Quote Originally Posted by Mawlzy View Post
I have more fun playing against Olivia than with her. The central issue is fairness. I understand why someone would exploit mixed queueing. You're absolutely right that the object of the exercise is to win, so given the effectiveness of a voice-coordinated premade, people are going to run them. (Until they graduate college and real life intervenes.) But premades lead to dull games and cement the couldn't-care-less attitudes of far too many players in FL. Something I think everyone who cares about the mode would like to reduce.

Note also the presence of premades greatly complicates the balancing issues that SE is not always great at addressing. By mixing queues, they have to balance jobs for both solo players and 4-person, highly-coordinated statics. The endless complaints about DRK, for example, evaporate if they are not stacked in a premade.
While I understand the wish for a fair match, it's not a remotely likely prospect not only because of the highly-coordinated premades you mentioned, the queue needs to also get rid of the people who do the bare minimum for their roulette exp, because those people drag down teams with their 'don't care, tryhard' attitude.

The only way we could possibly get mostly fair matches is not to completely remove premades, but to introduce a hidden rating that we get matched on so everyone in the match is of roughly the same skill level. That way, premades or not, there's a lot less fodder running around and no easy BH5 for anyone.