Tired of watching bans change to my teams pick intent after someone dodges last pick. Its not proper competition, and undermines the entire purpose of pick/ban. I understand matchmaking times are important but I don't see anyone being against flagging lobbies that were just dodged out of.
Morgan le Fey42 votesYou can totally do this, though. Cancel matchmaking, wait ~20s, and restart it. The option's right there.
Spoofghoul15 votesAlso decreases your chance to be autofilled as an added bonus
IcyPepper2 votescitation plz
Kai Guy1 votesLonger your looking for a game the more likely it is to auto fill you.
IcyPepper1 votesAh
Professor Ward1 votescitation plz
Not true Stated very recently in "ask riot" that dodges and requeues no longer reset autofill chance.
Professor Ward1 votesAlso decreases your chance to be autofilled as an added bonus
not true
Durzaka1 votesThis.
Ive been doing this since Season 2. If Picks/Bans goes to nearly the end before someone dodges, I will always leave queue for 30 seconds or so, so I dont get paired with the same people.
Professor Ward1 votesYou can totally do this, though. Cancel matchmaking, wait ~20s, and restart it. The option's right there.
I already am doing this, and shouldn't have to. The coding is obviously plausible, just seems queue timers are whats getting priority here and riot isn't known for that, theyre known for putting competition first.
Morgan le Fey1 votesExcept... you're the one who wants to do this. Many people would rather not restart matchmaking, especially at higher elo. It doesn't make sense to force everyone to restart just because you want to restart. Some do want to, some don't.
As far as I can tell, you want to restart matchmaking, and so you're restarting matchmaking, and so you're complaining that you shouldn't have to restart matchmaking? I don't understand what the problem is. What am I missing?
Professor Ward1 votesExcept... you're the one who wants to do this. Many people would rather not restart matchmaking, especially at higher elo. It doesn't make sense to force everyone to restart just because you want to restart. Some do want to, some don't.
As far as I can tell, you want to restart matchmaking, and so you're restarting matchmaking, and so you're complaining that you shouldn't have to restart matchmaking? I don't understand what the problem is. What am I missing?
I shouldnt have to restart ANYTHING due to bad matchmaking design. All I'm asking for is to be flagged from facing the same players after being in a lobby with them previously, not that hard, and apparently I'm not the only one seeing as this is one of the hottest topics on the boards. And to answer your question, youre missing reading comprehension skills.
Morgan le Fey1 votesInsulting me is not constructive.
I don't understand how it's bad matchmaking design. Again, not everyone agrees with you! I, for one, don't always mind it. Sometimes I like the team I was with. I don't want to lose a good team and potentially get matched with a bunch of tilty butts because one person on the other side dodged. And if I don't want to get matched with the same team, I have the option not to be. I'd much rather have the choice than be forced to do it your way just because you don't want to press X, wait a few seconds, then press "start queue" again.
Professor Ward1 votesInsulting me is not constructive.
I don't understand how it's bad matchmaking design. Again, not everyone agrees with you! I, for one, don't always mind it. Sometimes I like the team I was with. I don't want to lose a good team and potentially get matched with a bunch of tilty butts because one person on the other side dodged. And if I don't want to get matched with the same team, I have the option not to be. I'd much rather have the choice than be forced to do it your way just because you don't want to press X, wait a few seconds, then press "start queue" again.
ok we will slow down here, and less text so both of us can better communicate.
Explain to me how knowing my enemies pick intent is good matchmaking? And Explain to me why this post has so many upvotes?
Morgan le Fey1 votesok we will slow down here, and less text so both of us can better communicate.
Okay! I'm not great at being concise, but I will try.
Explain to me how knowing my enemies pick intent is good matchmaking?
By itself, it isn't. However, it's not that simple. There are other factors.
And Explain to me why this post has so many upvotes?
It's only 90. While that's a large flat number, it's a very small percentage of the player population. There are many reasons and caveats for this that I can't simplify to a few words without destroying their meaning and losing critical subtleties.
Turning it around, why does my initial response have so many upvotes?
Professor Ward1 votesOkay! I'm not great at being concise, but I will try.
By itself, it isn't. However, it's not that simple. There are other factors.
It's only 90. While that's a large flat number, it's a very small percentage of the player population. There are many reasons and caveats for this that I can't simplify to a few words without destroying their meaning and losing critical subtleties.
Turning it around, why does my initial response have so many upvotes?
I agree wholeheartedly with the first three comments. As for your initial response, read your final comment. :D
And honestly your original post was literally a** re-type of the first four words in my title**. (Hence me being so crybaby about it)
Kinda blew my mind so many people came in here offering a solution I already offered in the first thing they read. Nahmsayin?
Morgan le Fey1 votesThen you answered your question in your own title. Why's there an issue?
Unvictus4 votesYa not to mention the longer you're in queue the higher the chance you'll get autofilled. Probably just better off canceling the queue and waiting 30 seconds and queueing up again. That's what I usually do.
Professor Ward1 votesYa not to mention the longer you're in queue the higher the chance you'll get autofilled. Probably just better off canceling the queue and waiting 30 seconds and queueing up again. That's what I usually do.
Still keep same exact chance of autofill as stated in "ask riot" a few weeks ago.
Soen3 votesIf you feel like this happens too often, then I recommend waiting a bit before entering another match, to the point of declining if you're matched up near instantly again.
Actually, are enemy summoner names shown? I actually can't recall... They should just hide that until the game starts. Hell, why not Allied as well? And just assign names like summoner 1,2,3 etc. Or, alpha, Bravo.
SpecterVonBaren4 votesThey don't show enemy summoner names in champ select specifically to prevent this.
Soen4 votesI see, thank you for the reminder.
But it seems like the problem still occurs, in accordance to what op has said. I wonder if changing allied names to a codename while selecting a champ would be too troublesome.
Itsbeghdev3 votesIt'd not matter because you can still just assume that someone from last game, whoever they were, might be on the enemy team and ban whoever they preffed
Soen2 votesRight, but at least in that case, it's more of a gamble. I guess the best solution for now is to just wait before your next queue.
Sorakas Pantheon1 votesShaclone would love it
nargnargnarg2 votesIt's kind of obviousbif you insta que after someone dodges.
TheMoralSupport1 votesDid someone say alpha 
ADC5LUT2 votesI do that anyway 1 because I don't want them to ban my teams picks and 2 because every dodge increases your chance of getting secondary role/auto filled. :)
420 grams1 votesReminds me of call of duty where you join a game in progress getting spawn killed by tons of kill streaks, so you leave the game but keep getting put back in the same one
Oblivious Denial2 votesOr in Overwatch, getting placed on to the losing side that gets defeated like 1 minute later.
DarkRitual1 votesIf I get backfilled into a 90% lost game, fuck everyone I'm playing Hanzo, as payment for dealing with that crap. (I'm normally a support/tank player)
Morgan le Fey1 votesPersonally, if it's really bad, I just play Mei. :P
That said, I've pulled off some crazy backfill saves + turnarounds. Usually it's on my D.Va, but Ana, Mercy, Lucio, Tracer, Pharah, Zarya, and most hilariously enough Zenyatta (who I think I have less than an hour on total) have all managed to get their moments at one time or another over the last year.
Oblivious Denial1 votesI can see that, esp for a Zenyatta. One well placed ult from him can win a skirmish which could win that match for you.
teegorom1 votesAnd I'd rather not get spammed with friend requests, but Riot's not fixing that in another few years either.