Riot Video games has simply now posted an replace on the state of aggressive play in League of Legends – and is contemplating eradicating Duo Queue from the sport.
For the time being, Duo Queue permits two gamers to play ranked collectively, as long as they’re close to to 1 one other’s rank. For instance, Gold elo gamers can queue up with Silver and Platinum-ranked gamers. To compensate, it appears queueing up as a pair will match you towards barely harder opposition than should you queue up alone.
Nonetheless, Riot factors out that Flex Queue – a ranked mode that enables one to 5 gamers to queue up collectively – has been struggling with longer wait occasions (seven minutes on common for three-person events) and two-to-four division discrepancies between groups, on account of a scarcity of solo and duo gamers queueing up for it.
On prime of this, duo queue generally is a common approach for higher-ranked gamers to spice up lower-level associates.
To fight this, Riot is proposing a Solo Solely Mode.
Riot mentioned on this publish on its web site, titled ‘the state of aggressive Spring 2022’: “We’re investigating a Solo Solely Mode. With the intention to match participant intent and supply the healthiest aggressive particular person queue potential, we’re re-evaluating our tackle Solo/Duo and exploring a world the place solo gamers play in solo queue and premades play in Ranked Flex or Organised 5s modes.
“We’re investigating a Solo Solely Mode. With the intention to match participant intent and supply the healthiest aggressive particular person queue potential, we’re re-evaluating our tackle Solo/Duo and exploring a world the place solo gamers play in solo queue and premades play in Ranked Flex or Organised 5s modes.”
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“We completely wish to be assured that our duo inhabitants, which is pretty important in dimension, can nonetheless discover a aggressive atmosphere earlier than making any giant modifications to the present methods. This implies re-investing in Ranked Flex queue integrity with our anti-cheat staff and discovering a pure approach for Solo play to attach with Ranked Flex/Conflict.
“We’re approaching this subject severely and with care, and can present an replace additional on within the yr on if it’s an space we will realistically transfer ahead with.”
Riot added {that a} Solo Solely Queue might lead to a lower in autofill and secondary position charges. Autofill is at its lowest ever world fee hovering between 0.5% and 3% of participant video games, Riot mentioned.
The developer additionally believes a Solo Solely Mode would cut back queue occasions ‘by as much as ~5% for 99.9% of gamers, winrate benefits on account of staff disparities would vanish utterly, boosting could be eradicated and we might anticipate between-team and within-team MMR for 99% of gamers to be inside one division’s rank of one another throughout peak hours’.
It added that Ranked Flex would see an increase in queue inhabitants, higher match high quality and a drop in queue occasions for events of three
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Dom is an award-winning author who graduated from Bournemouth College with a 2:1 diploma in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller within the late ’80s, he has written for a variety of publications together with GamesTM, Nintendo Official Journal, business publication MCV in addition to Riot Video games and others. He labored as head of content material for the British Esports Affiliation up till February 2021, when he stepped again to work full-time on Esports Information UK and as an esports guide serving to manufacturers and companies higher perceive the business.