When I play in high silver to low gold without autofill (in normal games) I wait for around 3 minutes average and I get my role 90% of the time. Implementing autofill allows me to only wait a minute and a half for a game but I don't receive my role 80% of the time. Personally I would rather wait a minute and a half longer for my preferred role.
If you agree with this upvote if you don't agree downvote. Riot needs feedback it's still the preseason.
I feel like Riot thinks we don't do anything but stare at the lobby screen when we queue up...ffs i can go watch a video or sth.
Agreed, I have several accounts spreading from bronze to plat and I never wait more than 3-5 minutes EXCEPT when people dodge
I've never understood it in low elo. It makes sense in high elos where you might be waiting 30-40 minutes for a game, but not in like bronze-plat where you'll usually wait at most 5 minutes.
I'd basically quit playing League if I was forced to play a role I don't like. Thankfully I main support so I'm in no danger... for now. (Farming puts me to sleep yo)
Eventually they will solve the problem at the root, and stop making supports feel like a gimped version of any other position, then we won't need it.
I suspect it was to prevent those calling 'fill' (who make matchmaking easier and faster) from giving up doing so, after getting bored with 9 times of out 10 being support.
As a support main i feel insulted to not get my main role because of that stupid Auto-fill.
I play 95% of the time support and 5% of the time something else.
That said i was surprised to see me getting top in ranked game after 1 whole year of getting support role always.
or normal games
I was playing Ranked back in 2014, when you had to be good with AT LEAST one champion in every role to even consider ranking so... I couldn't really care less about auto fill and I personally don't understand why people care SO MUCH about it.
At least this isn't the standard whiny bitch anti-autofill post, thanks for not being a bitch. But honestly, the entire game used to be autofill 100% of the time in season 5 and before, so I have a hard time sympathizing with this stance. You should be able to play every role if you want to improve your rank, and it appears that Riot might also believe that (they are obviously preventing OTPs from spamming their one champ/role).
The best solution for role selection is to make a checkbox for all 5 roles and allow people to queue up for as many roles as they want (at least two up to 5). That way if someone doesn't want to support or can't ADC, you don't have autofill essentially causing low quality games.
Which is what is happening right now. Sure we're getting lower "pop" times but there are far more dodges now so overall queue times are at least as long if not longer than before. Not only that but now games are of a much lower quality with people who "can't support" being put into the position. My personal opinion is people who can't play all five roles shouldn't be playing ranked to start with but I digress.
The point is as an ADC main, I don't want someone as support who A. Doesn't want to support B. Doesn't know how to support. I'll wait the extra three minutes for a higher quality match instead of getting quick "pops", sitting through multiple dodges and getting a guy who can't support or having to support myself (Even though I'm decent at it).
I kinda wish I could just queue for one role... I would rather wait ten minutes and play who I want.
This is so backwards. Auto fill should be for low elo. It should be turned off in high elo where it seriously impacts games. I'm sure all high elo players would prefer to wait an extra 3 min.
Riot wants your game to be stable. When you join up to play a game, you enter into a peer-to-peer web structure with the other players of your game in order to maximize reaction times and stability.** In order to ensure that everyone has mostly equal footing, the matchmaker has to find 10 players who:**
In high traffic regions in the bronze-plat ELOs, this is not much of a problem. A while back Riot released some info on the autofill system: https://am-a.akamaihd.net/image?f=https://news-a.akamaihd.net/public/images/articles/2016/june/DQU/graph-autofilling.jpg?v=1
At that time, unless you're in the upper tiers of Diamond, you wouldn't run into autofill much. There is some small percentage of bronze players who have to be autofilled, simply because those players are the lowest of trolls and there aren't many legitimate players near that ELO (lose every game for 100 games in a row). Riot has most likely changed the autofill algorithms a bit since then, as they have stated the often do behind the scenes. They want to get a good balance of speed while allowing most of the players to get their preferred roles. As they already had a major screw up once by allowing larger ELO ranges to play against each other, I suspect they are focusing most of their attention on Autofill rates to combat queue times.
P.S. Your statement of not receiving your role "80% of the time" is completely false. You gain autofill protection after autofilling OR playing a support game. If you really don't want to get autofilled, choose to play support for every 5th game. It's not that bad.
Sincerely, -A Soraka main
