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Auto-fill

Lafouboy·12/14/2016, 12:05:04 AM·5 votes·732 views

You sure do gotta love when you or your duo partner are in promos and you get auto-filled to a position you don't know how to play well; putting a player into a role they did not ask for that they will likely do mediocre in.

Now, hear me out. How about we give an option to disable auto-fill for lower elo ranked (Bronze to mid-Diamond)? Those of us who wish to get our roles will be just fine waiting the extra time it takes to find a team. After all, I'm cool with being auto-filled in norms, but for matches that really matter, I really don't want to get stuck into a role that I know I can't do well in the slightest. I am sure that nobody else on my team wants that either. For lower elos, the wait time will be increased somewhat, but I'm willing to wait extra time to get a role that I feel confident in so that I don't end up feeding and being a burden upon my teammates. Because, in my opinion, auto-fill has no place in ranked. Ranked is supposed to be a test of skill. The only thing your testing, when put into a role you can't play, is your teammates' patience.

Please don't think I'm saying the auto-fill system is a bad one, just not one that I think should be forced upon players in a ranked environment. The leading cause of toxicity among teammates is someone doing badly in their role; forcing someone into a role they can't play reliably in a ranked environment (where everyone is much more serious about winning) is guaranteed to leave everyone on your team unhappy.

Please Riot. Give an option to players whether they want to participate in auto-fill. It will make almost everyone (myself included) much happier.

3 Comments

Knight Sky12/14/2016, 12:10:13 AM3 votes

I completely agree, this is a great idea! how in the world have they not thought of this?

Lafouboy12/14/2016, 12:19:20 AM2 votes

I see I am getting downvoted. Just so that the tone in the text is clear, I am not saying this at all to whine. I am honestly just trying to suggest a solution for a very real issue for many individuals. Please don't read this in a demanding, sarcastic, etc. tone. Text can be hard to tell tone on, after all. The tone is meant to be calm and hopefully welcoming for discussion. So, even if you disagree, could you please either upvote the post or not vote on the post at all? I want this to get to as many people as possible so that we can have a discussion about it. Sorry if this seems like begging; I just know that downvoted posts tend to get skipped by many people.

Also, I know the counter argument well for this: "Well if you are playing ranked, you should be ready to play any position."

But my rebuttal to that is that Riot put this new ranked system into play previously so that we could avoid people not getting roles they want, thus causing them to play in a role they are generally mediocre in. Also, from personal experience of playing all roles over the last 4 years, there are just some roles people can't do well in certain positions, no matter how much they practice them.