How often to people actually get Autofilled?

TheHappyReaperz··21 votes·7,417 views

I'd like to start this off by saying I'm not much of a Ranked player. However, I recently went through my placements, and was surprised at how little I was Autofilled. From the various complaints I've seen on the Boards, I thought I would be getting Autofilled every other game. However, I was only Autofilled for two of my games. It just makes me wonder, how much people really get Autofilled.

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RlP K0BE14 votes

I think the boards tend to exaggerate things. Out of 10 games I tend to get autofilled 1-2 times. I queue for jg/mid if that helps.

AMYS GRAVE3 votes

I would like to point out that if you are average and get autofilled 1 out of 10 games, then there is on average one autofilled player every game.

drakuIa4211 votes

except that's not how it realisticly works.

AMYS GRAVE3 votes

Actually that is how averages work. Some games will have 0 some games will have 2 or 3 but if each player gets autofilled 1 in 10 games then every game will have on average 1 autofilled player because there are 10 players per game.

Quepha10 votes

What happens is you get people who feel personally offended that they could ever be autofilled into support and dodge the game. Since they never actually play out a game where they are autofilled, they never get the immunity period where it's impossible to be autofilled. Many people include champ selects where they personally dodged when claiming that people get auto-filled all the time or multiple times in a row.

Ariel the Cruel10 votes

Three factors to consider:

  1. Sample size Bronze/silver contain some 60-70% of the [ranked] player-base. During placements, you float ambiguously in that range. Meaning there are more people to pull from for each role than in higher elo.

  2. Selective memory People are more prone to remembering negative experiences than positive ones. Riot did a demonstration of this back on the old forums for toxicity. People who posted as consistently getting trolls/feeders/afk's/etc. in their games got a free 30 game review. On average, only 2-3 of those games exhibited any noteworthy level of toxicity. Safe to assume the same thing is happening with people who don't want to be auto-filled.

  3. Vocal minority Not everyone has a problem with auto-fill. People who have nothing to complain about, have no reason to speak out. Conversely, unhappy people generally have something to be unhappy about and a vested interest in speaking out against it.

Actually. These factors apply to just about anything you read on the forums. XD


EDIT: Not relevant, but given the topic. . . I personally have never been auto-filled. I also rarely see mention about being auto-filled. But, as a support main, I rarely lose auto-fill protection either. So hard for me to empathize. (>_>)

DrCyanide4 votes

Out of my 16 Flex Queue games queuing Mid/ADC, I've been Auto Filled zero times.

Out of my 13 Solo Queue games queuing Mid/ADC, I had a support duo partner for about half of those games games, but I haven't been Auto Filled in my solo games there either.

So... yeah. 29 games no Auto Fill yet.

eufleuria3 votes

Never.

Although I always have Sup/Mid, one game I got landed into Mid instead of Sup. Surprised and devastated I was. (:

JJI7443 votes

Gut feeling: about once in every 20 games for me. I usually queue up as top/mid. Low Plat ranking. I get auto-filled into jungle and support at roughly equal rates.

YoungFarmer2 votes

I find I get autofilled only when I duo with a friend. When I solo it isn't often at all.

Skorch2 votes

I queue for fill... : ^)

Im probably masochistic.

Miku Append2 votes

support main; gets secondary role as mid ONCE in a blue moon because Riot autofilled a random

Ruukuegg2 votes

Bot/support and I was autofilled 4 out of 10 placements

Takazaki1 votes

out of almost 20 games not autofilled once

420 grams1 votes

About 1 out of 10 or 15

nice table1 votes

i dont really even notice getting autofilled unless its into the marksman role that fucks me, don't really get autofilled too often though today and yesterday combined i was autofilled twice, once to middle and once to support.

Jasiwel1 votes

I am Low ELO. Apparently, every one of my games has an Autofilled individual. I queue up as Jungle/Fill/Bottom. If our team didn't have one, the other team did. If the individual makes a lot more mistakes and does not optimally use their champion at any point, then they're typically an Autofill.

When I played a lot of ADC, my support was often Autofilled, so they didn't do a lot of support things they needed to for us to secure a win. Even if we demolished lane, they'd overextend and pretend to be the AP Carry anyways...just to die a gruesome death and give us a 4v5 situation. If they weren't an Autofill, then they'd at least try and stay close to me regularly during fights.

I've noticed more Autofills will typically flame and provoke negative behavior. A lot of the time, I've seen them basically say "whatever, this isnt even my role choice" and play haphazardly for the rest of the game.

rtbf761092711 votes

The thing is, it's not only about PERSONALLY being autofilled. It's more about how many games you have someone autofilled what so ever. Since they are for sure going to be worse at that role compared to the one they play every time, and are very likely to perform worse than normal.

Lets say you being autofilled in 2 out of 10 of your placements was exactly the chance of being autofilled, 20%. This means that on every team with 5 players, you would expect on average one to be autofilled on each team. That means that auotfill effects the vast majority of games, and usually in a negative way. Since people do either very poorly, pick leblanc support, or just dont want to play another role and have less fun.

theArtifacts1 votes

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and usually in a negative way..

