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Autofill or 10 minute queue's

mastaweewoo·7/22/2018, 6:25:10 PM·2 votes·1,382 views

Would we rather have autofill to keep queues low or wait 10 minutes.

Personally, for Ranked games I would much rather wait 10 minutes than randomly be filled into a roll I cannot stand to play (currently ADC due to the insane new meta's people are coming up with). When I am playing ranked, I'm not worried about time delays, because I make sure I have spare time just in case it's a longer game due to people taking it more seriously. When teammates get autofilled or I get autofilled, it sets us up for higher stress/lack of care due to accidental feeding.

As far as Draft & Blind Pick I am fine with being auto-filled because it gives me a chance to learn the roll a little better. As a jungle/mid main, this gives me a better perspective on ganking/rotating, however in a ranked game, I don't want to be learning how to play a lane with such an aggressive/defensive play style.

RITO, please, PLEASE get rid of this autofill in ranked play.

2 Comments

ChargeItDownMid7/22/2018, 6:45:42 PM2 votes

The sad part about autofill is that it was added during the middle of season 6 when most people quit due to dynamic queue so they don't even remember how little autofill actually did to decrease queue times. Realistically, all it did was give people their secondary role less in exchange for getting autofilled more. Here are the queue times before and after autofill was extended beyond challenger

https://am-a.akamaihd.net/image?f=https://news-a.akamaihd.net/public/images/articles/2016/june/DQU/graph-queuetime.jpg?v=1

Notice how little effect it actually had on queue times in anything besides high diamond into masters and challenger. People need to stop the fear mongering over removing autofill. Solo queue simply does not need it.

Woodakoodashooda7/22/2018, 7:14:13 PM1 votes

Whenever I want a specific role, I refresh the queue after waiting more than a minute or after someone dodges or declines. This way I am never filled.

Removing auto fill would simply be a QoL change for players like me who know how to work around the system at the expense of longer waiting periods for games.