Auto-fill has reduced ranked games to a dice roll. When is this going to be improved?
Nearly 100% of my ranked losses right now are caused by auto-fill, and I assume the vast majority of my wins are also attributed to auto-fill, because a player in a role they absolutely cannot play essentially turns the game into a 4v5; in most cases, the team with the auto-filled player would be better off if they just left or went AFK.
I'm estimating that every single game right now has at least one auto-fill, and it's not always support. I'm encountering auto-filled jungle and top significantly more often than support. I've even encountered a couple of auto-filled mid lanes, which leads me to believe that the entire feature is broken or too aggressive in trying to start games quickly, with no regard for whether the match-up is good.
Yesterday, I had a 5 loss streak, where every single loss had at least one (often two) players on my team auto-filled. In most of these games, myself and another player both won our lanes and helped the auto-filled players stay in the game, but we could not compensate for their lack of knowledge and skill with their role/champion. Even giving them a gold advantage, they couldn't really do anything, because they couldn't effectively play their champions.
This may be fine in normal, but it's not okay in ranked. Something really needs to be done; ranked games should always prioritize a good match up over a fast queue.
Also note that auto-fill is not equivalent to the pre-draft issue of having to play all roles. In those days, you had to play most roles regularly, so you were always in practice and proficient at all or most roles. Right now, you play your primary role in 90% of games, which leaves you out of practice with the other roles.
mains Mid, jungle 2nd. Has over 130 games jungle, Was rango 2 games previously both losses. This is not him being filled, its playing a champ hes bad at. Due to Role protection after being filled I doubt that he was autofilled some how for the 3rd game straight of rango.
, Mains Mid tops 2ndary. 1 out of 4 games as grag at losses and his win rates are sub 50% both his main roles, honestly looks like this guy just 1 tricked ahri to climb ladder. Dude played 2 games of grag a few days ago on same day. Dude played grag and lost in your game and later the same day, well with in what Role protection covers. Doubt he was filled.
Mains Mid and ADC. Looks like they hopped on the Janna bandwagon cuz they played it befor your loss,so again protections in place, his own fault to play it. Not related to auto fill.
Mains ADC, 2nd is Jungle. Terrible win rates on both roles. and this guy shoulda just stuck to playing WW. Anyhow had adc game befor and game after, looks like a bandwagon cuz its not a position he wins at well.
So 0 fill impact.
has almost 100 games as jayce and mains top.
ADC main, ran twich randomly who it seems is not one of his main ADC picks. Of his most played champions 7 out of 10 are ADC. 4 out of 5 top played are also adc. Not a fill
Mains support but decided to troll your team for who knows why. Was
game befor so they had Auto fill protection.
0 fill impact.
Mains top had 4 win urgot top streak befor your loss. Cant blame fill
This guys unranked WTF BBQ.. oh wait he is duoing with your thresh and was Plat and gold last 2 seasons. Suppose his MMR is not to far off. Also regardless that would not be related to Fill. going from previous his best role was jungle and in season 5 4 out of 5 top played champions where jungles and all of them positive win rates.
Adc Main, has 35 games as trist making her their 2nd most played champ. also adc for 1st most games and adc in 3rd 4th 5th. Not filled.
The other duo, doesn't seem to be playing much ranked. Did a lot of support in season 3. Alistar 2nd most played champ last season. Currently break down is 50% jungle and 50% support. If you want to claim this is an auto fill loss despite this guy playing supports over the last several yeares then screw it I wont contradict you.
Top main, Bad jax. Not filled. went on to play back to back 2 more games of jax and lost both.
Jungled both games prior to your match won them both. Not filled
last 6 games are all adc. Mains adc and mid. Negative on the fill chief.
Exclusively runs jungle. Has 2 games as top and 1 game adc outside of that. Kinda hard to blame fill as odds are they got their 2nd role and just suck at it. Also was 2nd best in damage and had 3rd best kda so shes not the main contribution to that loss. I cant see blaming auto fill for this, dude 1 tricks jungle.
Mains adc 2ndary is jungle. Looks like its again NOT A FILL. Capslocks op.
ADC main.