Open queue best queue

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I have been commenting on alot of posts about open queue being a good option instead of role queue. These are some of the reasons, feel free to add more.

  • Low queue time
    -Less toxicity. Still there, but less
  • More tanks therefore
    • longer than 3 second teamfights
    • healing is more impactfull
    • feels like the better team wins as people wont get randomly oneshot
    • more protection for supports

-People tend to switch more often. Not only within the role, but people also switch to dps/tank/supp if necessary.

  • feels better to have 1 overall rank. Hate to play a minimum of 21 games to get a rank in every role. Rarely win 7 in a row either so more like 40 games. Open queue rank just better.
  • no issues with oneshot weird champs like sojurn, sombra, genji etc.
  • feels like the games are running smootly, probably the fact that dps and supps dont die in 2 seconds
  • while playing support and game is lost you can switch to dps and have fun during the time you lose. Knowing you will lose in role queue and not being able to switch sucks. Might be because of afk, dc, bad team, playing vs best teams etc.

Some of my thoughts, what are yours.

Edit: spelling. Probably more as I’m on the phone.

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My thoughts?

OQ is a dead gamemode for people who are either

  • Stuck in the past
    or
  • Refuse to learn how intended OW works

Tanks are inherently dominant so best comps in OQ are one dimensional and they’re just 3 tanks 2 supps. Heavy sustain comps = boring.

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OQ feels more like role lock nowadays / Role Lock feels like Quickplay

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Goats ftw all the time

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Yes, this is one flaw with OQ as they have balanced the game by only having 1 tank. I would like it if they could make balance changes for the two different modes but I have no idea how that would work. In a perfect world, there would be two different balance systems for each queue, but I guess they don’t want to put time and effort into an old system.
But why even have a competitive scene when they don’t intend to balance it? Wouldn’t it be better for them to make OQ a normal game mode and only have RQ as the only comp?

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I’ve been having fun in open queue. I think it’s important in open queue to focus fire a specific target so then the fight doesn’t go on for too long. It’s a great change of pace from role queue and it plays more like a moba.

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It is a bit dead.

But I play it most now because the games are just fun most of the time.