appears to be order arrived in lobby. the higher your latency, the lower on the list.
i hate it as well. nothing like seeing our first pick go to a rank 16 player choosing oscar mike or our team banning kleese and pendles
TL:DR. I want these nachos.
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Oh! I forgot too, when everyone is random/solo, the meta doesnt matter. you dont know who is what. and people can have their mains banned or picked by others.
Which can only be effectively done by groups! 
Everyoneās solo so this is null so far.
Iām enjoying the challenge, and communicate my thoughts about the enemy picks and our picks - how they stack up. I never tell people who to pick or ban, but i will comment like when i picked kelvin last night - 'im going to be in whatever lane that toby isnāt" (i ended up being the swing because our marquis was beast and their team wasnāt pressuring me properly- more on that below!)
So far, character synergy hasnāt been a thing for me. Only cc synergy - if i see a successful pull or stun, or am about to get one, i call it out. My team either capitalizes on it or they donāt. ez.
As in my earlier post, I think QM is for this, not solo queue as it exists now. I wonāt reiterate since that earlier post says it all. 
I guess if we had billions of people we could have a solo draft q and a solo nodraft q. then same with group qsā¦and then a ranked q. mmmm
Now, back to the matches I had!
First game the enemy drafted without a healer or a tank (marquis, beatrix, phoebe, pendles, wf). That was a big deal. we won 100 - 0 and went 30-2 as a team (ghalt, om, isic, alani, deande). Not only that but my team had good human team comp. We were in sync without really trying.
2nd, leaver and surrender by enemy.
Third game we lost, we got waaaay outplayed - enemy had blaine as dragon and a kelvin - those two alone kept cycling diving and that kept us from waveclearing as we tried to kill them, failed as they escape skilled back to their healer (although our shayne went in for stealth assassination successfully once!). my team surrendered, going 1-23, lol
Next match we got outplayed by a double support team - alani, cal, reyna, boldur, pendles. boldur frequently dived and died nearly as many times as pendles, but it wasted so much of our time (and life) again that weād be too weak to counter after killing those two. Cal was picking everyone off after that.Match timed out at 50-100. Real good match. We had some good pushes. Our poor marquis was trying to run three legendaries and decided that heād get some cheaper gear next time (he got none of them up, lol) our team was thorn, mike, marquis, miko, shayne. i feel i did good as tank shayne and miko kept me alive a lot of the time (i had most dmg taken and least deaths <3). we wouldve collapsed a lot sooner without that. Our miko did break at the end. He got a bit ragey at boldur ignoring mikos cc. lol our thorn and marquis seemed to be inexperienced.
Fourth, lost 0-100 both teams had a leaver, not sure when for either team, but it was a solid stomping on our end - our poor boldur mustāve been new, he did 5000 dmg to the rest of the teams 16000 and died the most. Got outplayed by the enemy team too - they stuck together and really capitalized on the center heal station in echelon. our reyna was carrying (no one made it past 3 on our team so we essentially had no healer).
last match last night we should have lost in the draft. Meltdown. dragon 4, marquis 6, mellka 5, deande 7, kelvin 4. versus: orendi 7, ernest 5, toby 6, caldarius 4, attikus 2.
I was kelvin. this is that match i thought i was going to have to avoid toby, since he can poke kelvin so well.
300-162
We killed them 2to1 and i bought 7 big bots to their 3. it helped.
the team listened to callouts, and our marquis was frequently holding his own in lane versus toby and orendi, with the others swinging in on occassion - heād ping and id call it out or go join him.
Cal and atti would frequently chase me at low health - i would sub backwards past them. Mell killed one of them that way, and i killed attikus with my sublimate at one point (to tell you how low he was chasing me). 39 stuns that match.
Loved it, Iāll be staying in solo q for a while
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Very informative and detailed post, my friend, Iāll have to hop in and give it a try!
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I played several games of Solo last night, the draft wasnāt bad. Just pointless. No one was seriously picking and I donāt recall a single instance of the ban choice being made by more than 2 people. Itās just time consuming.
