do my own thing and they did theirs) and one actively welcomed me to the group and wanted the best for me. I even added a couple of the players afterwards.

  3. Getting a mixed group (1-2 per queue vs. 5-man) was also extremely rare. Granted this probably happens much more often than my elo, but with such a huge playerbase in lower elo, it's rarely a problem. I would assume matchmaking trying to avoid this situation could be part of why queues are so long. That's just a guess, though.

My personal opinion is that the boards is taking every worst-case-scenario and making that appear to be normal behaviour, when it's edge case behaviour. I don't think this is an accurate assumption. However, I do understand that yes, these scenarios do happen, and when they do, it sucks.

Toxic people create toxic games all the time. That would apply to any queue.

2 Comments

Oleandervine1 votes

I think all this complaint about the Solo Queue and Dynamic Queue as well as the long load times and the perceived "shrinking of the playerbase" are all tied to the very high end of ranked play, where the actual number of players at that level is very small and tiny issues in any other game setting become amplified. I play normals and honestly, I agree with your post, I have currently never encountered a premafe group larger than 2 in my games. Furthermore, my queue times are around 2 minutes tops. The reason top tier ranked is doing so poorly is because this season is unpopular and many people don't want to go through the effort to travel up beyond gold.

SonaTitsAndAss1 votes

its the boards it a bitch fest. they will exaggerate everything its like tumbler however I personally as a plat 2 (top 3.2%) player do think we need solo q.

I dont think dynamic Q effects the low elo that much but the high elo it does. The is pretty much always a 2/3/4 premade (mostly 3) and it will be one dude slightly above the elo and 1 dude whos from way lower. like every game on both teams the be 1 person who is from silver last season and they only premade now.

And its generally became a game of (jungle searches all the camps) (jungler finds the silver) (jungler camps the shit out of the silver and snowball)

like I really dont belong with my winrates. I got 77% winrate on yi over 52 games and most of them where before "yi is op" and in the "yi is shit" patch simply because he was perm banned but it basicaly be. Find the silver. Camp him. Snowball.

Any jungler in my elo that doesnt do this is making the game harder for themselfs and yi arnt the only one i got sej with a 65% winrate over 23 games and i only played her when yi was banned. All my other junglers are on a 50% winrate or higher. but this dynamic queue thing is an issue. You either abuse the shit out of the boosted and in that case its not fair because its like im smurfing or ignore the fact and let their higher skilled friend carry them more.

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