Question to those who want solo queue back:

Atanchan·4/1/2016, 11:49:45 PM·1 votes·875 views

What drugs are you on?

No, seriously, I need to see if I can get my doctor to recommend me a prescription. It's humanly impossible to grind out the games to improve your 1v5 skills to climb the ladder and not get frustrated before you make any progress, so I figured there's some altered brain chemistry going on here. But I have no idea what would make you chill enough to not suffer through all of this while still having enough mental faculties to play well and hold onto the determination to improve, so I'm just flat-out asking you guys.

So, be a good sport and spill the beans, will ya?

22 Comments

ValyrianBlade4/1/2016, 11:56:02 PM5 votes

a) don't have people I know IRL that play league AND are around the same ranking as me. b) I can climb solo, I did it last season and I'm doing it so far this season. If you think it's impossible, you're either bad or you're setting unrealistic goals. You won't win EVERY game, or even two thirds, but you'll climb if you play well. c) I don't play often, so I can't exactly create a regular schedule with a consistent team

Take your pick?

Virgin Ray4/1/2016, 11:52:46 PM4 votes

Maybe because not all of us have friends available to grind ranked? And if we decide to go solo we don't want to get stomped by a premade 5 skype caller group. Which is also called not fair just in case you haven't noticed.

Sakaru4/1/2016, 11:53:45 PM3 votes

I don't even play Ranked and I still understand exactly why, so allow me to explain friend:

Solo-Queue and Dynamic Queue are frustrating for different reasons, and some people find one more frustrating than the other.

In Dynamic Queue you have a LOT (Since you get 0 in Solo Queue) more teams of 4 people being teamed with you, and hating on you all game because you aren't one of them. You also get more teams with 1 high tier and 1 low tier player, completely ruining the balance of your game.

You also completely lose out on a separate ranking that's based purely around your own ability to team up with strangers and progress up the ladder.

There are plenty of other reasons I, personally; can't think of well since I don't play ranked. By aye. You already know why Solo-Queue can be frustrating though,s o I won't bother with those examples.

ff4sk4/2/2016, 12:26:00 AM2 votes

Maybe because a lot of us are tired of playing against/with boosters, smurfs, trolls, people who got boosted.

I'm tired of playing with people who favor their premade friend over the rest of their teammates. I'm tired of playing with boosted players who can't play for shit and losing because of them. I'm tired of trying to climb while being matched up vs boosters getting paid to boost shit players like yourself. If you wanna dick around and play with your friends that's fine, normals exist, or keep dynamic queue, just give us solo queue because we are tired of dealing with you.

Atanchan4/2/2016, 12:17:12 AM1 votes

Man it's really easy to tell that nobody's reading past the first line of this post, huh?

Either that, or no solo queue supporter can actually prove that they aren't all robots.

Jaj2ed4/2/2016, 12:27:06 AM1 votes

It's also hard not to get frustrated to play against organized 4 man premades or have them on your team when they flame you constantly or just don't talk at all. :^)

Shadowhawk4/2/2016, 6:02:56 AM1 votes

Firstly, let me point out that you didn't actually ask the question but instead threading your post with unnecessary insults to antagonize instead of having the purpose to have a meaningful discussion. However I will answer your question regardless.

The system is easily manipulated for lower skill players to climb by using higher ELO friends to carry them.
It isn't a fun experience to be paired with a team of 4 than constantly berates you (period).
As a result of the first point, the symbolic value of Soloque is lost as a result. For example, most people that play Soloque play it to assess individual skill. As a result, it being less of an accurate gauge to assess this is understandably an insult that this symbolic value has lost a part of its meaning.
(Regarding your response to Sakaru) Your notion that you think that Soloque is a dumb concept in a team game is your personal opinion that many people do not share. Meaning that your devaluing of those opinions is a clearly narcissistic way of looking at things.
The LCS is a measure of skill of 5v5 teams and therefore cannot be compared to Soloque at all. This analogy is a ridiculous as comparing dynamic que to LCS because it wouldn't be realistic in LCS if Doublift and Aphromoo randomly got paired in a game with Bjersen, Marin, and Oddone.

Let me finish this by making a risky assumption but one that I think may be true regardless. You are currently Bronze 3, not using this as an insult but maybe (as every person wishes) you wish to be ranked higher. Venting by calling something that you are succeeding in is precisely the problem. Much like calling a champion OP because you cannot beat them. Before you make a post only to facilitate angry replies you should first go in with a mindset of trying to learn, not assert dominance.