League's new AMA is very interesting...

[@Noobieswede]

The stat tracking thing should imo go in the same direction as dota, after each game you can see exactly how much damage each item and all of your abilities did on their own. More information is never wrong and it being "confusing" to newer players just feels wrong imo, I've never heard someone complain about them having information displayed.

[@sandeboe]

Agree, was a bummer that they removed the stat tracking on items in S14. Glad they're considering bringing it back!

[@H2SO4pyro]

It feels so weird that some random items get stats displayed but others don't...

[@dinocharlie1]

I'd agree more information is never bad with the caveat that for newer players you can get information overload so leaving it in the tab with the charts for damage done/healing/ damage taken would be nice then you can toggle abilities and then make it where hovering an item shows the effect amount. You don't HAVE to look at it, but if you do it's not mid match which is good for preventing overload to a point.

[@Noobieswede]

Agree. Displaying everything after the game is the best approach imo.@@dinocharlie1

[@henriquealves1957]

And it's a game where EVERYTHING is about information. Imagine having summoner spells or ultimate cooldowns timers visible if anyone on you team has seen they using their spells. It's not hard but very annoying having to track 5 timers when you could just press tab. I hate riot neglecting voice comms and not giving any sort of improvement on communication at all. Chat is slowly dying, pings are in a awkward position... What can we do?

[@Matsupitsu2nd]

not seeing dmg stats of items makes it so much harder to know are you throwing or not since not every item works with all champions. Wtf does it mean its easier for newer players not know dmg stats? How else you know was your build good

[@alexhansen8937]

Because riot has some of the most brain damage out of any dev team

[@marcosmauricio7805]

Sounds like they got lazy and went with the first excuse that came to mind

[@hypnopump]

Dei pr talk

[@porky5567]

yeah in fact i would say the opposite is true if you play champ a lot your probably better at gauging the effectiveness of a given item

[@ibrahim5463]

Only ryscu can make hand claping sound with his mouth

[@AuxLawson]

It's swiftly becoming one of my favourite reoccurring segments.

[@lighting7508]

5:38

[@pooplord6688]

went into comments looking for this

[@dodolul9016]

seeing league/ RIOT interact with its community again is a relief

[@sillyfrenchdog]

They do not listen or listen to a soraka main who cannot play riven

[@JordianLoL]

They have been interacting with the community since beta. Do you just get confused because they go a few months without much talking something?

[@Hammytb]

4 years isnt a few months @@JordianLoL

[@Vanished584]

They communicate all the time. The only time they stop talking is when they get bullied.

[@SK-do5rv]

Vanguard hasn't been removed yet

[@Netherim]

It's very refreshing to see Riot change their approach towards their interactions with the community

[@jethro87]

Yes, thanks to that we can read gems like "(...) it's easy to overlook how difficult and confronting it is to look at tooltips in the first place, so we wanted to reduce this burden by some amount." 9 deck slots striking again, this time we're too stupid to look at tooltips. Whenever I was hovering over the item description my mind went blank because I already had to learn the skills of 5000 different champions, so reading a line of information will overheat my brain. We need more AMAs.

[@ouroborus6951]

@@jethro87 As a new player cite right

[@renkuria]

Restoring communication after cutting it off is probably because of player base numbers continuing to decline thus they were forced to.

[@Bsebt]

Just waiting to see them flounder this tbh. I want this to succeed but their track record betrays them for anything related to listening to community so we will see

[@timely7335]

Yes, duo q is is for the social aspect/fun. Masters+ should stay solo q because it’s the competitive part of the ladder. It’s just content creators that want duo in masters+.

[@n1kl051]

Speaking of functionality improvements, 64 tick servers will solve a lot of input detection issues. There is just way too much traffict for 30tick to keep up and you even get input blocked at times.

[@SuperMG95]

I really dislike that items no longer always show how much they're actually doing in fights by default. You can't see anyone else's item's stats other than your own since you can't hold tab and shift at the same time to see the stats. Some items just straight up don't show anything either

[@chohsena627]

Being placed against duos in solo queues will obviously be more fun for one side than te other. However, just make a queue for duos where they're playing against other duos or premades in the same roles or something. Or perhaps reduce the elo the duo side gets and/or reduce the elo the solo side would lose.

[@porky5567]

imo playing with a bad dou that only work with each other at the expense of the rest of the team is the worst experience you can possibly have in league

[@einjharrelraca]

i mean. when 2 of the roles in this game aren't even fucking playable without a duo, its kinda needed. there is a reason almost every game last season had an auto filled adc in it in higher elos.

