Match making ideas

hotdogsaregud4ya·2/14/2017, 5:23:35 AM·1 votes·361 views

Not sure which category match making idea goes but I had an idea. Since riot has separate ranked match making queues for solo/duo and flex(old dynamic queue) which I think is not a bad idea, why not do that for normals as well? I know people always say "it's just normals", but some people ONLY play normals and not ranked or aram etc. Normals is life for some and if ranked and normals are on the same map why not give them separate queues for whether you solo or if you play 2-5 man party? Might sound silly but I have some reasons why

  1. Partying with friends make an impact on the results and overall experience as when dynamic queue was the only queue for ranked, a lot of people complained that it was not competitive (too difficult) to play as solo versus enemy that is partied up. It's the same in normals as sometimes i would play normal blind pick on summoner's rift and when I get teammates who are partied, it's either we win hard because the people partied are really coordinated and good, or we lose hard because the people who are partied are not so great but get matched against higher skilled randoms who are not partied. The reasoning is because it's to balance the fact that they are partied so skill is unbalanced. Normals to me and I'm sure others, matters as much as rank do because it's not about the league points but the morale of playing the game.

  2. I personally play league for fun as it is a game, and I have fun playing it with my friend. I'm not trying to brag but my skill is much higher than my friends, and I don't mind playing with him because it is more fun to have a friend I can enjoy the game with and talk about it afterwards rather than just playing with a bunch of random people who just disappear after the game and you find new randoms. I always feel like we are going to lose more than half our matches when we play together because of how match making works and I understand how it works how it is harder for us to win unless we carry because we are the reason the enemy are overall a slight bit higher in total of match making rating to balance out the teams. But one thing that makes me really mad is the effects afterwards and ill explain it in 3.

  3. So the problem is that for example, if I played normals around platinum skill level (not saying i do just an example), and my friend is not level 30 yet, we will get pairred up with people under level 30 or some silvers or bronze which I totally understand. But it gets me really mad that after my friend gets off and I play games alone, I start getting teammates who are around that skill level still where I get some people not even level 30, silvers and bronze rather than my normal gold to plat enemy and teammates. It makes me not want to play with my friend because I am afraid of the mmr drop that I suffer because of playing with him even though it isn't his fault.

This is why I believe match making in normals should be divided whether you are solo or partied. Because I want to play around and have fun with friends in normals where we team up because I don't care if it makes it more difficult to win when playing with friends as long as I get to play with them, it's fun. But I don't wish to suffer when I play alone after pairing with them as this game is meant to still try and focus on winning in normals or suffer penalties as you can't just troll feed afk etc. The point is that you still need to try to win just you are allowed to try out new things in normals as it is kind of like practice and doesn't affect your ranking. So normals still do matter regardless of what people think how they say "chill it's just normals". That's not an excuse to troll or not try to win. I don't want to start playing with people around my team's average mmr when it isn't mine personally so I beg you riot, please make separate queues for normals as you did with ranked, would help out a lot.

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