The Real Reason Autofills Sometimes Troll

Ifneth·2/19/2019, 1:14:20 AM·2 votes·1,120 views

They just don’t want to play that role. Whether Riot makes it easier through positional matchmaking or forces them to play for a single rank, some people are just selfish jerks who throw a fit when they don’t get what they want. As long as Autofill remains necessary to keep queue times reasonable, such behavior will be part of the game. The best solution is to keep making the less-played roles more fun—and less frustrating—to reduce the position-choice disparities necessitating autofill.

4 Comments

Spiffy McBang2/19/2019, 2:09:05 AM1 votes

"More fun" is different for everyone. Changing the nature of less popular positions to make them more fun will do little to impact players who troll, because the more fun thing still isn't what they want.

Riot has to choose between longer queue times for some positions and the problems that come with autofill. They've chosen the latter. There's very little to it beyond that.

deadlychuck2/19/2019, 4:53:13 AM1 votes

They could also fix queue times by increasing their player count... but let's be honest we don't have those numbers so surely the game has continued to grow over the years >.>

And yeah, some people are self jerks because they didn't get the thing that they wanted in a match they queued for, but try not getting what you want out of the game for 5 years running. Granted that doesn't just apply to fill, that's just why there's so many people who troll now.

YoYo Slug2/19/2019, 5:30:35 AM1 votes

there would be significantly less trolls if this trash ranked system was removed