Teambuilder: Create a team? Invite a friend! ...why?

Blancmark·Nov 18, 2014·1 votes·1,412 views

I'm curious as to why this decision has been made. Why does creating a team in teambuilder now requires one to invite someone else, while no other modes ever require that? Honestly, I find it rather... limiting.

You might think.. "eh, everybody has at least one friend they play League with, so what's the big deal?". The big deal is basically that I haven't seen any real reason given, other than "due to popular demand", which is rather vague. Why do apparently so many people want this? And why only in Teambuilder's Create a team? Why is going into matchmaking alone fine in every case except this? Even Ranked has a solo/duo queue, no partner or team is [i]required[/i].

I'm assuming it has something to do with the new SR updates, but the context of the announcement in-game didn't really state if it was temporary or permanent.

Bottom line... I'd just like to know why this decision was made, in detail if possible, and whether it's permanent or not.

12 Comments

FedoraMan99Nov 18, 20142 votes

Id assume its to balance out the people joinging teams with the people creating teams, this way if u r going to solo in team buikder, u HAVE to join a team, so it makes more people join. Thats just my guess tho

BastionKrossNov 18, 20141 votes

Pretty much this. Too many captains, not enough people looking for a team. Forcing soloq players to look for a team instead of creating their own speeds up matchmaking.

BlancmarkNov 18, 20141 votes

I get that, but still, it's a pretty drastic restriction compared to the rest.

TehNACHONov 18, 20141 votes

With the new Summoner's Rift, it's a pretty Teambuilder is pretty drastically imbalanced atm.

BastionKrossNov 19, 20141 votes

It's just how the problem is made less painful. Desperate times call for desperate measures after all. The true solution would be giving players some incentive to queue up as a non-captain for high demand roles like jungler or support by offering more IP or something.

ThoroniulNov 18, 20141 votes

Its because people were complaining about instalockers. Team builder is good in concept, but it still seems to be in beta, and incomplete. The bad queue times, and bad skill level matchup make it not worth it for me.

BlancmarkNov 18, 20141 votes

How does one insta-lock in Teambuilder anyway? Doesn't the captain decide who gets to stay and who gets kicked?

ThoroniulNov 18, 20141 votes

Before team builder there was a normal que. Alot of instalockers and bad coordination made riot build the team builder que.

mrxsmith12Nov 18, 20141 votes

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BlancmarkNov 18, 20141 votes

Except that not everyone plays at the same times. Also, different timezones.

KevGatzNov 18, 20141 votes

They do it when there are large amounts of people making teams but not joining teams so that teams actually get filled out instead of having people wait forever in half filled teams.