The root cause of this is the high number of 3 person parties that want to play together, with not enough 1s and 2s to fill them out as these solo/duo players can just opt to play a different game mode.
The ironic thing here is that the total population in Ranked Flex remains healthy, but the premade distribution and make-up of that population has shifted to a point where it’s difficult to make matches at a quality bar we’d like. On the flip side, we’ve started to see a significant decline in the health of Ranked Flex queue where queue times (~7 min on average for 3 person parties) and match quality (2-4 division discrepancies between teams) have diverged significantly. It causes games with duos of imbalanced MMR to impact our autofill/secondary role rates (sometimes double the chances), queue times (~10 second increase for players per game on average), and most importantly-game quality metrics (upwards of a 10% win-rate spread in both directions). That said, we do see issues with Solo/Duo Queue that consistently point to our accommodation of premade duos–this directly adds quality and population volatility into the matchmaking mix. Lastly, MMR accuracy is strong, where 99% of players are playing with those within a maximum of 2 divisions of their rank with a steady win-prediction accuracy to back it up. Queue times are at a 2 year low in many large regions and hovering firm in our small regions.
Solo/Duo queue statusįrom a high level viewpoint, Solo/Duo queue is currently in one of the healthiest states we’ve ever seen.Īutofill is at its lowest ever global rate hovering between 0.5% and 3% of player games. The following info has been shared when discussing the state of competitive in spring 2022 by Cody “ Riot Codebear” Germain, Product Lead for Competitive Gameplay and Behavioral Systems on League of Legends.
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