Does teamwork exist in solo queue?

Solo q is like killer. It's 1v4.

Okay I am joking but sometimes it can feel like that. Other times you get some really nice teammates.

I've had games where I and my fellow survivors just gelled like SWF (maybe they were SWF and I was the only solo or all were solo). If I were killer, I'd assume we were SWF (like the time myself and another survivor sabo'ed two hooks around the killer, forcing them to dump the downed man; you'd never convince me if I were the killer that that happened by pure chance :D)

Unfortunately that isn't something that happens often as you need other solos who REALLY know what they're doing and are also willing to do things for the team, even if it's to their detriment. It's just not something you run into very often as a solo player.

It exists, you just need to realize that your needs aren’t going to be the highest priority. If I’m more than halfway done with a gen and your downed but not in the near proximity and another person is being chased, do I stop what I’m doing or hope that the fourth person is already en route to you? It’s a judgement call that can be hard to make. There is no real communication in solo queue unless you’re using something like bond. I can’t tell you how much time is wasted running to somebody’s aid only to have another player get there first. In the meantime that is one less gen that is repaired.

But generally speaking in the situation you describe I wouldn’t go for the downed person, I’d go for the hook save. If I see the person being carried to the hook I figure I won’t be able to get the downed person up in time before the killer returns and all that will do is put the killer on my radar and then we have potentially one on hook and two downed. It’s a domino of saves with zero gens getting repaired. It’s better imo to let the second person get hooked and unhook and escape and heal the first person.

Well, yeah. It is chaotic at times but it exists.

This is why most of the games that killers/streamers start end up with 4K, because they are against people who are either inexperienced, playing solo, and/or lacking communication. And this is why most killers/streamers literally get destroyed by SWFs/random skilled survivors, and don't stop complaining about it, because it's so easy to be strong against weak people. Teamwork works if you are up against three other good survivors who know exactly what to do in DbD, otherwise welcome to hell.

Yes, not a lot but some players do. A lot of players won't take protection hits and a few still unsafe unhook.

I ll leave the last gen when its at 65% to get a headstart on the exit gate is one example, or if im near an exit gate with 1 gen left I ll stand right in front of it to get it opened fast.

In theory Kindred would solve some of these issues for solo queues. But in practice it doesn't work.

1) If you have kindred and are hooked and it shows the killer is camping you, you will still get 3 of the survivors trying to unhook you so that they farm you for points.

2) No one comes to your rescue until after you reach 2nd hook stage, and then they come in for an unsafe hook and they don't try to body block which leads you to die again.

Mechanically, no. There's not a huge difference between solo and SWF until you get to really high levels of play. The big difference is in game sense/decision making. A lot of players have no idea where they should be or when to be there IMO. It's a very often overlooked part of survivor play. Solos can have those skills, but they usually don't either due to lack of information or just not knowing optimal positioning in the first place. SWF makes it a whole lot easier because those things can be communicated.