[@icyth]

Duos being unable to shitstomp randos would defeat the purpose of what Ryscu is asking for. He wants to have ""FUN"". Not have a fair match against other duos.

[@einjharrelraca]

@@icyth versus having 4/10 players in the game in what boils down to an unplayable game? Because rando supports/adcs are fucking awful. The only people against duo que are the people who don't have to deal with 50% of their agency in the game being handed to someone else.

[@jameysotelo540]

The annoying thing about recipe changes is the fact that they changed but most items tooltips in game doesnt show the actual stat changes. Hubris got hotfixed and still says 15+1 ad per statue level when its supposed to be +2 and i think it still says 60 second duration when its 90 seconds

[@Holleaux]

I don't know how removing numbers improved clarity for new players. I just started playing this game back in June and having item stats throughout the game was insanely helpful for me in determining if a item was useful or not. I honestly wish they had item stats in match history so I can refer back to them.

[@kahunaru]

Of course they are trying their best in this short time to seem like they listen and communicate/ go in a better direction, so when Vanguard is added the blow will be softer since "at least they are improving".

[@UltraDumbass]

if youre a competetive person, you play competetively, and that means youre trying your best to win, so when you fail at something it isnt fun, and when u succeed it is fun.

[@angulinhiduje6093]

A truly competitive person derives fun from improving and a loss often times is better for that.

[@biggiecheese2004]

@@angulinhiduje6093the problem is that you can lose league from something completely out of your control. you can steadily improve at a game like chess, in league you can do everything right and still lose because of someone else

[@angulinhiduje6093]

@@biggiecheese2004 looser mentality. Ofc you can't win 100% of games in a team based game but you can still improve and climb by focusing on yourself.

[@el_zamo4159]

Can you please for the love of all that is holy to put the links down in the description, so we can read more in depth? (Like linking the reddit link or the article for future stuff)

[@florianreumiller7822]

The amount of time it takes you to write this comment is double the time you'd need to Google it... Gen Z and being too stupid to google properly or fix smth not working on PC/phone. Iconic duo

[@Ryscu]

fixed :)

[@Michael-bn1oi]

​@@florianreumiller7822 You are so embarrassing. Grow up.

[@kuznyetzov]

@@florianreumiller7822 holy average league player

[@el_zamo4159]

ty@@Ryscu

[@OklahomaHotdog]

I hope they don't put 2 duo queue's on 1 team and all randoms on the other.

[@paulrei00]

Experienced this crap in previous season, duo bot plus top jungle duo in the same team, and my team was full randoms. We sucked deeply from the wery start and diff in team coordination was too big. The only guy, who averagely performed in their team was random dude at mid lane.

[@Digger-Nick]

They need to just keep duo for flex. Solo needs to be strictly solo

[@beyonddivinity7076]

​@@Digger-Nick but flex Q ist literally just a normal game, no one takes it seriuously and playing as duo in flex vs a 5 stack Team is 100000 times worse than playing solo vs duo. Im not mental enough to play League alone and since i cant duo anymore the game is dead to me rn

[@benpoke]

exactly @@Digger-Nick

[@Digger-Nick]

@@beyonddivinity7076 Ok and? Solo is solo, you shouldn't be able to have 2 people playing with each other when everyone else is not. If they are good they will completely stomp the lobby and boosting is NOT ok. If they are bad, that's 2/5 instead of 1/5 trolls on your team, basically giving you a free loss. It completely ruins the dynamic of the game

[@henriquealves1957]

Problem with duo Q in high tier is balance. When duo queueing the MMR system will put you in a harder game or another duo queue to balance things up. In low elo that's easy because you have a huge pool of players but imagine Keria and Guma duoing. They are already top .01% of player base, so how do you give them harder games? Probably dumbing down their team, and all challenger player conplain a lot on being masters players babysitters. Here's the catch: if they just permit voice comms in high tier, duo queueing would be not necessary and would be justified to not be allowed. But well, riot doesn't want voice comms and here we are

[@biggiecheese2004]

Duo Q is broken in every elo, it should be flat out removed tbh

[@dragomaster2422]

5:33 I actually did placements for this season and got placed higher than before, but I only usually play until I hit gold and then stop, so I am glad I only have to play five games of ranked and not have to worry about it anymore.

[@franjj9803]

You still need 80 points for the skin

[@olivertoth4122]

This is exactly why I go play old MMORPG's when the league community tilts me too much. Because rejoining FlyFF after like 10y was a true blessing. I asked some people about the changes to the game, immediately found a nice guild through that and they even boosted me in the beginning, so I can catch up to their levels. This is the gaming experience I miss so dearly in league...