Games were some of most balanced Iāve had in a while in terms of regulars and casuals being joined up. Ran into a number of names I recognized. It was nice being able to run into some of these people and not have to try and remember who theyāre probably crewed up with.
Bonus, I even got to play the majority of games in Incursion.
Sadly, didnāt have a single game where at least 1 person on one of the teams didnāt quit. Not always while the team was losing. Thus proving,at least to me, pre-mades and meta comps are not the sole evils that induce rage quitting in the BattleBorn populace.
People are just made of salt.
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Just got DESTROYED my very first time out.
Echelon.
Donāt know if somebody on the other team recognized me and knew how terrifying my Echelon ERNEST is, but yeah, Ernest was the very first ban.
Definitely not used to losing like that anymore!
They had a 136er who went 15-0 with DEANDEā¦
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Not gonna lie, I have become completely unaccustomed to losing like that!
Yoda voice
Pampered, Iāve become!
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oh, by the by! pendles was the most banned character in my matches. the games he wasnt banned are the ones players picked him in.
mellka was banned once (my team was adamant about it, lol) beatrix was popular for at least one person to try to ban. the rest were banned only once that i can recall. so pretty even.
Youāve become fat and spoiled, not unlike Ernest. Time to toughen up chicken little mainer, solo queue will force you to be better.
Now sit down and give me 3 games using defensive egg and 3 games using offensive egg! Variety!
Deande is the queen of singling out people and harassing them. I donāt know if itās a good thing or a bad thing her main attack doesnāt do a whole lot of damage. Usually when she starts swinging behind me it takes me a few seconds to realize Iām being singled out, not just taking stray shots.
At that point, a good Deande starts body blocking my escape and doing her crazy ninjitsu fan dance. While with a bad Deande, whose usually well overreached lets me say . . .
āHey guys look itās Deande, we get to kill Deande!ā
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I was so confused when those two were picked in a single game last night for banning. So confused. I wanted to jump on mic and ask, are we playing the same Pendles and Mellkaās?
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I always try to ban Miko, Kelvin, or Boldur in that order, unless i recognize somebody on the other team. Then i try to target ban. Especially against that premade that keeps backing out and re-entering to group together lol
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sighā¦ so from the āpeople are stomping us with premades!ā we go to āoh those try hards used orendi in solo que!ā
honestly, with this and the whole āBB has too much CCā crowd, it feels like most people would be better off playing something like the sims. This game has nowhere near the CC of most games, nowhere near the amount of premades (not to mention most premades are just a couple of average players grouping up with someone they once had a fun game with who happened to have a mic).
To now be at the level of complaining because there is a slightly competitive mode on a que where no scary premades can get you and calling people out because they chose certain characters? If you want to practice or experiment there are already several modes available for that.
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Solo queue is hard you guysā¦
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Why deliberately be so negative?
We know there are other games out there a lot more hardcore than Battleborn.
Sorry weāre not all Uber skilled MOBA players.
We CHOOSE to play Battleborn and as such are commenting on the aspects of BATTLEBORN that we find challenging.
I suggest a lower sodium diet for you.
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I love the draft mode, the only thing i donāt like about itās inclusion solo que is that many players seem to dislike it and itās making the queās wait time long, thats about it.
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because players get soft and then want games changed to match their levels of softness. take this que for example. itās solo que with no prize or rank or anything at stake, no premades, the same matchmaking (supposedly even better matchmaking due to draft using elo) and yet people immediately are shying away from it because it has the slightest hint of competitiveness because it has draft attached to it.
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No, we are embracing it and reporting on whatever we find challenging!
Guys, I just got a win!! WOOT!
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Also, guys, a tip: a lone micāer (in my games so far, me) with good situational awareness and who knows what needs to be done at any given time on any given map and who can call out when to push, fall back, defend, grab thralls, call out / coordinate CCs, let people know when a player is low and should be focused, etc, can REALLY help bring an un grouped up solo team to victory, or at least not as crushing a defeat,
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Dude you read my mind.
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