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Pros and Cons: Autofill

Avios1··2 votes·349 views

Welcome, Boys, Grills, and Apache Helicopters to the new analytic show, "Pros and Cons!" Today, we will look at the pros and cons of one of the boards most debated subjects: Autofill.

At first glance, many deem it necessary to fill the void, but that's what people like Kha'Zix and Vel'Koz are for silly! Anyways, let's dive down deep into the pros of Autofill.

Pros

-Shortens que times -Introduces a player to a variety of roles -inaudible screeching noises

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Cons -Affects ranked, prevents Challenjours from reaching their true rank. -People autofilled can't play said role well (Looking at you, autofilled ADC [<>.<>]) -games in high rank (Diamond+, generally) are determined (Mostly) by how many autofills are on each team -Ho1 M8, I'm xXxF3kr-

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This is an actual balance thread, however I wanted to take a different approach. If you mods are looking for a serious point, Autofill might be good for lowering que time and introducing new roles, but sucks donkey in actual ranked due to higher ranks having less players. Autofill should just not be in ranked games, or, at the very least, not in diamond+

3 Comments

GrievousFetus2 votes

If people could reliably reach diamond, master and Challenger across multiple accounts before we even had role queue in the first place and you had a 20% equal chance of getting every role, people can climb getting their preferred role most of the time and playing an infrequent autofill game.

Honestly? I'd rather go back to the old system. At least it forced people to be able to play all 5 roles with some sort of minimal competency.

Starcraft243ver1 votes

You are using pros and cons of autofill like there's an alternative without these pros and cons, but the only alternative was the old way : pick order decides roles. You just can't get rid of autofill to put a "everybody get his chosen role".

What happens when you lack a role and there is not autofill :

1000 players starts to queue for a game, there are only 100 supports. 500 of the players find a match thanks to the 100 support. 500 players are still waiting.

1000 new players starts to queue they bring 100 new supports

you now have a total of 1500 players queuing (the 500 who were waiting + the 1000 new). the 500 who were waiting are priorized and get matched with the 100 new supports. 1000 players are still waiting

1000 new players starts ... ...

1500 waiting ... But now the 1500 waiting will have to wait until 3000 new players bring 300 new support to get matched. These 3000 new players will be waiting for 6000 new players to connect to bring 600 supports ....

Repeat until 10 000 players are waiting with 1h+ queue time.

Picking role before the game was a new feature, before that you had to respect pick order, everytime. So the system is better than before, and it NEEDS autofill, else it's not just the queue time will be longer, it's the queue time will GROW so much you wont even be able to play.

NotSpecialDude1 votes

I've said this before and I will say it again. Autofill is nessesary evil especially for upper elo. Up there where the wait times could be upward of an hour, cutting it down would really help.

Likewise the solution to autofill isn't the upfront removal of it, but to address the issue of supports and how lacking that role is. If we can incentivize more support players, autofill will sort itself out on its own

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