User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/Mindset Theory: Solo vs Duo Que/@comment-5194571-20130408173803

I am going to have to disagree with that one. For all you know, the people playing Duo queue may have been countered in lane, or generally played champions that don't farm all that much (Kassadin mid + Leona jungle, for example). That can quite easily skew the results, because it doesn't take the rest of the team, or enemy team into account. Someone could have prefect cs'd and came out with 90, because only 90 were available to them for X reason. (In this case, I mean "get 100% of the cs they could".)

Some of my best performing games have been in duo queue. I once had a game on jungle Maokai where the enemy team caught me 4v1. They took around 45 secs to kill me, I killed 2 of them in the process. Meanwhile, my duo partner, fist timing Swain died, respawned and almost made it back to me during those 45 secs. There's plenty of examples from me, and I think your theory only applies to certain kinds of people.

I play worse alone, because I feel I do have the carry the team, and that pressure makes me go for things I otherwise wouldn't just to chance getting an advantage. The opposite applies in duo. I also make less plays in solo than duo. If I'm playing solo and see an oppurtunity, I will go in. Most of the time, my team won't go in with me and just watch me die. In duo with a friend, I can be sure for a fact that if I go in, they will follow up and good things will happen, more often than not.