Autofill seems to waste a lot of time for an incidental reason.

Prophet of Urgod·12/28/2016, 7:30:15 AM·14 votes·1,164 views

I get people who were auto filled and don't want the role they got so they dodge. Then maybe someone who was in my lobby who had mid, rejoins and now they are support so they dodge. I am not saying this happens every time nor am I saying I have proof that this is the causation for every dodge. Dodges just seem to be up and sometimes it can take several more minutes for another queue to be found. I'd rather get the role I want than queuing up multiple times.

Edit: Also with the same people getting queued up again-but on different teams- the champs they wanted to play get banned by the opposing team which leads to more dodges.

Second game since posting, and I have been in queue for 7 minutes (queued as support and fill mine you) with four dodges with people asking to trade positions due to auto fill. How does a game this popular suffer from something like this. I could only imagine what high elo players go through.

13 Comments

Meanie4012/28/2016, 10:19:13 AM2 votes

Riot really needs to do one of two things:

  1. Either MASSIVELY increase dodge penalties (for example, two hours for the first dodge, 24 for the second) to "enforce" their autofill (if they really want autofill to be a thing, then make it "mandatory"), or

  2. Revert New Champ Select. Yes, revert the whole damn thing, and go back to pick order where everyone had to play support about 20% of the time, and you actually had to be competent at more than one or two roles.

Radiant Wukong12/28/2016, 7:31:52 AM1 votes

This.

TBNP12/28/2016, 9:55:35 AM1 votes

Fucking. This. Get fucking rid of autofill at LEAST in bronze V-Plat I. This is a fucking problem. Lets not forget normal games which ALSO has autofill. I've queued up 19 fucking times, got support or some other role I cant play for shit in NORMAL GAMES and been forced to dodge because either I didnt get support and the poor soul who did was gonna troll, or I was support and had to dodge, etc. I've been waiting for 90 fucking minutes all because of this shit system that claims to LOWER queue times. Bullshit. Fix your fucking system.

dominusx12/28/2016, 4:29:01 PM1 votes

actually in high elo we pretty much know eachother since we played more than once together. Per say if i get top and we have a guy ik mains toplane and is higher rank than me i wouldnt mind giving him top since he is the better player. also we know what role most of us play. had games where i autofilled mid and people told me i can jungle/top because they know i'm a weak midlaner but decent jungler

Lucian Waifu12/28/2016, 10:38:42 PM1 votes

You are only level 22, how are you in a queue that is 7 minutes that isn't even for a ranked game?!?!