If you're going to leave autofill, at least Improve on it, here's how.

Viktor Von Lazer··3 votes·1,001 views

Personally I think autofill is unnecessary for lower elos because the wait time is already pretty short. This complaint has been voice pretty loudly and while it doesn't seem like Riot has listened to it there are ways to FIX autofill. Change it so can either, A: Order your preferred of roles, (Mid, top, supp, Jungle, Bot ) OR B: Exclude a role I lean towards A, mainly I'm suggesting a slight tweak. You Queue up for say (mid/top) and add an autofill section where you list the order of the preferences ( support, jungle, bot).
My reasons for saying this is, 1)Not everyone has the rune pages set up to handle every role you throw them into. 2)Even if someone may have high MMR when placed in an off role there is a good chance they'll play substantially worse. The game feels less about which team is overall better, and more like which team has the worse autofill mismatch. Jungler auto-filled into support, not the worst... support auto-filled to jungle, might be a lot worse. 3)It would make a much more fair and balanced game with less excuses/reasons to tilt. "Yes I got autofill but at least i don't have to play adc in 2017" 4) I understand Riot, Queue times are terribly long (5 mins instead of 3 mins), but players are unsatisfied with being placed into their worst or least preferred role. This strikes a balanced.

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Deep Terror Nami2 votes

For the "exclude a role", they tried that and the obvious happened; everybody opted out of Support and the queue times got really bad.

Viktor Von Lazer1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Deep Terror Nami,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=3Qefyi4Q,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-03-07T15:18:53.561+0000)

For the "exclude a role", they tried that and the obvious happened; everybody opted out of Support and the queue times got really bad.

Yes I thought as much even though I probably wasn't there during that time. The chance of you getting auto filled atm is reasonably low, but the probability you get placed in your least preferred role when auto filled isn't. I think that's the biggest issues. Say there's 5% chance on any given game (on average) of being auto-filled if for more than 2/3 you don't get your least preferred role it would be a pretty good step to prove game quality. If for 9/10 out of the 5% of games you get autofilled you didn't get the role you hated, i'm pretty sure the improvement in game quality is worth any small increase in queue time.

TheEdgeOfDestiny1 votes

[offtopic] I'm the guy from deleted carry Lux thread. Couldn't post there. Thanks. :)

oSEXYPLATYPUSo2 votes

how bout everyone is required to play a support game 1 in every 5 games.... so 20% of your games you have to play support. and if you dodge or log out etc you cant play another role til you play the one game as support and after that. your next 4 games you are 100% promised your two roles?

franchise76761 votes

[{quoted}](name=MrFawknSunshine ,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=3Qefyi4Q,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2017-03-07T15:28:16.301+0000)

how bout everyone is required to play a support game 1 in every 5 games.... so 20% of your games you have to play support. and if you dodge or log out etc you cant play another role til you play the one game as support and after that. your next 4 games you are 100% promised your two roles?

all that will do is make me feed so hard to the game quickly

oSEXYPLATYPUSo2 votes

good then you can be reported every 5 games and then be perma banned and you wont be an issue any more

franchise76761 votes

[{quoted}](name=MrFawknSunshine ,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=3Qefyi4Q,comment-id=000100000000,timestamp=2017-03-07T18:38:40.902+0000)

good then you can be reported every 5 games and then be perma banned and you wont be an issue any more

I have so many accounts that have been banned forever I have so many accounts period. i have so many IP addresses reports bans all forms of punishment they mean nothing to me.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

lol figures...

people like you is what is wrong with the community and the game

Hyperiön2 votes

The bad thing about B, is that everyone who doesn't want to play support will put support in the exclude spot. Q times would be crazy bad again.

what you deserve1 votes

See, my problem is that I'm a jungle main but the only other role I can really play is support, and then autofill puts me into mid or something. If I put support secondary then it means I have to play supp more than I want to.

Imperial Pandaa1 votes

{quoted}

See, my problem is that I'm a jungle main but the only other role I can really play is support, and then autofill puts me into mid or something. If I put support secondary then it means I have to play supp more than I want to.

Honestly, may not be the case. Granted it was for top, but I q'd for Top and Support and more often then not, I got top. It does this weird thing that is like, 'Oh, you are wiling to play support? Lets Autofill someone else.'

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