At casual the matches with bots should simply be filled up with people in the queue.

@ZeNoVaSioN-0 said in Buck Balance Suggestion:

If anyone has any other suggestions regarding Buck feel free since I do not believe Buck is fine as he is as Evil Mojo has stated.

Well Buck is the least popular flank and one of the least popular champions. So he is hardly "fine", but Evil Mojo wants Buck and Ruckus to be weak and be played as little as possible.

Operation "Diamond Frame" successfully completed thanks to new insights in advanced game mechanics.

By the way, there is seemingly a possibility to rank up even easier than with a team of two. Since my partner was stuck in Platin I while I ranked up from Platin III to Diamond, I locked in my brand new Smurf account, which is Gold III. We made 5 matches and won all 5 easily.
It seems if there is a group with one Diamond and one Bronze the matchmaker would take the average and put them against gold players. So if there are 2 players who want to rank up together, they can both make a smurf with low rank. If they always play with 1 smurf and one main account they can rank up while avoiding the strong players on Diamond and higher.

@Conrad_Max said in Option to disable skins?:

What? People have mentioned and even complimented me on my skin(s). Some have said that they remembered me using the skin(s) before. Clearly they can see the skin(s) that I use.

Some of them. But you cannot know if some use a secret mod to see only standard skins.

@TangAce said in Option to disable skins?:

anyway if you disable the skin, what happens to the voicepack? don't you think it's very handy to hear voicepack instead of basic announcer? or that skins voicepack are way better than default ones?

Then do not disable it. It would be your decision after all. If you like skins and voicepacks keep them on and if not turn them off.

@Spookseus said in Option to disable skins?:

There are people (myself included) that do not like the vast majority of skins.

Even worse, the skins are so weird meanwhile that it's sometimes hard to tell which champion it is. The blonde chick with playboy bunny dress doesn't look like Seris. Tyra has a dress with wings that makes her look like Furia.

@Conrad_Max said in Option to disable skins?:

Personally, and I may be the only person who believes this, I think this is a bad idea. And thbe reason is quite simple. People work hard, play hard snd maybe even spend money to have skins that represent their personalities or how they feel at the moment.

But they have no way to tell how the others see them, so nothing would change for them.

@xHeinekenZ said in Ranked Points:

so kommt man ja dann nie aus einer Stufe heraus....da bleibt man ja immer stecken?! Echt komische Regelung.

Doch. Du musst deine ELO steigern indem du viel gewinnst. Dann kriegst du 15 Punkte pro win und überspringst Ränge. Wobei ich zugebe, auch ich finde die Regelung bescheuert. Einmal in der Niederlagenserie kommt man ganz schwer wieder hoch, weil das auch die Motivation drückt, wenn man 6 Punkte kriegt für den hart erkämpften Sieg und dann 15 verliert weil ein bot im Team ist.

Jayflare says in his last video that Hirez believes Ruckus and Buck are not good characters to have in the meta and in every game. Because if they are in the meta it absolutely sucks to play against them.

The only time when Buck was in the meta it absolutely sucked to play against him cause of his massive damage reduction and self-heal he was almost unkillable. I remember that, but I'd say every flank that is meta sucks to play against. Punching Andro, Maeve when she killed tanks through their shield and so on.

Same goes for Ruckus. Old "Diaruckus" was horrible to play against - says Jayflare. Wtf is "Diaruckus"? I can't remember any time when it sucked to play against Ruckus. Ruckus always sucked to have in team.

Is this a pro-player thing? Why are Ruckus and Buck not good characters to have in the meta and in every game?

@xHeinekenZ said in Ranked Points:

Diesen Dreck muss man nicht verstehen?! Oder kann mir das mal jemand erklären?

Kann ich. Die Anzahl Punkte, die man bekommt, richtet sich nach der eigenen (versteckten) ELO. Ist die höher als der Rang kriegt man viele Punkte. Einfach gesagt, der Matchmaker hat aufgrund der ELO eine Ansicht auf welchen Rang Du gehörst laut deiner Spielstärke - und da versucht er dich hinzuschieben.

Der Matchverlauf selber hat keinerlei Einfluss auf die Punkte. Ob man AFK in der Ecke steht oder 100 kills macht, egal, was zählt ist nur der Sieg.

@TangAce said in Are groups prioritized in matchmaking?:

@M3RC3N4RI0
while group of more than 2 players do face better opponents, duo is totally fine
I decided to only play duo now

4-5 stack group is just how to lose easily if the whole group is of gold lvl or below, or how to easily win if the whole group is like plat-diamond lvl stuck below
anyway it should be balanced by putting groups against groups not against full solo

Till now it seems you are right with everything. After being low Platin for 200 matches maybe it took me around 25 matches in a 2 player group to reach Platin I. I jumped from Plat III directly to Plat I. The winrate solo is 53% and 2-man-team 65% or so.

Funny thing, I randomly played 2 times with another group of 2 from my friendslist and we clearly won together. Then we put together both groups and played 3 matches as a group of 4 - and got massacred all 3 times.

Like you said it seems to make no difference how strong the partner is. I played 3 with a guy who is really weak, picks nonsense like a Seris with a Ying, doing measly heal and damage - and still we win.

It's just a first impression of course.

@TangAce said in TP - RANKED:

@Borvik
nah I know it's drophack, although the fact that a game can cancel and be counted as a lose is rly weird, only happened once, but I was with a friend and we got kicked at the same time back to the game lobby, then 10sec later we had a lose in history, but the game was only at 2-2

If everyone of one team is kicked the team loses (I assume). On the other hand, now that I think about it I played once with 9 bots (as far as I remember). But maybe there was one bad player among them.