[@MangaGamified]

I only quit MMORPG cause the P2W creep in them was unplayable, also, what publisher?

[@Shiro_Sora]

Flyff was my childhood

[@Armadan7]

​@@MangaGamifiedPlay FF14 then, no P2W possible.

[@averagejoeadventure]

Hot take: If you want to play for fun with friends, that is what flex and all the other game modes are for. I get that not everyone wants to be competitive, but I would argue that there are more places for fun and casual players in LoL already. Players that want to be competitive have one place to do so, Solo Queue. Remove duo altogether at all ranks.

[@porky5567]

hard agree it would also make flex more popular and actually give it more meaning

[@pietrolollo1233]

I agree with everything you said...

[@AngelOfMercy776]

The issue you run into is that in lanes like bot lanes where synergy is so important you can get screwed without being able to duo que. You can't trust all supports and can't trust all adcs to understand and match your play style. It's a team based game and having at least some semblance of a team base is important. And frankly if you can't find a duo to play ranked with 9/10 that's your fault and means you should probably be looking at how you treat your team mates

[@averagejoeadventure]

@@AngelOfMercy776 I get what you are saying, duo for bot lane does feel better. However, if the bot lane needing synergy were so important, how does any ADC or Support climb to challenger without duo queue? Of course it is easy to find a duo if that is the type of gameplay you want. There are plenty of different Discords focused on doing that, I have made some good friends through them. My charisma, or lack there of, is not keeping me from duoing. It is coming together with 4 other strangers on a team to try and overcome a challenge against 5 other strangers that makes me want to queue up solo instead. If two of the people on one team or the other aren't strangers and are in a VC with each other, they instantly have an advantage over the rest of us. That takes away from the experience for some people. My solution is to get rid of duos in solo queue altogether and promote Flex queue as a place for duos and teams. Maybe only allow duos, trios, and 5-mans for Flex queue. Not sure that would actually work, but they are never going to implement anything from this suggestion any way, so it is all just playing around for the sake of conversation.

[@Magnetcross]

Idk about the issue for other regions but one of the reasons why duoing in masters + NA was because of the Chinese trolls

[@Arob4343]

Seeing item stats feels super important. That helps you see if an item was actually being useful

[@NyangisKhan]

As a guy who's competitive I want duo queue from ranked removed. Ranked flex is there for "fun". From all the lobbies I've played in, the ones with duos were the most toxic. They either gang up on someone on team chat or takes the game hostage when every lane has lost hard. Also lobbies with duos are very unbalanced as the system tends to match duos with other duos. So in a lot of cases a top/mid duo who's playing for fun(basically playing a role they never play) gets matchup up against a bot/sup duo who are grinding hard. So either riot needs to match duos against each other according to their roles or just remove it entirely

[@gabrielcrooks65]

I agree. Flex is the place for competitive groups/duos, and normals are for fun. I don't understand why people are so attached to the SPECIFIC combination of "allow duo in a competitive mode against mostly solos".

[@FenrirAlter]

I really don't understand how duo queue is even a thing in ranked. If people want it for fun play it in norms if they want to play it to achieve something go flex.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

Well said.

[@viniciusrusso3552]

Duo queue should be EITHER enabled on ALL elos or Disabled on all elos. Having flex queues as team of 2, 3 or 5 would be much better to organize and remove that 1 random without friends trolling the game. Also, the queue on D1-Master 100 pdl Soloq is the ultimate garbage, because you have a LOT of people who got boosted by their friends (AKA Sona/Yummi/Nami players) and now are playing by themselves without the challenger friend to counter balance

[@gabrielcrooks65]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes. Both queue options exist already tbh. Just wish riot would enforce Flex queue. It would get taken more seriously after duo players are required to play with and against other groups.

[@ExCo19]

Bro... emote back the Pyke !!

