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How closely ranked will you need to be with your Queue buddies..

Attack Dmg·1/14/2016, 5:46:12 PM·1 votes·591 views

So here's the text from the ranked season improvements release from the Riot team...

"This upcoming season we're replacing the solo/duo queue with a dynamic group queue, where you'll be able to climb the ladder with any number of teammates, going from single participation all the way to a full team comp. There's no longer a penalty for players ranking together, so the benefits of grouping up will always prevail. You'll still need to be of similar rank to your queue-buddies, and the system is designed so that groups will almost always play against similarly grouped opponents (so if you're in a premade five, there's a 95% chance you'll run into another premade five), but now you'll be able to compete the way you want to."

What I'm curious about is how close "similar rank" will be. I play very casually in silver and my friends/family all play casually in bronze. We are looking to get a little more serious but that will be tough if they need to escape bronze. Anyone have any idea about this? Riot...? Anything...?

5 Comments

EagleEye0071/14/2016, 5:52:40 PM3 votes

If it's the same as duo queue rules from last season you'll need to be within 1 tier. So if you were silver 3 for example you could play with people who were bronze 3 to gold 3. All that changes this season is all the members you queue with need to be within a tier of eachother.

So your friends don't necessarily need to escape bronze, they just need to be as high up in bronze as you are in silver.

LaoBushido1/14/2016, 5:50:11 PM1 votes

Could you elaborate on your question a bit more? Because the only what you can "escape bronze " as a group would be to get practice together

Live2LetDie1/14/2016, 6:14:32 PM1 votes

Eagle is correct. 1 teir +/- your rank