Frontlines over coordination Issues

[Mawlzy]

What is it about the organization of a pre-made that can't be organized by a commander? Genuine question here. I suppose one could argue voice chat but, having 4-8 people in a discord call becomes more chaotic than organized in my experience.

If it's just one person calling the shots in a voice call... isn't that just the same as using markers and sound effects in-game?

I'd suggest part of it is simply practice. Some of these premades are effectively statics. They play together a lot, develop a common cadence, understand the strategy they will employ, and stack in a specific way. I guess it's possible you occasionally queue in and find 3 players you know well on your team, and you switch jobs to create a pseudo-premade, but if that happens more than 1 match in a 100 I'd be surprised.

As to voice, again it's familiarity with using it in a static. And anything that frees up your fingers is powerful IMO. Moreover, on Aether we're now seeing "silent premades" who coordinate burst via voice and don't even bother to involve their "team-mates" at all. No shotcalls, just the four of them moving in harmony.

The efficacy is also revealed by commanders following the Olivia model who play as DRK shotcaller in a premade. If commanding solo was as effective, I'd imagine more of these commanders would do it. Instead they tell us they are the only competent players on the field. Thus they have to play as a premade because they can't trust the "idiots."

The response immediately before this one is a classic illustration of that precise point. Really nice "community," huh?