[@zzthedon4k]

I think an underrated issue is that players just have way more gold now than they ever have. Back when you only got like 8k before important fights, you had to itemize intelligently. The bruiser/tank items were more worth it because by large, 1 bruiser/tank items ALWAYS beats 1 burst item. But then they loaded gold into every iota of the map and now you'll have like 11k before important fights, letting every character pretty much have their core 3 items every game. This is bad because scaling is naturally what kills tanks, and scaling champs naturally do stupid damage the more they scale (duh). Players lose that reason to build defensively since they're going to get oneshot anyways so they start to build burst as well. How often has a player ever built Shieldbow as one of their first three items? Never. The item is not necessarily bad but there's no point of its existence when a Kraken Slayer would do you so much good. The issue is that getting rich is so easy and the fastest way to snowball a rich lead is to build insanely high upfront damage to get rich quicker. What's the point of a shred option when a burst option would net you your 11th kill much easier, which snowballs to your 12th and so on. Yes, games last longer overall, which you think would mean less burst/more scaling champs, but how much longer? 22 minutes to 27 minutes? Who cares? You only really reach 6 items at around 35-40 minutes and games almost NEVER make it past this point. On top of that, these assassins get so fucking rich that they can literally change build paths 30 minutes into a game, to adapt to the scaling champs. 24k gold (roughly 7 items) is very common to see in 35-40+ minute games which is absolutely fucking insane.

[@bobo7918]

Duo q needs to be removed in all ranks. If you think otherwise, you are wrong. Play draft if you want to have fun.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

There's even flex for people who want groups and LP at the same time.

[@GarretGarlinger]

I think your totally right about Fun should be the Goal.

[@roanmcintyre1798]

I never understood why new accounts would be placed so high, if the majority of accounts are in silver and gold, why not just place them in silver and gold first since statistically that’s where they’ll be

[@SirAstien]

Rammus lost a lot of power from not having the bonus Armor and Magic Resist provided to him by mythic passives, ALSO riot intends to remove both Armor Runes from the secondary Rune Page. Why hasn't my Armordillo received any buffs?

[@icyth]

Rammus is OP, people say he should have a high winrate because he's a counterpick, but he counters most mages, Rammus strength is in his ability to permagank botlane not in countering AD champs. If they want Rammus to be a high winrate counter pick, they'd have to nerf his ball rolling, and buff everything else to the moon.

[@FGLBeast]

if playing with friends = fun then add 5 man voice/team wide voice comms lol, party system already implemented for premades, why not optional for whole lobby? valorant has it.

[@bijan-f]

I really didn't like item stat removal, I have no idea how effective my items are now lol

[@vladislavkaras491]

Thanks for the news!

[@MissDarknSpooky]

Speaking on the patch notes, if you use the custom item sets through your collections tab those stats are SUPER off. Jump into practice tool to confirm stats.

[@aR0ttenBANANA]

I literally just had an “Emerald” supp who was gold for the last 6 years in a diamond game so yeah… I’m sure placements got better. I only lost 1 placement game and I got put in plat so I had to win like 20 games straight to get back to diamond…

[@MsSarahET]

I am absolutely against duoq in soloq in any rank. Duoq should be a part of the Flex Queue, which should allow parties of 2, 3, and 5, and disallow 1 and 4. Duos being in SoloQ absolutely ruins what SoloQ is supposed to be.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

I am absolutely with you on that. Flex does disallow 4 but has to allow 1 because there aren't enough duos......because they're all ruining solo queue games.

[@MsSarahET]

@@gabrielcrooks65 SOOO TRUUUUUU

[@Andy-xd5dj]

I dont understand how not showing the numbers provides more clarity.

[@alexrice5626]

I don't even wanna see duo queue below diamond let alone above. Norms is for fun, ranked is for competitive play.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

And if people REALLY need group play and ranked at the same time, Flex already exists.

[@konaqua122]

So, they don't want League to be toxic BUT a huge part of toxicity is because people are competitive and don't like to lose YET they don't want to remove DUO QUEUE on SOLO QUEUE because it's fun and competitive BUT being competitive is a huge part why League is toxic YET they don't want League to be toxic BUT... Does anyone else see the problem with Duo queue in Solo queue or is that me? My other question is... Why not put duo queue in flex queue? Is it becaue playing duo against a group of 5 is unfair? Then is it fair to play Solo with two teams of two and a random?

[@alderad836]

Yep. I think duoq is unfair especially when it adc+sup or jng+solo lane

[@konaqua122]

@@alderad836 They should just remove the flex and dump everyone in Ranked since Duo queueing is essentially a team of two queued with others. It's not that different than a team of three or a team of 5. All of them are "teams" with mic comms

[@gabrielcrooks65]

I totally agree with you. Plenty of people want to play ranked in a group, and plenty of people want to queue up solo. BOTH those queue options exist NOW, but Riot doesn't have the balls to draw the line between them. If they did make flex for all groups and solo truly solo, Flex would get taken more seriously since all duos have to play there.

