If I get auto filled, give me at least a baning position

JavelinJoe·Dec 8, 2016·125 votes·3,101 views

Being auto filled sucks, but being auto filled and having to first pick sucks even worse. I am already on an unfamiliar role, why should I also have to give the enemy a chance to counter pick me AND not be able to ban something away that would make my time a bit easier?

Yeah I can ask for a champ swap or a ban, but I don't get to make that final decision in the end. It is up to the rest of my team to be cooperative.

#If I get auto filled at least let me ban a champ.

43 Comments

AtheosisXDec 8, 201610 votes

10 bans is coming soon supposedly, so this request is probably pointless. Otherwise I'd support the idea.

kamikazephyrDec 8, 20164 votes

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10 bans is coming soon supposedly, so this request is probably pointless. Otherwise I'd support the idea.

Said who and when?

intraDec 9, 20163 votes

Some Riot employee and SoonTM

salty testiDec 8, 20162 votes

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ManiacalCoyoteDec 8, 20161 votes

Or, just don't autofill me during my placements, promos, or on a winning streak.

B1naryB0tDec 8, 20167 votes

Promos I know for a fact you're safe from autofill. Placements I think you are.

Winning streak? You're not allowed to have that. Riot doesn't allow your happiness.

Then again, what do I know, I'm a support main.

KynamiDec 9, 20162 votes

The thing with promos is you personally are safe from auto-fill but your teammates aren't. Heaven help you if its your jungle that gets auto-filled and doesn't have a clue.

IcyPepperDec 10, 20161 votes

or on a winning streak.

Okay that one makes no sense. The other two you could easily argue for, but special treatment for a mere winning streak is just weird.

ManiacalCoyoteDec 11, 20161 votes

I had way too fucking many times last season when I was one win away from my promo series, and BOOM! "You have been autofilled as ADC." I tried trading, but nobody wanted to. Then, they ridiculed me with bullcrap like "/All Report noob ADC" when I simply didn't know how to be a marksman. No, I'm not joking. I've gotten autofilled as ADC.

How would you like to climb up the entire division, then get stopped short right before your promo series by some bullshit RNG that determines that you should play as something that you're not in the mood for? Let's say you queued up as Top/JG, and got thrown into the clusterfuck that is bottom lane. And you didn't even get the easy-ass role of support. Noooo, Riot thinks that you should really learn how to play a marksman, which you happen to not have, and you're forced to try something. That's why I played Mordekaiser bot lane. Because of fucking autofill.

a mere winning streak

As opposed to being tilted into oblivion by riot's bullshit autofill system.

OrangesilkDec 8, 20161 votes

I mean, 99% of the time, autofill means support. Are you going to ban a support? That's not a great idea except in some very fringe cases.

AtheosisXDec 8, 201623 votes

Huh? Just because you are playing support doesn't mean you have to ban a support. A selfish ban for a support would probably be an ADC or a jungler.

RevaliDec 8, 20163 votes

i tend to ban Zyra "support" because they're super obnoxious for my teammates to lane against, aswell as deal with as the game goes on, currently.

RyuyahDec 9, 20167 votes

Blitzcrank

LauchmelderDec 10, 20161 votes

To be fair, all you need to do is dodge his Q and he's useless (yea, it's that useless advice again, but it works xD). For maximum safety you could pick a Sivir + Morgana botlane.

ahferroin7Dec 10, 20161 votes

The problem is you can't reliably trust your lane partner to dodge it, even if you can.

LauchmelderDec 11, 20161 votes

That's where the Morgana comes into play, if you don't trust your teammate it's the best counterplay option you have.

LordGeovanniDec 11, 20161 votes

Actually Blitz is better when initiateing with W and E than trying to land a long range hook but with that initiation you cant ever know that your ally is gonna help you but if you pull them next to your ally they would have to be brain dead not to hit them. also when you initiate with W E you can easily q from a shorter range as they try to run its a more reliable combo. The problem with blitz is people ONLY rely on his Q hooks

LauchmelderDec 12, 20161 votes

True, but which support doesn't try to keep Blitz away from his teammates? Peeling is one of the supports many jobs after all.

