Storm league only solo or duo play needed

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3~5 party in storm league makes game disaster
in asia server.
Someone who wanted to make his tier higher
gather people with sub ID with lower tier than his original ID (example, original ID tier is diamond but sub ID tier is silver or gold) and make party of 3-5 people.
That party never defeat before meets another trash party doing like that.
And not problem ends here.
Users who make their tier up like this way, make game unbalanced when he play storm league solo. Because their ability is lower than their tier.
That makes another user left this game forever.
We need to return hero league and team league system.

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This problem is likely not as bad as you may think.

The highest MMR is used for matching, so in your example the silver or gold players will be dragged to a diamond match. Unless the silver or gold players are high rank smurfs, they will either deserve to be diamond by winning, or they will lose if they are not skilled enough.

Of course this assumes the match maker is working correctly. It might not be able to find a suitable diamond tier match for the party, in which case a lower, or higher tier might be selected. In this case if the match is a lower tier then the diamond player will gain very little MMR from a win, and lose a ton of MMR from any loss, so it cannot be used to cheese into a higher rank than they should be.

The main issue with teams is not the skill spread, but rather team play. They can end up drafting a team comp that they are highly practiced with and so be able to compete at tiers significantly higher than they can solo. This should not be a problem as long as they keep playing as a team since the whole team should gravitate towards the same high MMR based on their team skill, but is an issue if they decide to not play as a team as suddenly they are left in a high rank that they cannot play well at due to not having the team play advantage anymore.

Team league was removed due to low player population. It was impossible to get a fair match, or even any match, for a lot of teams.

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