[@konaqua122]

@@gabrielcrooks65 What i don't understand is if their problem is queue time for flex, won't that solve the problem? I know math and i know that 3 + 2 makes 5. So, if the put duo queue in Flex, the those three man teams would have better time queue. Also, they ban 4 man queue in flex so the people who does solo in flex would haev a bad time for queue so they would goto solo queue where they should really be. A lot would be solved by simply putting duo in Flex

[@vmlinuxz]

It's not fair to say I don't get to have fun so a couple people can ramrod an OP duo qeuue strat on me and my team against my knowing or my choice. Hell they don't even tell the opposing solo players they are up against duo players unless we try and data mine it.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

Yep, I hate duo in solo queue. I wish Riot would banish duos to Flex. That's where I play ranked when I want to play with friends and we take it seriously and it's a fun competitive time.

[@aq_tv8640]

Remove Duo COMPLETELY, have SOLO queue, Flex Queue (2's and 3"s) and quickplay. Fixed the game.

[@leahsim2001]

I just woke up to miss the AMA and looked through the whole thread, and yet NOBODY EVEN ASKED WHY DID THEY NEVER MERGE SEA SERVERS

[@amilo5]

Remove duo from ranked if you want to play with friends there is flex. That also would make that mode more popular. Duo just fucks up the whole system in every rank so riot has to put in shitty mmr balance changes trying to make afformentioned voice com duo somewhat fair. That openes a whole nother can of worms.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

Preaching truth. I personally don't care either way if vc is added but it won't entirely fix duo problems. If duos are banished to Flex then Flex will get taken more seriously, since all the duos are there.

[@adouk3n]

Man wtf, duoq is worst thing in league, they need to make SEPARATE DUOQ and SOLO QUEUES

[@x-xPhobia]

Your channel makes me excited to play league again. Dunno why but your coverage gives me a sense that there is community out there I just gotta do a little looking. Also you clapping and your cats mouth moving because of it was adorable lmao

[@silenttwilight5111]

I for some reason started the season 1 divison up my last rank for some reason, so i basically went from g1 last season to p2 after my promos

[@hawks5372]

TIL I have never, in 7 years of playing league, played enough ranked in a single season to hit my ‘true rank’.

[@beyonddivinity7076]

God thanks, its actually the first season i hit Master on euw and now im literally not able to play the game. Im not psychotic enough to play this game alone and flex Q is literally just a normal game so being able to duo is pretty much mandatory for me

[@deadcandance5130]

The best solution to duoq having an advantage would be a voice chat. Every modern team game but league has this, cmon.

[@WhenYouGoMadd]

League is a team game. Solo/Duo Ranked que is a meme. There should be no restrictions on party size in League. If you are playing a team game so you can 1v9 solo carry you are playing the wrong game and you are the problem.

[@avrattamig794]

Speaking of duo q and i might be wrong on this but i believe you cant multi-queue in ranked flex? Like the gamemode where you are supposed to queue as a team

[@genkyo6]

Something could they could do is introduce duoq in masters+ for about 2 or 5 days. That way, they can test it, and if anyone that high ranked has a problem with it they could just not play ranked for those couple of days.

[@funktastix0745]

Disagree on the duo thing, it only impacts players in the top 1% of the world where ranked is extremely competitive and people really care about the unfair matchmaking it’ll cause. If masters players are really that eager to play with friends to have fun, there’s normals and other game modes to play for that.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

Exactly. There's even a ranked mode for grouped players. The only reason duos don't take Flex seriously is because Riot allows them ruin solo games instead.

[@therealoatmeal4642]

I don’t understand why they don’t make stat tracking like in tft: your item description says item gives ad or ap or whatever, and then there’s a bar below for details

[@path9760]

1- Im torn on the duo thing, ranked should be a test of skill on an even(as possible) playing field. Feels like there should be a separate solo queue and a "mixed" queue for groups of any size 1-5(5 stacks would get paired against other 5's). Having a duo on your team especially at higher ranks dramatically improves performance of atleast those 2 players and serves quite an advantage if the other team doesn't. But splitting up ranked into 2 q's seems silly at the same time - hence im torn 2- FFS add voice coms, Valorant has them and HoN had them in the past. They were no more toxic then text. Pure anecdote I think they were less because it humanized people a bit more. There would still be a mute button if people truly were toxic. This helps if they really want to keep solo/duo q as 1 thing as it tones down the communication advantage current duos get with each other. Also no one is forcing you to talk with coms if you dont feel comfortable using a mic but being able to listen in real time at a minimum helps a TON. 3- purely random thought that I think would help with burst problems that have now been around for years. Rework Hourglass to something completely new and add the CURRENT HOURGLASS USE as a SUMMONER SPELL(roughly 3min cd up for review) Bot laners can now take a tool to help protect themselves against the million+1 champs that just dive past team for the free adc gold every fight. Adds choice to midlaners who not have to choose between teleport or protecting themselves from dives depending on the match up... etc.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

To your 1st point: You are literally describing Flex queue.

