A 5-man premade should NEVER be paired against solo players

Eph289·7/23/2014, 4:06:43 AM·6 votes·906 views

It's the most wonderful experience playing against a 5-man premade as a solo player. I'm so glad matchmaking gave me the unique opportunity to see how OP teamwork is by completely disadvantaging my team. It's fantastic getting outkilled, out-dragoned at a 2-1 ratio and out-towered at a 3-1 ratio. I'll accept my losses and my mistakes as part of the process of playing League, but exceptionally biased matchmaking just grinds my gears. It feels like this is one of Lyte's cruel social experiments. "Teamwork is OP. I'm now going to reinforce that point by placing YOU, a solo player, up against a 5-man premade. Enjoy, and don't forget to buy RP!"

Yeah, I'm a little salty, but is it so unreasonable to expect that 5-mans would get paired against . . . other 5-mans?

5 Comments

Camphene7/23/2014, 5:28:42 AM3 votes

The only thing worse is getting to be the solo que player in a 1+4 vs. 5. Either no one says anything the entire game or you get flamed for every thing and to top it off you get reported if you're negative kda. Their jungler tunnel visions so hard on their own team that you're screwed.

There needs to be an option to opt out of premade games but every time I post it people downvote the crap out of it.

Worgslarg7/23/2014, 12:04:20 PM2 votes

The reason there is no option is that in a group of 3/4/5 finding another group of players is somtimes impossible within reasonable queue times.

I personally find more annoying the fact that a unranked solo queue player can face a plat 5 in lane. in normals.

Phoenix Kotori 7/23/2014, 6:56:03 AM1 votes

They *usually *do but I agree it is often not fair nor fun when solo players are matched against them.

xWildflower7/23/2014, 1:41:55 PM1 votes

I'm level 20 and it matched me against a 3-man premade that had a Gold I in it.

we still won somehow

Beowitz7/24/2014, 4:04:19 AM1 votes

I don't think having a 5 man group in and of itself means that a team is good.

Due to a lack of knowledge on matchmaking (my thought was that everyone in PVP would be level 30 and have full rune sets and if I even tried PVP I'd just lose hard.) I, and a friend, got to level 30 (two others mid 20's and one at 20) waited until pretty recently to start PVPing. (played bots prior). And I feel that put us as a group in a really bad situation.

Even though we were 5 people who know each other personally, we weren't really a team at first. we got stomped pretty hard at first. And to my knowledge (from seeing how they move or asking) at least most should have been a 5 man team (I had assumed that it was 5 man teams VS 5 man teams after a bit.)

Not trying to complain about the bad spot though. That was a mistake on our end, and we've shown signs of improving. But more trying to say that just because it's a group of 5, doesn't mean that those 5 are as good even as 5 individuals.

To be fair though. I agree that it can easily be a problem. It typically should provide a huge advantage to the five man group (more coordination, less AFK's or disconnects, less verbal abuse etc.)