Low Priority Queue?

Kewlipo·May 10, 2016·4 votes·2,727 views

Heyo. This isn't mean to be a hate thread at all. <- Just a heads up!

Honest question, am I in low priority queue... in Plat II?

Past few games I have been with some truly distasteful teammates, who do nothing but blame each other. Last game I had an afk. This is all in Plat II, where I don't usually see this stuff....

Here are a few pictures of some of my most recent games:

Note the AFK, and the feeding teammates. http://imgur.com/ugdFouL

Another similar game, where Azir and Fiddlesticks constantly argued about who was more "Bronze," (irony). http://imgur.com/czbH201

I am curious, did I suddenly get dropped in a lower priority queue? Or am I just unlucky?

I am really trying to get to Diamond, but stuff like this just drops my moral to zero.

11 Comments

LeoriteMay 10, 20162 votes

How did Lux shit the bed mid-lane against Lee..

I'd say you're just unlucky and matched with tilted teammates.

KewlipoMay 10, 20161 votes

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How did Lux shit the bed mid-lane against Lee..

I'd say you're just unlucky and matched with tilted teammates.

In her defense, although she did make some very bad ganks bot lane which resulted in a few team losses, she was camped by Fiddle because we had no jungle presence. However, she failed to ward her lane at all, which meant she pretty much had it coming.

LeoriteMay 10, 20161 votes

Ah well, a camping jungler doesn't help.

Guess she should've just been more safe.

MunchyBichyBalzMay 10, 20162 votes

I've made a similar post before asking if such a thing exists, and the answer was "No" there is no different queue for "less desirable" players or "low priority" or anything like that, everyone is in the same queue. I'm not sure I believe it.

I once had 12 consecutive matches with a dc or afk. Twelve matches in a row. Two nights of playtime wasted, all twelve were losses except one 4v5 we managed to win. There is no way that was in regular queue, I just refuse to believe it. Then the first match where I didn't have an afk on my team the enemy team had an afk on theirs. Pretty ridiculous.

Sythriel DrakenMay 10, 20161 votes

I think riot purposely does matchmaking this way to drum up more reports. For example: I was on a win streak two days ago. My MMR didn't go up by that much, but hit normal for my division. these past 6 games where I've lost have been super toxic, almost to the point of me becoming toxic myself because that's ALL that I've had to deal with for the past two days.. Reports are doing nothing, hell Lyte quit because riot doesn't want actual humans to deal with toxic players but computers. You get a 10 game chat restriction for finally blowing up on the 10th toxic person you've encountered in your day..

am I on tilt now? Yes, because I get demoted because our top ekko goes AFK, our blitz support decides to flame everyone, the enemy j4 manages to double smite a dragon, and our adc decides to intentionally feed after our mid laner took some of her cs..

This game honestly has gone to hell and dynamic queue was the start of it.

KewlipoMay 10, 20161 votes

Ouch.

King of BMMay 10, 20161 votes

Rito banned me around 20 times with low prior queue. I EVEN GOT BANNED ON PBE. I rarely quit games but hey I play on 230ms and 10 fps where I randomly dc for 1-2 seconds and rarely 2 minutes.

http://imgur.com/LE3ShWC http://imgur.com/a/lXLtx

and i kept getting banned for that :) :) :)

KewlipoMay 10, 20161 votes

I just played another.

Same attitudes among all of my teammates. (It's all your fault, anyone who plays Yasuo is trash, I am God but my teammates bring me down, etc...)

I am done for tonight.

Maybe it's just Monday night luck that's biting me hard.

Sigh.

I don't even recall getting a warning or transgression, and for the past few weeks I have gotten the, "your report punished _____" message three times.

Anyone have confirmation of me being in low priority queue?

KewlipoMay 10, 20161 votes

{quoted}

I just played another.

Same attitudes among all of my teammates. (It's all your fault, anyone who plays Yasuo is trash, I am God but my teammates bring me down, etc...)

I am done for tonight.

Maybe it's just Monday night luck that's biting me hard.

Sigh.

I don't even recall getting a warning or transgression, and for the past few weeks I have gotten the, "your report punished _____" message three times.

Anyone have confirmation of me being in low priority queue?

Oh, and did I mention the toxic players in question were a duo queue?

Darius Darius Darius <- Rage face

ZaryelleMay 10, 20161 votes

I just had a game where we had a bot teammate, all I did was call out the fact they were a bot, saying 'Watch Ashe's movement, it's clearly a bot'.

I wasn't trying to start anything just call it to their attention so they wouldn't rely on Ashe for much.. and then the other 2 players started flaming me for the rest of the game and ignored how Ashe basically wasn't even playing cause it was a bot. No one acknowledged that Ashe was contributing less than an AFK, they all just directed their rage toward me.

I haven't had any toxic people for like 20 games, so I was surprised, and I imagine you have those same kind of special people in your games recently.

Chibi VydraMay 11, 20161 votes

Low priority queue just means longer match making times, not toxic teammates. Since queue times are starting to get a liiittle higher in plat, usually around 4-8 minutes, it shouldn't effect how long you wait too much anyway. Also, you're informed if you're put in the low priority queue. Plat's just a toxic tier, anyone who's been through it will tell you. I was actually perma-banned as soon as I got to plat lol