LordGeovanniDec 13, 20161 votes

yes and no as some characters can do it and others can try to do it and suck at it. (unless how everyone expects their examples to go their team is pro and the enemy team is bronze 4 even though matchmakeing puts teams with similar skill supposedly by useing mmr)

Miku AppendDec 9, 20163 votes

Lux and Morgana "support" are pretty annoying as well, not to mention I swear I can never get an ADC that knows to not walk into a Morgana Q. They see it and just have to take a closer look... and then ask me why their screen is grayed out.

KynamiDec 9, 20161 votes

As somebody has a lovely level 7 icon for Morgana among others... they also tend to complain that it shouldn't be possible to shoot that fat Q projectile through the middle of the minion wave. Or the other way around of "I totally dodged it! What do you mean the corner of my hitbox got grazed?!"

Stormshadow3503Dec 9, 20161 votes

As someone who plays Nautilus and Thresh , there's no one more annoying than a taric

SH AzykanDec 8, 20161 votes

I keep getting filled top, kinda annoying actually (I put support/fill, going to swap to support/jg at this rate)

SwordOfWarDec 9, 20161 votes

Sometimes a support ban can be good, for instance banning Morgana if you don't want them to have spell shield

notice me Sin piDec 9, 20161 votes

http://champion.gg/champion/Blitzcrank/Support ??

Supreme Senpai69Dec 9, 20161 votes

Well if you wanna play Blitz or Thresh, you sorta.. have to ban Morgana. If your ADC isn't an Ezreal then you should ban Blitzcrank. You can't trust them to dodge hooks if you've never played with them before. Might wanna ban Soraka too, since ADCs hardly ever buy EC. That's 3 good bans right there.

swordofsunDec 9, 20161 votes

Eh, I get bot and jug fairly frequently. At least in flex queue. I'll just fill and it seems to be the missing person of two groups of two people most of the time.

Relinquisher07Dec 9, 20161 votes

Rofl wut, ive been autofilled less times to support than any other role??

ahferroin7Dec 10, 20161 votes

Actually, among people I know, it's about even between ADC and Support.

Its Mr BustyoassDec 8, 20161 votes

Agreed. +1

sneezing slugDec 9, 20161 votes

Seems reasonable enough.

TheHappyReaperzDec 9, 20161 votes

So ten bans are a thing, they will come out pretty soon.

d4rkshockDec 9, 20161 votes

Another thing about autofill is not only do I hate support due to the incompetence of my team since I can't rely on them to carry me and the fact im their bitch, I suck at adc and if you don't get support, you get adc. One time I had so many dodges that the autofill went haywire and tried to fill me with every position. It will always bee those 2 roles unless by freak accident. If a blue moon occurrs on Friday the 13th, and all the planets are aligned, you will be filled in mid. That happened to me once and I actually got to play mid.

Miku AppendDec 9, 20161 votes

How about this... no autofill below Plat 3. Queue times are relatively low in lower divisions, so there is no reason for it to exist there. I can understand high Plat, Diamond, and so on that they need people to fill in for less desired roles, but at that point those people can play just about any roles to some degree. Lower elo? Pfft. "Vayne or I feed."

TotalJerkDec 9, 20161 votes

I've been requesting that fill/support should be guaranteed a ban for a while.

Thurst28Dec 9, 20161 votes

frankly I would rather be able to trade pick spots with a person then anything. Because not everyone has all the champs and it allows for countering or not getting countered.

OneMustFallDec 9, 20161 votes

Banning. A banning position. We're not talking about Batman villains here.

JavelinJoeDec 10, 20161 votes

Yeah I noticed that, but it was too late to fix it.

Kitten of EvilDec 9, 20161 votes

What happens though when several people are autofilled in the same match? Obviously that shouldn't happen, but matchmaking seems to be surprisingly stupid sometimes.

CåptåinTèèmôDec 9, 20161 votes

Autofill is upsetting.

KirbyCakeDec 10, 20161 votes

you realize picking first is an advantage?

ahferroin7Dec 10, 20163 votes

It has advantages, but it comes with disadvantages too. There are quite a few champs who are suicidal first picks. I love getting first pick when playing support (I can play almost anyone as a support, so I pick some off-the wall flex-pick like Lulu or Kayle and mind-game the enemy team), but I absolutely hate it if I'm top or mid because about 90% of the champs I can play there are obvious top/mid picks who are easy to counter-pick (like Nasus or Ziggs).

LordGeovanniDec 11, 20161 votes

This is like what i was saying with support. more people would play it if they know a certain champion has ruined their last 5 games and they can guarentee a ban on it