Prefered position indicator

Rian·Mar 26, 2019·18 votes·9,465 views

I´d like to suggest a small qol improvement for matchmaking and team comunication. Nothing major just two small symbols next to the name indicating the primary and secondary role you actually queued for. Or something similar to the prfered pick preview for roles.

The main purpose is for people who got autofilled but it would be beneficial in other situations too.

Yes you could use chat but there are a lot of problems:

1.) It´s hard to keep track if there are more information like multiple people want to switch role, other important discussions or non gameplay related stuff ("prefer mid", "hi", "can jungle", ...). It´s just much faster and clearer if you can see what a person wants instantly.

2.) Backtracking in chat history ("wait what role did he want again?"). Chat space is limited and can scroll fast sometimes. By the time you check what someone said you might miss other information.

7 Comments

Red Mage FTSMar 26, 20196 votes

I like this idea, but the issue it causes is kinda big.

Ideally there is 20% of the player base for each role, but its not in truith. Supp and jung are underpopulated (at least in my elo) and thus you will never/rarley see those little role indicators, but when you do by god is there gonna be an issue.

Player 1, put supp, has mid top selected Player 2, putt mid, has top mid selected player 3, put top, has top sup slected

player 1 will fight for mid and try and screw player 2 and 3 out saying "i see you can do x so do it i cant"

KazekibaMar 26, 20191 votes

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I like this idea, but the issue it causes is kinda big.

Ideally there is 20% of the player base for each role, but its not in truith. Supp and jung are underpopulated (at least in my elo) and thus you will never/rarley see those little role indicators, but when you do by god is there gonna be an issue.

Player 1, put supp, has mid top selected Player 2, putt mid, has top mid selected player 3, put top, has top sup slected

player 1 will fight for mid and try and screw player 2 and 3 out saying "i see you can do x so do it i cant"

Maybe im the exception but if I was 3 in your scenario, I'd go support and let 1 go Top.

It's not just you though, Support/Jungle are the least desired roles at the moment. Depends more on region than Elo, check Meddler's QGT I think the 22nd or 20th

Red Mage FTSMar 26, 20191 votes

Will have a look, thanks.

MonlythMar 26, 20192 votes

In that scenario, I would think that Player 1 gets mid, player 2 gets top, and player 3 gets supp. Then nobody would be autofilled.

Red Mage FTSMar 27, 20191 votes

Ah but the issue is first and second pick. By that standard anyone who has jg or supp is going to ALWAYS be jg or support, so first pick top second pick supp (or first pick bot second pick supp for me back when i was learning adc) would NEVER allow the player to get their ideal role.

JalesomMar 26, 20191 votes

Showing this when say 3 people all queued 1st pick mid would definitely help players understand when and how to swap. The understanding would likely decrease dodges. It would validate that pre queue message about queue times and fill protection. It would help problem solve on the fly.

The clear problem It creates is that swapping may cause you to go against a much better player, etc. But that may happen with swapping anyways

Another option like champion swap button would be a position swap button. This would help with tracking as well I think. Not sure how much it could be abused though. After lane placement you would have a chance to swap lane. After champion selection we can already swap champions. Would it be Difficult to code in if it already exists in some manner??

BigFBearMar 27, 20191 votes

I think they will not a do it because people would dodge more if they see they have 1 or 2 autofills in game. Also Junglers wouldn't gank autofills etc.