[@user-3dy]

Free hourglass for everyone is just insanely unbalanced imo (specially against karthus or zed players). I agree with your 2nd point though, they should definitly add voice chat.

[@shira2151]

As a duo player they need to prevent duos from queue ranked in roles that compliment each other. Like no mid and jg or bott and supp. Mid and jg duos are toxic because they have their mid boost them and the mid roams for evéry objective or scenario. You stand no chance with a random mid. Then the team will blame you for not 1 v 2 them

[@MangaGamified]

duo or not everyone should just move on to other games like Lethal Company or something, this game is such a h0stage game

[@gabrielcrooks65]

Geniune question - how would you feel if riot removed duo entirely and moved all group queueing to Flex? Would that ruin ranked for you?

[@pietrolollo1233]

​​@@gabrielcrooks65I would be fine,I don't have anyone to climb with me either,I just have fun on my own. It's a change I would love to have,I'm worried that they forgot about that. You wanna play with friends? Just go draft,aram,flex. You want to climb "alone"? Just play solo. And I'm surprised they still haven't introduced this yet.

[@delyanskiiii]

Ranked is not for fun, it should be enjoyable but the focus is not fun. Keeping ranked as tryhard as possible would make games a lot more fair and people can express their true skill instead of getting into games with mixed up mmrs because of duo q, autofills and someone first timing a champion. If you want to play with friends and have fun just play flex or normal games.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

Yes please.

[@XtrordanistG]

Are they not going to mention the bug where you can't see item stats anywhere, as in you could see how much damage it's dealt/healed?

[@SeisoYabai]

It's literally at the end of the vid

[@genzo6514]

they removed it cuz bork was op and you could see it doing 50k dmg a game

[@LukeChudoba]

I've had my account for a while and i only gain about 19lp a win and I lose 32 lp per lose, I'm currently just finished my placements and landed in Bronze 4 and I dont know why this is happening.

[@atlas4247]

I don't get the duo queue = fun argument. Norms exist if you want to have fun, ladder exists if you want to maximize competitive integrity... right? I'd argue for no duo in any elo for ranked.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

There's even a combination of friends + ranked. Flex queue would get taken more seriously if ALL groups had to play there.

[@ewanarends5512]

I once had a guy complain about queueing with friends being too OP (in a normal game btw) and riot should disable it. The fact that this mentality exists is so sad, same for the whole solo/duo vs ranked flex. I feel like 5 man parties are not at all 'elo inflation' if you would consider being able to function in a team as a skill for the players to develop. big premade lobbies with stacked rosters is literally what worlds is all about. This is the only game I know having banned playing ranked with more than one friend.

[@kostav4448]

intresting, i am still 3 divisions below my finishing rank and im at 28/20 w/l with a 4/1 placement. but i also win +8 sometimes. its clearly still not working, riot addmited that "a very few ppl" have this problem: basicly my entire friendlist.

[@nordicpush1452]

TBH as support main i feel like most games go for 10 min normal then one of jungler/mid is strating farming me/my adc/enemy bot lane like canon minions if not a lot ahead...

[@oxycane851]

There promo ranked system is still messed up. I placed emerald 1 last season in 200 ranked games. I did my promos and got paired with consistently bad teammates all around and got placed in gold 3. I’ve played 45 games since then and gotten to plat 1. I’m still getting teammates that run it down or are in gold/silver and vice versatile in other team. I’m still getting games that are almost always pubstomps one side or the other. It’s even more rare for me to have a balanced game that’s enjoyable.

[@paulrei00]

If you look for fun in competitive queue, there is something wrong with you tbh. Normal games made for having fun - queue up and fck off from SoloQ. Duo queue in SOLO queue is nonsense across all ranks and should be deleted to it's roots.

[@anatole088]

duoQ of smurf is the biggest issue imo, and smurfs in general

[@einjharrelraca]

The only people crying about duo que are the people who's lanes aren't directly effected by someone else being in their lane at all fucking times. And as for everyone elses argument about it being unfair. you know what else in unfair, when im forced into a duo lane with someone who hard ints, and i DONT have the advantage you do of having a 4-6 level lead by default cause of my role. i just get to be fucked with no recourse on my end.

