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Autofill

Ojamaparty·10/7/2019, 4:10:48 PM·4 votes·4,681 views

I have tried talking to two different people from player support regarding this topic, but they don't seem to understand what I am trying to say and just keep telling me to submit a discussion on the boards - so here I am.

I am currently a Diamond IV one-trick Miss Fortune and as I have been climbing through the different elos, I have noticed that getting off-roled has gradually gotten harder and harder - to the point where now I simply can't play off-role otherwise I am literally just inting my teammates and nearly guaranteeing a loss for us. My suggestion to Riot for a possible "fix" to Autofill (for us players who truly hate it and would rather wait a decade than to play a poor quality game off-roled) is to make an "opt-in" clause during role selection. A player could simply check a box stating that he/she wants to be Autofill protected and if so, then a pop-up would appear saying something like "I understand that selecting the 'Autofill protected' option could greatly increase queue times and wish to proceed" before the player would be able to start the queue. Of course, the player would be able to cancel the queue and uncheck the "Autofill protected" box if he/she no longer wishes to wait for longer periods of time in order to guarantee their role.

In response to this suggestion, I was given replies such as:

  1. "But this will lengthen queue times and not everyone wants to wait" | I really don't understand why this was even said to me in the first place - those players who don't mind being Autofilled don't have to check the aforementioned box, I'm not sure why this would even be a factor in the discussion.
  2. "But this will cause unbalanced matchmaking" | Really now? More unbalanced than, for example, a MF one-trick getting Autofilled top lane into a Riven main at Diamond elo? If so, I would love for a Rioter to tell me how adding an option for players who don't mind waiting would cause matchmaking to suddenly be unbalanced.
  3. "But then you won't be flexible and be able to play other roles" | I don't at all care about "being flexible" and being able to play other roles, furthermore, I have absolutely no interest in playing other roles, period. I enjoy playing League of Legends as a MF one-trick and that's pretty much it. I don't want to top, or mid, or jungle, or support. I want to bot and I want to play the champion I want to play - why should I be punished for that?
  4. "But what if most players are queuing for adc?" | Again, seriously? You're telling me that so many people are queuing for a specific role that I will be waiting hours for a game if I choose to be Autofill protected? I don't at all believe that. And if it is true, then I would love for a Rioter to show me the statistics on it.

I think I have pretty much covered everything. TL;DR - This is my thought process and possible solution for Autofill for players who truly hate it. If anyone can point out actual flaws in my proposition, I would love to hear them since I can't seem to think of a single scenario where this is a worse solution than our current system.

25 Comments

Saezio10/7/2019, 4:21:15 PM2 votes

Only way this would work is if you are ok waiting for all 10 players in your game to have the box ticked.

It's not fair you not having to ever fill but you take advantage of other people filling. So, sure, in theory you could wait for 10 people that are 2 of each role that all have "i don't want to be autofilled" enabled. But this would end up with queue times of over 2-3 hours imo. (especially since you would need 2 supports that both are willing to wait even though they are pretty much guaranteed their role anyway in normal Q)

Hentai Džinks10/8/2019, 12:28:08 AM2 votes

Autofill is rigged beyond a reasonable doubt. I preferred top/mid and got mid. The guy who got top preferred mid/top. The system takes two players with the same roles eg. Mid/ADC and ADC/Mid and intentionally, I repeat, INTENTIONALLY puts then in a less preferable role. [sg-miss-fortune] This game is getting shittier with every single touch Rioters make, it's sad to think this game had the potential for dozen more seasons... 10 years anniversary huh Riot? WRONG! That 10 is your tombstone...

Summoner SpeII10/8/2019, 12:42:48 AM1 votes

every single player would abuse this feature, and there would be absurd queue times. Unless u have some way of making it fair but not abusable

VanCanBanMan10/8/2019, 12:43:32 AM1 votes

Autofill is wack because sometimes i'm trying to duo with a friend and I get autofilled into his preferred role

Raype2Save1/11/2020, 9:28:22 AM1 votes

  1. If this matters or not is another subject, but yes- everyone's queues would be longer. Not only the autofill protected ones.

  2. That Diamond elo otp Riven will also get autofilled bot sometimes. Whereas if you dont ever get autofilled, you're gaining a clear advantage over people who are.

  3. Champion selects and queues are pretty straight forward. You should be able to play at least one more role, you can call that a fair award for people who do/ a fair punishment for those who dont. And the punishment is relative because you even have the possibilituy to dodge for almost no lp loss.

  4. It's only logical that if that happened more people would only play a specific role, yes.