Autofill really doesn't improve match quality in low elo, at all.

Sam Davies··3 votes·677 views

I was gonna post this on the reddit, but the reddit challenjours would probably just dismiss this and tell me to kill myself, however:

Autofill is shit.

A lot of people might disagree with me, however I find it to be shit, and useless.

And when I say autofill, i mean somebody who doesn't play support is forced to play support because that is basically all it is. No other roles get autofilled.

I really don't mind being autofilled as support once in awhile, since I can play it, however it feels like every other game the 'support' is saying "can someone swap with me pls i dont play support".

Most of the time, if the enemy team has a support main or someone barely competent at the role on their team, then my botlane just gets rolled, and the game is lost.

Autofill was introduced in attempt to shorten queue time and "increase match quality", my queue times are pretty much the same, but my matches are utter dogshit.

It really doesn't help that this is the meta where the winning botlane wins the game 70% of the time, so every time you get an autofill support there's an increased chance in losing.

7 Comments

Espy Psyche2 votes

Why do we even have autofill below Plat anyway? It's honestly not necessary. There's so many players in those tiers that someone will have queued for fill/support.

Sam Davies1 votes

Agreed, in plat+ the queue times are longer so I suppose it's needed there, however there's no reason to have it gold and below.

Vanic9981 votes

Actually I'd disagree. Last season I was gold and my q times were 8 minutes on average and once 16 minutes.

Sam Davies1 votes

So you're saying that you'd sacrifice a 5 minute shorter queue time for potentially losing the game because you have people on your team who can't play the role they are given?

Vanic9981 votes

I'm disagreeing with you saying that auto fill is not needed in gold.

MagicFlyingLlama1 votes

Autofill jungle actually happens, and is typically way worse than support.

Eedat1 votes

Autofill was introduced in attempt to shorten queue time and "increase match quality"

No it wasnt. It was introduced to keep queue times from erupting to over 20 minutes

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