Regarding this statement froma red on reddit regarding dynamic Q
"Trust me when I say that Dynamic Queue is resulting in a better experience for an overwhelming majority of players."
How can you guys so confidently make statements like this? Why should I "trust" what you say about MY experience in playing ranked this season?
Why is it that you don't distinguish the improvements in ranked between the new champion select and dynamic queue?
Every time you guys talk about how great of an improvement dynamic queue has been you don't attribute anything to the new champion select.
Now look, I do agree dynamic queue is great... if you play with a group.
BUT the fact is the majority of hard core league players take pride in their own PERSONAL skill and knowledge of the game. And we like having a SOLO queue rank to back that up.
Yeah sure you can still play solo in dynamic queue and if you're actually better than the opposition then you'll win more games than not and will still be able to climb the ladder. However, when you're grinding games solo and you get a game where your team has a 2 man + 2 man with you solo vs a 4/5 man premade you feel helpless against their coordination, their setups for ganks/dives in lane, their preparation for objectives, their shot calling in team fights, etc, and it DESTROYS your morale. This a point I heard Alex Ich make in an interview that I saw this morning regarding practicing in solo queue and getting matched against 5 man challenger/lcs teams that are going 100% and doing lane swaps.
You should not have solo players vs organized teams in the same ranked match. At any ELO. Period. It ruins the point of playing ranked for anyone who's not a team.
For you to sit there and tell me to "trust you" and that "dynamic queue is resulting in a better experience" is not only an insult, but it tells me you as a company are ignoring all the pleas of people crying out on reddit, the message boards, and even all of the LCS pros/streamers that inspire your player base and help keep people interested in the game.
What I think you should do is keep dynamic queue. Make it for 3 man +. And give us solo/duo queue back. Or make dynamic queue duo + and give us a STRICTLY SOLO queue.
It's not like dynamic queue will go to waste. There are a ton of players out there who don't have a 5 man group to run with but do enjoy playing in a ranked setting with 2-3 other friends. When people want to group up they can do so at will without having to register a 5 man team. Dynamic queue will still be very popular.
Also Riot please keep in mind that there are players who like to play a ranked setting with friends, but at other times would like to have a setting for playing ranked SOLO where you can be ranked on how well you perform INDIVIDUALLY and miss having a rank to back that up.
If it's the queue times your worried about increasing I have another proposal that would help alleviate queue times.
New champion select is great. But here's how you can make it better.
Currently you can queue for 'fill' which essentially opens you up to playing 5 different roles.
However if you specifically pick "mid/jg" you're now only limited to two possible roles.
You can pick 'mid/fill' which also opens you up to 5 roles with 'mid' being priority. Right now nobody really does this unless they enjoy support because as we all know picking 'fill' for any role gives you support 90% of the time.
But what if you play mid, top, or jg, but for whatever reason you strictly don't play bottom lane? What if you play top, mid, adc, sup but absolutely do not play jungle? There is no option for these players and opening an option would drastically reduce queue times.
What you can do is remove "fill/x" option and allow players to pick between "role 1/ role 2" "FILL" or "fill except X" (if you really wanted you could give us an option for "fill Except x or y")
This would allow us to queue for 2 roles, 3 roles, 4 roles, or 5 roles,
Right now you can queue between 2 roles or fill.. Which actually means you can queue for 2 roles or support.
I just want to make one more point regarding playing solo in dynamic queue.
You tell us it's only 5% of the time that you'll be matched with/vs a 4/5 man premade in dynamic queue, however, the fact that it can happen AT ALL removes all validity of anyones rank in dynamic queue.
What if I'm 2-2 in promo's to get out of gold and the 5th game tie breaker I just so happen to be grouped with a duo and 2 solo players vs a 4 man premade and 1 solo player? Even though I won lane and roamed enough to get 18 kills for myself playing zed mid, we still get out rotated for objectives and aren't on the same page with waiting for cooldowns to fight teamfights late game and end up losing solely because of lack of coordination vs a premade of 4 who regularly play together.
Even though I won lane and was able to outplay each person on their team individually I still lose late game because we as a team are not able to coordinate well enough for the final team fight in which my jungler engages while my flash, GA, ignite, and ultimate are all on cooldown and so we lose the fight because I wasn't able to assassinate the enemy vayne. Which I would have been able to do had we all been on the same page and waited for my cooldowns or worked together more in setting up picks or baiting them in to a more favorable fight for us.
This is exactly how my last promos went and let me tell you it is extremely frustrating. The fact that this can happen at all completely ruins ranked for me. I am much more proud of my rank knowing I achieved it on my own off of my own skill/knowledge at the game and don't require 4 other people on voice comms to be able to carry and win games.
But just knowing I can go vs a premade who is able to out rotate my team and win no matter how good I am or how hard I shut down their midlaner is INFURIATING. It completely removes the joy I used to find in playing ranked and climbing the ladder and as a strictly solo player I will have to stop playing league if you guys do not decide to give us a solo queue rank system. I am very sure I'm not the only one.
