SoloQ

The Lexer··2 votes·514 views

SoloQ being based entirely on wins and losses is what is hurting this game. I know Rito wants to reward the players who have good teamwork, and not just individual skill, but the problem is that it doesn't matter how much teamwork you have, it matters how much teamwork your team and the enemies team has. When your team wins all the early team fights, even 4v5s, but your adc split pushes all game and feeds the enemy so much that you lose the last team fight horribly, the first part of the game doesn't matter.

Last game, I started off 0/2/8 on support Nautilus. I ended 1/5/8 because their Caitlyn was 17/0/4 because she was picking up free kills on a Vayne who thought she could dual her all game. Their team had 30 kills. Vayne was 12 of those. This is why SoloQ rankings are not accurate. Each game is determined by who has the troll, who has the feeder, or who has the afk. SoloQ does not care how good you are as a "solo" person. It matters how good your team is compared to the enemy team

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TraakSC2 votes

If you are consistently better than the players you are facing, you will move up. It is simple math. The other team has just as much of a chance being filled with trolls as your team.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

The other team has just as much of a chance being filled with trolls as your team

Actually, that's only if you have a chance of trolling yourself. If you don't troll, your team only has 4 possible trolls while the enemy has 5 :3

TraakSC1 votes

I originally posted something similar then erased because I wasn't sure if it would make sense to anyone. I agree, if you are a good player, you guarantee at least one person on your team can help carry/win whereas the enemy team has the chance to all be bad.

Shloonz1 votes

No it's not correct. If you are unlucky and have more disconnects/trolls/afk/deaf people on your team on average then you lose rank/mmr/elo. The SoloQ is rewarding luck for a large portion. I had numerous matches where i had more kills as tank jungler than our ADC or even had more kills as support than our top bruiser. That's not because i am a good player but because i read the chat and have just a basic understanding when to fight and when to wait for reinforcements.

SoloQ rewards the people who can read chat, too. SoloQ also rewards good coping skills with your anger management.

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