I think I know how to make auto-fill less necessary
Make all the roles fun and balanced to play.
https://i.imgflip.com/jfyqs.jpg?a416472
Before anyone says that's impossible, let me just say: Season 5
Make all the roles fun and balanced to play.
https://i.imgflip.com/jfyqs.jpg?a416472
Before anyone says that's impossible, let me just say: Season 5
Obviously. There trying to make support more rewarding and make top lane not a tank slugfest and make adc not worthless. Oops, They're, not there.
Release Azir, and Kalista. Ranger's Trailblazer making it so literally anyone could jungle, and because of that, no one could jungle. Supports were bad, no interesting items like the ones we have now, instead you sat there, and bought aura items. Also Ahri buffs, Fizz doing this: The champion tagged with Chum the Waters will take 20% increased damage from Fizz for 6 seconds. This excludes Chum the Water's damage, Blitz got a self slow, Darius got this:NEW EFFECT: Noxian Guillotine will refund 25 / 50 / 100 mana on-kill, NEW EFFECT: At maximum rank, Noxian Guillotine's cooldown of is fully reset on kill, Ekko, and a bunch of other stuff that wasn't fun or healthy.
More champions were viable than ever in season 5 and teamfights weren't about what assassin could blow up the ADC first or what ADC was the most fed. Looking at literally all other seasons bar none, season 5 was the healthiest the game had been in ages and will be in ages again.
So if you took all of the balance changes on those heroes and swapped them to season 5's balance, the most you'd have to cry about was vision being piss poor.
Season 5 was the worst season in league of legends history. It was tank meta. The most cancerous time to ever have played. Id rather play the Pre season 7 lethality meta than that autistic tank meta again.
Found the assassin main.
Thats the best part. Im a bruiser player.
That meta was only meh to bruiser players, Riven seeing the absolute worst end of it (ironically to everyone's delight). And I'm completely okay with that.
The tank meta was so fucking boring. It was wet noodle fights. No one did damage. Teamfights lasted 20-30 seconds. It was the worst meta league ever went through. At least in the assassin meta things died. If i got the jump on an assassin i could usually kill them.
Also tanks in S5 were getting to the point they could 1v1 the ADCs. it was just horrible.
EDIT: lets not forget when you said "Make all roles fun and balanced" They werent. Top was significantly stronger than every other role.
I am an Assassin main and I think he has no clue what he is talking about. That meta was Goat.
Season 5:
Tank meta early season with top lane smite. No thanks.
Of course there was Sated Devourer, what fun and interactive gameplay that introduced us to as well; nothing like an infinitely scaling jungle item where you afk farmed jungle for 25 minutes then destroyed everyone.
5.16 Brought the juggernaut update wherein Morde was ruined, Garen got a gimmicky ult that never solved his problems, Skarner had a 65% win rate for a week then was hot fixed and returned to being... well... Skarner... and Darius remained good ol' Darius. Late season was the ADC update and we all remember how well that went. Corki became irrelevant, Caitlyn evolved into one of the only adcs you wanted to play and Kog'Maw was so utterly broken that about a year later he was reverted.
Playing support in Season 5 was horrendous if you weren't a utility tanky support (Thresh, Alistar) or Soraka.
Other than Season 7, Season 5 is the worst that League has had to offer yet.
Wrong, because Season 6 is the worst period.