in this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7KmzUJYkks
In the video, there are major changes coming next season for match making. However, a small change they will do soon is make it so each team has an even amount of auto fil'd players. So 2 players are auto fil'd on red? Blue will have 2 as well.
Thoughts?
He said that they will reduce the chances of one team having multiple autofills and other not having so; only when the update comes regarding this we can be sure of it. Hopefully they do it for number of autofills as well as the role, because an autofilled supp may not lose the game, but an autofilled jungle may lose the game because of the difference in impacts of the roles.
Should have been implemented when autofill was first introduced. You can't expect people who are playing a role they weren't expecting, and probably aren't even good at, to perform at the level their rank suggests. They tried to solve this with positional matchmaking, but that totally backfired as people threw games outside their main role because it didn't really affect the rank they cared about.
I'm curious how they plan to solve people swapping in champ select. Say you have one autofilled player on each team who absolutely can't play the roles they were given. One team has someone who is adept at that role and willing to swap. The other team doesn't. Now, one team has a bit of an advantage over the other in the sense of players uncomfortable in their role.
They should really have it set up so that the players rank each role from most to least wanted, and the matchmaker keeps a separate tally of what you usually play, and it balances these values between the two teams (e.g., you'd never get somebody who get autofilled to jungle but normally mains jungle against an autofilled enemy who never plays jungle).
Autofill should be removed entirely up to mid Diamond where there really is a lack of people. Otherwise the idea is good but people will still be able to swap. Also autofill should be for support only. Often I win my autofill support game or swap. However many times I get sent jg or adc. You are telling me there were no people who wanted adc.
