Why Autofill Is Broken

Accenix·1/29/2020, 6:08:45 PM·2 votes·2,177 views

Honestly, autofill has changed a lot in the recent years. It used to be autofill support because it was unenjoyable and no one wanted to even play it. But recently it's been top and jungle. we're getting some " buffs" to jungle xp which is pretty much a placebo, and won't fix anything and still make the role unfun to play, and to play against. Moving on to top, toplane it by far the most unfun role in the entire game. You get matched up with ranged bullies or mages, and have no pressure on the map early at all, I had to switch to mid because honestly, it's stronger and you can actually help yourself win and not have to flip a coin to determine the outcome of the game. You get fed top, it's EXTREMELY difficult to actually carry when bot lost early and has a 3 drake advantage. Even if you get both heralds and all 5 plates, and are up 3 kills on your laner, you could still very well lose. (As well as the ganks at 3 minutes OR complete lack of jungle help, depending)

This is where autofill comes in. Support and adc are no longer the "Autofill roles", this has become top and jungle. Jungle is very very very unfun to play, and I have a 2.3million mastery point vi who can back me up on this. The xp is fucked, it's feast or famine, you win, you win hard, and vice versa. However, if you're good at jungle you can easily take over a game. Autofill jungles, on the other hand, because no one wants to play the role, are a plague. That's pretty much a dodge, people who don't know objective pressure or pathing, can pretty much determine the outcome of the game, it's better jungle meta, junglers are sick of being flamed and are quitting. Top is pretty much a role everyone is being autofilled in and not being able to play their mains because they have to stick with the coinflip role that game. It's honestly determine a majority of games.

Of course some of this is fact, and the rest is just perspective. The point is, if Rito would just balance the damn roles, autofill would drop, and people could go back to playing what they like, not what they need to play to win, and this would improve the overall toxicity and quality of ranked matches.

(Side note can anyone get me the actual data of the overall winrate between each role?)

2 Comments

Zeraphicus1/30/2020, 3:02:38 PM2 votes

As a jungle main I agree with this. I am tired of being the scapegoat of the team. I agree the role has the biggest variable impact on winning. Right now it is a gigantic snowball that is decided levels 1-6. Imagine losing top lane and not having a tower to retreat to, that is the current jungle iteration. Even if they stay out of your jungle you still cant farm back in, it sucks.