This is personal opinion, not fact. Might want to look up the difference ;)

Also - it's closer to 8 - 10 % of games with an autofill in silver and below.

rtbf761092711 votes

If it's the personal opinion of the majority of people, it kind of becomes a fact that it's usually negative xd xd xd xd

theArtifacts1 votes

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If it's the personal opinion of the majority of people, it kind of becomes a fact that it's usually negative xd xd xd xd

But this isn't the majority.

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Aptest1 votes

once every 10-15 games

MinaZer01 votes

I queue for Mid/Top and I get autofilled once every 7 or so games.

6Sfool1 votes

I get autofilled about once every 15-20 games. It reminds me to stop spamming one role and to switch it up.

LegitBacon661 votes

I rarely see myself autofilled, but every 2nd game I get a teammate who says they got autofilled asking for a trade.

dim2a1 votes

I'd say about 1 in 10. And most of the time for non-support roles (about half of the autofills I get sup, the other half top/adc), someone will trade if asked nicely.

Junkο1 votes

9 out of 10 times I queue up while autofill is up. I don't really care about supp because usually somebody offers to swap, but I got autofilled as ADC a few times(about as equal times as support shockingly), and nobody wants to swap into such a bad role atm. Sad part is I prob did way more when playing stuff like Veigar "ADC" than actually picking an ADC.

swordofsun1 votes

I play Flex, but queue as Top/Sup and almost always get Top actually. I don't think I've been autofilled although I've trades with people who have been.

JVP151 votes

Never. I actually main support. Autofill immunity is sweet baby.

theArtifacts1 votes

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Never. I actually main support. Autofill immunity is sweet baby.

Until you queue and get teamed with a bot/sup duo and you get auto filled ;)

DarkRitual1 votes

That duo has to queue up listing three roles between them, so if you go supp/bot, one of them is just as likely to get pushed to another role.

theArtifacts1 votes

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That duo has to queue up listing three roles between them, so if you go supp/bot, one of them is just as likely to get pushed to another role.

No.. not just as likely since the support and bot roles are the least queued roles right now. I only point this out cause it happened to me last week. 2 duo bot partners on one team, and we got split up.

Glory ln Death2 votes

That's... exactly what he was saying.

JVP151 votes

In which case, I might just get Top lane. I hope I get top lane as I will have Autofill Immunity from playing support 24/7 in ranked and Queue up at support/top. It has happened before, and I almost hope it will happen again (BTW, Sion is sleeper OP if you don't feed your ass off in the laning phase).

Glory ln Death1 votes

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(BTW, Sion is sleeper OP if you don't feed your ass off in the laning phase).

Stop talking. Don't reveal our secrets to the general populace - you wouldn't want him to suddenly become FOTM, now, would you?

WingsofGulgazor1 votes

I have support/bot and I get support pretty much every game but I do notice a lot of people get placed into adc when they don't know anything about the role :/

Captain Aishi1 votes

as a top/mid player, i get filled once every four games or so (including the two autofill protected games after the previous fill)

but then again, top/mid player lol

(although I don't mind autofill at all)

AMYS GRAVE1 votes

as a support, not very often, but i do have streaks where i get someone on my team who is autofilled. It probably averages out to about 1 in 4 games where someone on my team has been autofilled and assuming the sameish rate on the other team that means every other game has an autofill one way or the other.

Sraeg20131 votes

About once every four or less games.

Or rather, I would, if I wasn't instantly dodging the moment nobody responds to my swap request.

Glory ln Death1 votes

And that's why it happens to you so often.

Sraeg20131 votes

Yeah and if I played support, then for how long would I be protected? 2 games? Not to mention that remakes also take up the autofill protection and I get them quite often.

I'd rather waste 3/10 LP, than to gamble my ELO and 5-2 times as much LP to not get autofilled in maybe the next 3 games.

  1. It requires less time.
  2. The penalty is lower.
  3. It's better for my mental health.
Awesomedude88881 votes

I personally rarely get autofilled (but when I do it's to jungle and not support >_<). However, I do get autofilled supports in ~40% of my games.

Sukishoo1 votes

I've only had it happen once every 10-15 games, so not much.

The Deckowner1 votes

I am a support main so autofill doesn't happen to me.

But what the board complain about autofill isn't an individual's chance of getting autofilled, but rather a team's chance of having an autofilled player.

Hyperiön1 votes

I normally only get auto filled like 1-2 every 10 games. Nothing to gripe about because you get a few game immunity right after.

Spoofghoul1 votes

too often

though i often don't care too much about it

Niyumi1 votes

Once every 3-4 games, if I don't pick fill beforehand. But someone is autofilled somewhere every game.

salt5551 votes

today i got filled 5 games in a row. then when i finaly got the roll i wanted mid afked at 5 minutes

SÓRÒ1 votes

got autofilled 5/5 games in a row xD

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