No Solo Queue -> Leagues Completely Worthless
Except when Solo Queue was in the game people complained queue times were long for teams, so in either case they can’t win.
Colin said the PvP community has skyrocketed since then. If anything is going to kill that community is the fact that solo queuers are not willing to feed kittenty premades wins anymore.
It’s a lot more than just the solo vs pre-made issue that makes them worthless:
1- You have people losing games on purpose at the start of a tier so they tank their MMR to a point they will get a string of favourable matchups to go on a winning streak and make it to the next tier.
2 – You have the current “top” team on the leaderboards (EU) queueing up at 4am when the good teams don’t play to farm, and obviously when there are mainly solo/duo players at that time.
3- If you watched Helseth’s stream a while ago you would have seen the current “top” team vs Helseth duo queuing, he also ended up with another member of the aforementioned “top” team who had queued solo on his side, who decided to spend most of the match pretending to play to throw the game for his team.
4 – You lose pips if a party member DC’s, even if you win…
And of course you have the solo/duo/pre-made issue, so yes all-in-all it is completely worthless and a masterpiece of incompetence.
(edited by zinkz.7045)
Totally agree – What are the chances that by the end of the season, not a single solo player will have made it out of Emerald – Pretty high I would say.
The whole focus on E-sports and catering to a tiny tiny tiny tiny minority of elite players is causing a lot of resentment amongst the vast majority of players.
(edited by Daroon.1736)