Why not just add a 50/50 chance of each role in queue?

Shroom Junkie··5 votes·663 views

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I mean everyone - including myself - complains about not being able to play support without always getting support. Why is that? Because, nobody plays support. Now firstly its just the most unpopular role, but then there's the part that literally nobody wants to only play support so that decreases the popularity even more and makes queue times so much longer. Not even just 20% longer like each other role, just... longer. Its honestly probably the main reason as of right now. Obviously if it was fixed another role would be the problem for queue times but it seems like every other role can be found before support as of right now, so it should be significantly shortened.

So why not just add a 50/50 chance of each role instead of whichever the first team found needs? I mean it could just be totally random. Flip a virtual coin, spin an imaginary wheel, and the fill role could do the same.

So there's the problem of a role + fill, so just add a 50/50 coin flip of that role or fill, and then if you get fill then the imaginary wheel.

I don't know, maybe this would increase queue times because now we aren't just getting the first team to need one of our two roles, but isn't that what the PBE is for? Testing it out and seeing if it would actually work or not? I just find it incredibly stupid that I can't fill or pick secondary support or fill without every time getting support. I mean sure, if this change happened it would be your two roles instead of primary and secondary, and 'Random/?' instead of 'Fill' but honestly its not even fill, its just a bigger button for support. It was since Dynamic Queue came out and its only gotten worse because people stopped even trying.

I personally think it would make it a lot easier to play support and lower queue times, because there would be so many more people to take secondary support than now and that whole problem would be filled out.

So what about the question of always getting two roles? Okay, so it might inconvenience those die-hard mains that only ever play one champion, but if you don't play it in your second role what do you even do whenever you get it? Just dodge? I mean, you've got to already know someone to play there already, right?

8 Comments

Fovere3 votes

I've been playing support main as well, and its difficult trying to branch out since you basically have to rotate 3x roles, and exclude support entirely if you dont want to support.

That said, it's kind of nice knowing what to expect. Would be great if we could get that kind of reliability listing any of the other four roles as primary =p

darkmatchwaldo1 votes

This would destroy supp mains though. If you don't want to play support don't put it in your two choices, if you do want to play support then put it in one of your two choices? It seems pretty simple to me.

Shroom Junkie2 votes

What if I want to play two roles? And no, don't tell me to just set support at one point and two other roles at a second. I'm personally best at top and support but I don't always want to support. So now I have to set my secondary role as top and jungle and live with not playing at my fullest.

JRobin311 votes

Pretty much what I've been saying all season: the queuing profiles are a lie. Fill and secondary support both mean support main in actual reality and the problem is that players can engage in role exclusion. There should be a chance that any player that queues can get a role that he would choose to exclude if he could. And players would be able to get their main role more often with lower queue time...

Nimble Manta1 votes

So you're good at top and support and decent at jungle? Try alternating between top/support and top/jungle every other game, or maybe top/support for every two times you top/jungle. Que as support when you feel like supporting and don't que as it if you're not in the mood, no one is forcing you to make the same selection every time and you're fully capable of deciding if you want to support at the moment or not.

Shroom Junkie1 votes

I hate people like you.

Gated D Latch1 votes

I play support and I love support [slayer-jinx-catface]

Either I put mid/support or support/mid, and have gotten mid once in over 100 games; BUT my queue times are around 5 seconds long (the dream). Just don't tell anyone that you can secretly play a mid lane mage as support ;)

Shroom Junkie2 votes

Its not a secret, its just boring to only play support. I don't personally like mages anyway. Unless Teemo counts as a mage, then I like him.

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