Why are Jungle and Top the new autofill?

PizzaDeliveryguy··1 votes·1,173 views

Look at the question above.

Now I´d like to know why this is the case, because that´s a huge problem for me. Autofill in general is not a bad thing. Unless it´s ranked. My point is, speaking for myself only, I can cover 3 out of 5 lanes/roles in ranked. I even queue as a secondary Support main. But lately autofill has ruined my ranked games cause I get neither of my 3 main roles, but my two unwanted roles. Yes I perform poorly in these roles, yes I´ve tried to learn them and I don´t enjoy them. Jungle and Top are my problem areas.

I´ve been playing since early season 4, which is not really impressing but nonetheless quite some time. Support has always been a lackluster role and I always filled in when needed. Even when autofill became a thing I still played support secondary and filled in when I had e.g. Bot and mid.

But now that support has actually become a decent and popular role I hardly get it anymore. Autofill always ends in my worst two roles and I almost never get to switch with someone else, because few people want Jungle/Top anymore.

TL;DR - Why does no one want to play these roles in ranked? Am I the only suffering in ranked because getting stuck on the only 2 roles they can not perform well on? (3 out of 5 is a pretty good tendency after all)

6 Comments

Sujiren2 votes

Tops been the shitiest role to carry from since like s4, even support now probably has a higher carry potential, and the recent tank item nerfs does not help

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

as someone who chooses autofill in most games... i get all 5 roles

last game i just got auto filled adc, last night i was autofilled mid ( dont care for mid so swapped with someone) auto filled jungle top

i just choose fill and play if i get a role i dont want like mid , i just say hey anyone wanna mid ? if not there are a few champs i can play to get by with

Primal Fear1 votes

Jungle around plat level is something people have to get used to. Junglers constantly fail in Platinum, causing them to completely abandon the role. Top lane is just a boring mess. You're either against a tank or against a Fiora/Riven, which are considered overpowered right now.

But honestly, whenever I duo with people, I never see them get autofilled if they lock support as their primary role. That might be your solution.

Sun Wu Ryuumoku1 votes

jungler autofilled is still rare... For top its more a coin flip, and as u said u are against tank so u can't do any sh*t. And the game is played at the other side of the map.

DarkRitual1 votes

Is you're able to play support, queue for it as primary with mid secondary. If you get support, ride that autofill protection train. Rinse. Repeat. Never play those roles you are bad at ever again!

Requiemsfire1 votes

Just pick Galio Darius Kled and you will definitely make an impact. :)

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