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Give us more options when Queuing (Not with premades ect)

Patrick Mcglory·7/2/2016, 10:55:06 AM·2 votes·456 views

This is kind of a moan BUT I have been wanting to raise this topic for a while about giving us more options when Queuing.

So the last few days have been pretty bad playing league, am I a bit tilted? Yes, but I've held a steady win/loss 9/11 last twenty and 128/115 KD so just fyi I'm not on a feeding rampage ect... My problem is with the REALLY bad games I've been having, it's 95% of the time (No joke) been with CLAN PREMADES. I don't really pay attention to names/tags but after the game when they've been really toxic, or their has been one player who's playing awful and flaming ppl, and the rest of the team for some reason aren't reacting to him, I see they are all in a clan.

Now while I'm sure there are legitimate clans out there, and they don't all suck the enjoyment out of a game, I have developed a strong dislike and uneasy feeling now when I see full clans, I just keep silent and wait for the toxic to spill out and it normally does tbh...

So the point of this all?** I want options when I queue for games**; options that allow me to not Q with premades in that game, options to play with solo players who won't back up their awful team mates when they throw BM's around or get you killed over and over.

I know Riot has been steering the game to be more team based and all but the thing they do not understand is THESE AREN'T TEAMS, they're normally a collection of kids who play badly together and ruin the game for team mates.

I don't care if I have to wait longer, even if every queue was 15-20 min, I'd happily play 2 games instead of 3. This should be our choice of who we want to Q with.

When I get left solo bot lane against a Shen and a Lucian, because my support got bored and went to play with his mate mid lane, that's not a 'game' that just feels like punishment, like I've done something wrong and it's a penalty I have to serve. I'd rather stare at a brick wall for 30 min.

Another BIG issue with premades I've found is communication. You won't get any pings (when I say 'any' I'm not say never ever ever, just the majority of the time...) they will often be on TS and won't bother with pings. I know this because when I started League a group I met in another game got me into it so I used to be on TS with them in premades, me not knowing any better I thought the other team mates not in our group were ass****'s for getting angry at us for not SS'ing ect, turns out we were the problem because someone on TS just mutters SS and that's it, no one really cares about that other solo guy because he's 0/2 and hasn't done anything useful, so who cares about him? Lets carry 4v5 and ignore him.

League is a team game and oddly enough, premades are sucking that out of it, you're often playing with three brick walls, because either there is little to no communication, or YOU are the one who gets flamed, or maybe the other solo player in your group gets flamed, because, who else are they going to blame? Their friend, or dump it on some nobody which makes them feel better.

I'm in low silver, maybe things improve higher up? I don't know...

**TL;DR: Give us options on how we want to Queue up. I.E with premades, without premades, without players who have toxic history in the last month ect.

Why? Because premades don't communicate with you about tactics, pings, what they are doing, if they are about to go all in ect ect, and more often than not when they do talk, it's to flame/blame you for something. Maybe feeding (Because they haven't been SS'ing) **

Would genuinely like to know other peoples thoughts and their experiences, how they deal with it, and suggestions on how this could be improved.

1 Comments

ValkyrieHeart7/2/2016, 11:43:14 AM1 votes

The only foreseeable issue I see with the, "toxic history in the past month" part, is I have seen players report others for seriously ridiculous things. Some players get tilted and report "unsportsmanlike conduct" over an accidental ks, and things generally along those lines. I agree with you, though. I think if you report a player for something, it should remove them from matchmaking with you. You shouldn't be stuck on a team with them, again. I get we can mute players, but unfortunately you can't mute feeding and AFKing on purpose. :c Riot could definitely implement some things to make more options available to use, like you said. However, it may be difficult for them to find a good way to actually set up some sort of, "avoid toxic players" system. They could if YOU report them, I think. I think it's pretty reasonable.