My Thoughts on Autofill

Emajl·1/1/2018, 4:08:38 AM·5 votes·594 views
Ask Riot: Autofilled - Nexus

HELLO! Im gonna be a little crybaby here but please read it, i have gotten pretty tilted more than once thanks to the Autofill System!

What Is Autofill? Autofill is a system that Riot added to make the queue times shorter, by putting you in a lane that you did not choose. More often than not you get autofilled to Support. When you have gotten autofilled you will get autofill protected the next game.

What Is The Problem? The problem with autofill is that by putting for example a Top lane main in the Support lane, they will not play as well as someone that wants to play Support. The person that gets autofilled to Support will probably get "Tilted" and not play as well as he would if he got the lane he wanted, he may even troll. If he gets "tilted" he may take it out on his teammates and ruin the experience for the whole team.

Trolling. If he even starts to troll it will be a terrible game for everybody, it will be a waste of time for all of the teammates. Often it will be a Surrender at 20 Minutes and no one will be happy after wasting all of that time! What do you do when you get autofilled and REALLY dont want to play that lane? You simply have 3 options, Troll, Play the game or Dodge. If you troll it will be a waste of time for the team, if you play the enemies might have an advantage. Dodging might be the smartest option the most of the time, but you will get a time out and dont even get autofill protected.

Ranked. In ranked the rules are changed, you will have autofill protected if you are in Series or in Promos but not otherwise. Having autofill in ranked will make these 3 options much harder, if you troll you lose Lp and waste time, if you play the game you will probably lose. In ranked the smartest option is still Dodging but you still get the time out and lose some Lp.

My Opinions. In my opinion i would rather wait an extra 5-10 minutes than waste my time on a 20-30 minute game where no one is happy, i think most would agree with me! As an ADC main it's stressfull enough to sit through the champion select hoping that they won't ban my main Draven , if i want to play a fun game with my friends i dont want to be scared to get autofilled already in the queue. As i said im an Adc main so i have played with a couple of autofilled supports that do not want to play support so they either troll or play without knowing what to do. This is especially frustrating in Ranked when you are trying to climb.

Personally i hope that they will remove autofill or atleast make the system better, atleast remove it in ranked. PLEASE! Thank you for reading! Vote and Comment what you think!

8 Comments

Aimléss1/1/2018, 6:04:25 AM3 votes

Even if Riot deems autofill necessary, the current system is so flawed that I don't see how they have yet to announce any plans to tweak it. Eg.

  1. I get 2 or even 3 autofills on my team and the enemy team has none.
  2. I que ADC, but get autofilled Sup so I can support an autofilled ADC. Really Riot?
  3. I get autofilled after waiting in que for like less than 2 minutes. What is the point of autofill if I've only been waiting for 2 minutes?
Leah Kakuni1/1/2018, 7:34:20 AM2 votes

If you play sion top, just play him support xd.

ampheon1/2/2018, 3:14:11 AM2 votes

When you main support so you rarely get auto-filled

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

ZephyrDrake1/1/2018, 6:06:22 AM1 votes

You are way to late to the "I hate autofill remove plox" train

Nyarlathοtep1/1/2018, 12:17:10 PM1 votes

Should Autofill Get Removed?

YES YES YES YES!