[@xeakpress]

'Timmy turmanator' is CRAZY

[@fongkelyj335]

why dont solo/duo queue stays solo only and let duo queue go flex? currently theres no reason for 3 person to play flex cause solo and duo player go to solo/duo, 4 is not doable and most of the time you need 5 for a functional queue in game

[@gabrielcrooks65]

Yes, requiring duos to go to Flex would fix Flex from being disregarded and having long queue times.

[@chatheboosted]

It's competitive for a reason. If u want to have fun play norms.

[@muyleche_]

Still waiting to see if we'll ever have news on more than 5 bans, or if crit chance will ever revert back to 25%. It was reduced to 20% with the arrival of Mythics, but as those are now gone, the argument behind keeping it at 20% is now gone.

[@bj_cat103]

I would disagree on duo q, there's normals, quickplay and aram for fun, ranked is for competitiveness

[@gabrielcrooks65]

There's even group ranked in Flex. Would be more populated if competitive duos were required to play there.

[@ChugNugget]

Its 6:30 in the morning. Great way to start a day

[@MariusNinjai]

Playing vs DuoQ is not fun hope they would remove it from ranked honestly wanna play with friends play draft..

[@gabrielcrooks65]

There's even a ranked mode dedicated to groups so duos can get a sense of accomplishment and earn LP together. Wish Riot actually emforced flex for duos to give Flex it's purpose.

[@NoLoseJustLearn]

I kinda wish they’d fix flex and make it for duo q. Then solo q can be solo and you can have fun in flex without compromising competitive integrity.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

Yes this is what I dream of. Although I'm not sure what's wrong with flex now?

[@ShannaroCold]

So far my ranked experience looks like a bunch of 4v5 games (either because one of ours actually leaves or just keeps the biggest distance from everyone else in game). More than 25% of my games was like this. But yeah it is nice to be back to my previous rank fast but I will not expect any progress due to these fun matches.

[@danielcabrera2153]

I have had the exact same experience, the difference in player experience in my matches is just too wide and it makes it impossible to climb.

[@Hex-Maniac]

Just chill in ranked until they add Trueskill2

[@AidanWR]

Wow, can't believe you left that Pyke hanging

[@Shirosaki_Ichigo]

last season was disastrous so many inflated ranked new accounts plats and emeralds for just starting out the game is wilddd. Because of the inflated ranks, the mmr system matched emerald and plats with bronze and silvers

[@MrColada]

Duoq should be deleted from rank all together. If you want to play with friends there norms and flex already, so that’s never a valid argument to allowing something that clearly reduces competitive integrity in rank.

[@Bellicose]

I got a guy on a new acc who went 0/24 within 20 mins for his first placement game in a Emerald 4 mmr match up and unfortunately he was on my team. I'm actually getting sick of whichever Iron elo reject with no hands on the mmr team who pushed these changes so he can get out of Iron.

[@VocalMabiMaple]

no answers about the vanguard situation from the AMA?

[@conanruisi]

When is riot going to add black king bar

[@marcosmauricio7805]

Oh, that explains a bit why I got Gold 1 as my initial placement this season after finishing Silver 1 on the last one. To think my highest rank ever came after a single match lmao

[@FrozyTheCube]

Hey man quite random but i wanted to ask if youre reading this. When you zoom in to yourself while talking, where is the background from? it feels very familiar to me

[@ghoulamvs4887]

omg- are you using the nintendogs OST???

[@remusmocanu3390]

Unpopular opinion, they should just remove duo queue altogether, ranked should be played for competition not for fun, and people should go in normals if its for fun. Also should be removed because as you said duos automatically have a small advantage over randoms.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

There's even a place for people to have fun with friends AND get ranked up at the same time: Flex. No reason for duos in solo q

[@kobaiaxii]

A lot of weird feelings on the new rank changes. Its definitely a good change of pace, but I went from Having peaked in G4 (2020) to playing in plat 1/emerald lobbies, getting Plat3 on my FIRST md5 game.

[@fl8486]

as a grandmaster player i do NOT want duo queue in higher mmr. I'm not going to play against chinese master yi funnelers, brain dead rengar one tricks with ivern duos, and hyper elo inflated supports that duo with challengers then for some reason think theyre good enough to queue alone and grief the whole team.

[@ThundererR64T]

I have an idea that i want to submit to riot which might sound very good, a lobby where you can choose a champion before hoppign in, then you'll be with lots of other players and you can challenge some for a 1v1, it would be also cool to not have a ranked system in it at all, just raw 1v1 for no purpose other than fun and testing champions or doing trickshots all sorts of stuff.

