New Draft Pick "Fill" Option

Watermelòne·1/15/2016, 4:39:39 AM·6 votes·3,799 views

When I first heard about the new "teambuilder" ranked draft pick, I was ecstatic and eager to test it out. After some games however, I'd like to share some of my thoughts, primarily about the fill option.

As a player who tends to prefer game knowledge and shot-calling over pure mechanics, I don't particularly have any preference in roles. I tend to like jungle more, however, as it is less stressful to me than laning. So naturally, I selected my primary role to be jungle and my secondary role to be fill. However, nearly every single time I'm placed into the support role. Now don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with support and I enjoy playing it every so often. Support is cool. Helping your teammates is cool. But god forbid, support gets BORING (to me at least). I favor champions and characters that largely influence the game, such as through split pushing, sneaking objectives, and predicting enemy movement. As support, I lack the tools to provide such an impact without the presence of my allies. I enjoy playing all roles, just not a single one multiple games in a row. Coupled with the incredibly long queue times of high plat/low diamond, I spend 6-7 minutes doing nothing only to get matched into yet another support role. Rito pls, implement some customization to the fill role, so that more flexible players like myself can play roles without setting our minds into one.

tl;dr: Fill option=support, customization would be greatly appreciated.

6 Comments

Dediguise1/15/2016, 4:44:48 AM3 votes

I like that you phrased your critique in an intelligent way, but to be fair 99.9% of the time fill meant support before dynamic q was a thing.

Igotlazy1/15/2016, 4:49:52 AM3 votes

That goes against what "Fill" means. When you click Fill, you're telling the game "Hey man I'll do whatever". It should be expected that you'll get support considering the low amount of players selecting that role.

Imagine you have 5 employees at a Super Market. There are 5 tasks. Cash, Storage, Security, Fish Section Guy (couldn't think of a 5th) and Cleaning. If your Manager asks "what do you want to do?" and you say "I'm up for anything" then you'll get Cleaning, because no one else wants to do fucking Cleaning.

Blazerdrop1/15/2016, 4:50:49 AM1 votes

You pointed out a problem I am having too. I have trouble selecting my two strongest roles because I largely try to counter the other team with the best option I have left. I often support when it is the best option I have to help the team but I am scared to put fill or support as my second role because I know I will get it every time. Like wise, I like counter picking top (I play a lot of vlad) but if I don't get the preferred match up, top is not my best choice. I can't know how these things are going to play out, and I feel like I am going to get stuck in a certain couple of roles, and it doesn't sound fun to me. Not feeling this new set-up.

volkaa10/11/2018, 10:19:46 PM1 votes

exactly ...no further question ur honor !