Faker speaks out against Solo Queue (again)

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[VagrantKnight]

This is Riot Siraris's response about the post btw

"I don't know specifically what Faker said (re MMR) as I don't speak Korean so I'm dependent on translation, but just for clarity, this would be an issue with _matchmaking_ not MMR. MMR is simply a representation of your skill level, and while it's a factor in who you are matchmade with, it would not be the culprit causing his perceived disparity.

I also am unclear here what he's even referring to, as MMR/Matchmaking wouldn't factor into snowballing - unless the system was completely broken and it just stacked a bunch of high skilled players against low skilled players, which it should not do."

[nasko]

Faker's taken such a mental beatdown in Solo Q and for the most part has stayed quiet. If he's sick enough of the meta that he's openly critiquing it and speaking out then things must be pretty damn bad.

[shadows_star]

I think the biggest issue with the durability update was that basically due to the stats given out all being tied to level gain, the winning team will always be at a much greater advantage due to having higher levels. This contributes to the snowball thing he mentioned. Instead of just, inherently giving base higher stats overall. They tied it to being ahead so now the ahead team is unkillable while the behind team doesn't even feel like there was a durability update. Because there effectively wasn't. Especially since they actually lowered a lot of base stats with the durability update to compensate for the increased per level gains, so now if you're losing. You can actually feel squishier than it was before the durability update.

Levels were always powerful in advantage, but now it's to such an unhealthy degree. The biggest case is how it feels to play ADC. Could be three items in, losing top-laner comes down, but because they afked top and that's a solo lane, they get to 1v1 you with one item simply because their two levels on you make up the difference in stats.

[joel]

Everyone knows that matchmaking is fixed to make the climbing as slow and addicting as possible

[gugachef]

crazy... it's not like everyone else was complaining about the same issues for the past 3 years. Riot will surely listen and fix the problems now that faker is addressing them.

[simonyeager]

Faker is a player that has really strong mental. It's usually rare for him to speak out. I hope they take his opinion seriously.

[pogizsoli]

Faker might be on to something. There must be something behind massive lose and win streaks. On one of my accounts in D4 I won 8 games in a row and lost 7 games immediately after it. It's a common occurrence. I blamed it on bad rng but after hearing Faker himself call this out, I start to believe that the matchmaking system isn't so fair at all.

[quasarlgq]

I have realized one thing this new season during placements. I simply stomped or got stomped. No midway. No half the people of the team did well others did not. Either all stomped or we all got stomped. No hard fought victories. No teeth clenching defeats.all over in 25 minutes.

[saxistaja]

I remember that Faker mention that playing on solo queue is like a gacha machine, you have 50/50 either winning or losing, there is no actual skill matching on lol

[mogullll]

still insane that the "authentic" league experience that most people play is to play a team based 5v5 game where you cannot queue as a 5 man team

[DaisyLazyPanda]

as someone that plays since season 2, i'll say that it's so noticeable the changes in soloQ and matches in general, and most of them towards the negative side

back then you could also win games even if you had 1 or even 2 trollers, if you were good at the game, nowadays, all it takes is you having the "griefer" on the team, and suddendly enemy team will be at a huge advangate because of it, and nearly impossible to win, unless if the enemy is that bad

i could talk about so many topics but "for what" won't change anything, nor the disappoint i've been having to the game ever since season 8, only seems to get worse

[everything-has-a-handle-now]

I still don't understand why soloQ is considered the 'best' gamemode when flex is way the game is supposed to be played..

[DaddyFade]

When the 🐐 complains, changes will definitely be made

[codelinx]

He's definitely right. Now when people are ahead in this patch it's absurd after the durability update. When people are ahead how they are+2-5 levels in their laner and up 1-3 items. If you factor that into the top lane or mid where this happens more frequently it's absurd facing an Akali, zed, sett, Darius etc with that gap.

[tactrixh]

He's absolutely right, once you have a serious snowball of 5+ kills it's almost impossible to stop.

[michaelgray]

1000 percent agree. It's more griefing in league than I can remember ever before. It's usually top lanes. When top is fed or get a few kills or like every season th3 jungle gets fed. The game feels so bad. Because if your not a juggernaut champion there's nothing you can do. They can breathe on you and your dead. But take 20 seconds killing 1 item jak sho Zac that jumped in 5 ppl no help but jumps out

[pandaboyfriend]

Riot had a scare when Faker originally suggested boycotting soloqueue, and they kinda listened to him before iirc - they should REALLY listen to him this time. When the king speaks, everyone listens.

[daybighwang]

When I go even but enemy rengar is 24/2 3 items at 13 mins (Totally didnt happen an hour ago)

[zacharywyland]

As a low elo player, I feel like solo queue is at the worst state I’ve ever seen it. Granted I’ve only played for 2 years, but I play a LOT of games and never have I seen so consistently people purposely losing, not to mention the absolutely disgusting chat behavior. The ranked season JUST started and I have had %80 of my games decided by someone’s behavior

[kirinkappa]

HEALING adds to this. It takes 3 people to slowly kill Aatrox in a span of 15 seconds if fed Aatrox decides he wants to engage in a long fight risking his shutdown. Because of insane healing, some champs, when fed, require many people to kill + their own mistake, otherwise they just never die after early game.