Get rid of autofill

Brownie Elfie·11/24/2016, 10:21:01 PM·8 votes·1,217 views

The main purpose of autofill was to give people lower queue times at the expense of not getting their primary or their secondary. Now, I personally think this was not a good idea as it forces some people to learn more roles than they really should. Learning how to play 2 roles I am fine with, but performing your best at 3 or 4 roles I simply cannot do. For example, I'm a jungle main who takes top (primarily) as my secondary. When I go adc or support, I'm foreign to the fact that I must lane with 2 other people and at a disadvantage already since I am not well equipped with the knowledge to adc or support, leading to some advantages that the enemy can make use of unfairly, and since bot lane can snowball so hard, it normally ends in a loss. I'm willing to go through a longer queue time to not lose a game. Please consider my argument and at least think about removing autofill. Thanks :D

36 Comments

jmp23111/24/2016, 10:36:55 PM3 votes

This happened with me last night. I main adc and mid and I got auto filled to support..... I was somewhat clueless as to what I should be doing as a support. Was a very miserable game for me. And no one wanted to trade with me ;-;

LostFr0st11/24/2016, 10:24:50 PM1 votes

Before role preference you needed to know and prepare for all 5 roles. Either ask your team to switch or adapt, because autofill isn't leaving at least until they fix the lack of supports in the queue.

Adaren2111/25/2016, 7:52:13 AM1 votes

Okay what no one seems to addressed is the fact that when the new matchmaking system was made. The longer queue times had already been dressed because i was a known trade off that selecting roles would increase the queue times. And guess what? People were FINE with it. It was a worthwhile trade off. So why do we even need this? I've talked to many people. Seen even more talk about it and I've really not seen anyone that thought it was needed cause just about everybody would rather wait a bit longer to get into what is much more likely to be a good game. I know if a perfect world everyone should be able to do all the roles but guess what that's never going to happen. So now there's even more reason for people to troll if they get auto filled into a position they hate or know they are bad at. There really is no actual upside to it. Cause i'd rather be in a 10 or even 20 minute queue then be rolling the dice on wasting a game.

Brownie Elfie11/25/2016, 8:17:25 AM1 votes

It seems the people who have agreed with me have posted comments of their own explaining their side of this problem while people who downvoted me just stopped by for the sake of a downvote....