New Shatter map... something Feels off.

[Aravell]

Premades will still get BH5 rapidly even against semi-competent opposition IMO. It's a consequence of the powerful synergy of coordinated LBs as the skillset currently stands. When Olivia is doing her book club thing, for example, I saw all 4 of them get BH5 in 3 minutes. As I mentioned before, you can't simultaneously balance FL for solo players and light parties running certain comps, the synergies are too powerful.

While I absolutely agree that premades will still get BH5 rapidly due to surprise attacks or pinches, I disagree that an alliance of equal skill is unable to deal with it. I've played, as a solo player, in a match against the dreaded DRK+RPR+DRG+DRG premade, not only did my team have no commander, we also stomped that premade so they can't even maintain their BH5.

You definitely do not need a premade to beat another premade, you just need a motivated enough team that has the skills for it. The hidden rating suggestion would help get a skilled team. Most of the wins I've gotten against an obvious premade were also silent in alliance chat with only maybe 3 calls of a direction to go towards throughout the whole match.

I also disagree that having people who don't try isn't destructive to the team. The less people you have attacking, the less chance you have of killing anyone, which heavily hurts your team's BH generation in the long run. I firmly believe that people who don't try are more destructive to your chances of winning than going against a premade.