[@Kultyras]

Playing with a duo atm feels imposible to climb. We were Diamond/Master and we only get Q'd against Master/Gm and Chall with emerald and diamonds on our team...

[@vladutmihai1705]

I was Emerald duo q with a friend and the rest of my teammates where 3 lvl 30 accounts... You can imagne how that went.

[@gadrielvanorion9872]

they knew EXACTLY that burst is an issue when all the items hit pbe and they did NOTHING to change that

[@hyperN1337]

I think the comparison to classic vs retail WoW for solo vs duoQ is a bit of a partial miss on your exact point, since that would imply that them adding duoQ would force you to need to find a duo to queue to play ranked at all. The more realistic way I see it is, and this is exactly how it works in both classic and retail and league itself is that you *should* still try to be social and find people to queue with, cause its faster, easier, and more reliable vs letting the systems matchmake you, in WoW, in league, leaving it to the matchmakers is a sure way to get put into a dungeon(or league match) with 4 loaves of bread for teammates. Also Emerald is still a mistake.

[@DaniTheHero]

There's a huge difference between, removing duo queue entirely, and removing it from essentially 0.2% of the playerbase in the form of Incredibly high ladder ranks. It's safe to say that if you're playing on a Masters+ level, most of you aren't there for the pure "fun" of it but for the sheer compeititiveness (Or addiction). Ladder intergerity should triupmth there. That being said, I can see the argument that competitive or "Serious" players have around duo-queue as whole. It leads to a reality where honestly, the non of the ranks below D1, really have any merit, due to the amount of people with elo inflated accounts from having carrying duos(From friends, paid boosting, or online LFG's). Especially regarding many supports mains, where I'd argue a third of them between Emerald and Diamond, would never have MMR beyond gold if they played entirely on their own initially. MANY Enchanter mains, are incredibly Rank/Elo inflated to a point where it's almost insulting lol. The amount of D4 Nami/Lulu/Yumi/Soraka mains, and you know the exact type of people I'm referring to, that have NO idea how the game really works, is absurd. If you two Grandmasters buddies want to play together, there's always normal queue. Which isn't to say it would be any fun for your opponents, but at least nobody losses on any points.

[@LostAccount404]

What is duo que? there is already solo duo que? and a only duo quo makes no sense since there are 5 team members and there would always be a solo person. So what should a duo que be

[@Hertz2laugh]

The MMORPG game genre is built around social interactions. The MOBA game genre is not. You're meant to role-play with a "massive" number of other players in WoW. You're meant to win in (ranked) LoL. Ranked LoL should prioritize competitive integrity over social interactions. Other game modes can prioritize things other than competitive integrity. What's happening here is that you want two conflicting things at the same time. If you want a more social game experience, play Normal games, Custom games, and ARAMs, or Rotating game modes. Let there be at least one game mode in LoL that prioritizes competitive integrity.

[@gabrielcrooks65]

There's also Flex! For groups of people who want to chase LP together.

[@Knicks176]

As someone who never has nor ever will reach master tier, let me explain to you how this will greatly effect me

[@JonasPoppe-kk7iv]

i think if they would just add voice comms being able to duo queu wouldn't be such a big problem

[@vmlinuxz]

Agreed, but as it is duo bot laners are just fucking terrible to play into. Also solo top laners just get abused. It's a solid unfair advantage. Also you end up with some OP duo's that only work if people have practiced them and are planning on them before the game starts like the old Taric mid Yi Jg that they had to make all sorts of game changes just to correct it for a duo strat.

[@JonasPoppe-kk7iv]

@@vmlinuxz true playing with a actual friend with a strategy is always going to be better than just having to communicate with pings if you add voice chat in champ select you can still make a good strat/teamcomp and it would fix alot of the toxicity compaired to just typing in chat it would just make it more sweaty

[@_Dearex_]

Placed higher in ranked than last season, i am currently 0-7 in soloq. I love the support item changes but as last (every) season, matchmaking is just rng...

[@DutchWill]

I don't like DuoQ. When i get premades on my team they usually suck and when they are on the enemy team they are very good. Premades also quite often only play around eachother and ignore the rest of the team. Especially when one of them is the jungler, they will usually just camp the lane that their friend is in and acts like the other lanes don't exist. If they want to have fun with friends, why can't they just play normal games or flex together? There are enough options to play League together. In my opinion DuoQ in ranked should be removed, it usually makes the experience worse for everyone else in the game.