Stop complaining about Autofill!

Nidken··6 votes·575 views

We need autofill to support both Solo/Duo and Flex Queue.

Queue times would increase not by 2-3 minutes. They would increase by 20-30 minutes. After diamond I would expect a minimum 30 minute wait for a game.

If you want to test how long it takes to find a non-autofill game in your region+elo, simply reset your queue timer after it passes around 2 minutes. This will guarentee that your placed in one of your selected roles and that you avoid being autofilled. In plat 2 oce, my wait ranges from 4 minutes all the way to 40 minutes, averaging around 20 minutes (you can math how many times that means restarting the queue search).

The Boards may claim that "majority of people prefer longer queue times for game quality" but this is a difficult presumption. There can be as many (if not more) people that prefer the shorter queues, only these voices would not be heard untill autofill was hypothetically removed and queue times increased.

What players should be complaining about is the boards inability to play multiple roles. Understanding how to play all roles well makes you a better player not just because you win more autofill games, but because it makes you better in your primary role.

Before s6 all ranked games were autofilled via pick order. We should all learn to play at least 1 champion in each role to better the quality of matches. This would result in less dodges, less tilting, and most importantly, less shitty supports.

6 Comments

The 14th Angel3 votes

i bet your the kinda person that cries when he gets autofilled.

KraDEsluP2822 votes

The problem with autofill is that games are decided by people being autofilled into position, for example a duo bot vs a solo marksman and an autofilled support who has no idea what they're doing, it just doesn't mix and then the game gets decided early on.

edit: it all comes down to which team gets fucked the least by autofill, not the queue timers.

MasterChief1071 votes

This is exactly what I think. You only need to know at least 1 or maybe 2 champs per lane and your ready to go. I main support so my queue times are usually shorter any way. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Dabrick011 votes

The funny part is that when people get a role they don't want and they dodge. That makes que times longer anyway. We complain about it because of the little shits this community are. Until I get to higher elo, anyone who gets auto filled will just feed if they don't get what they want.

Dark Nephthys1 votes

While it's true that everyone should know and understand how to play every role and have at least 1-2 champions in each role but everyone has their 2 roles that they feel much more comfortable and confident in enough to play it in ranked. Autofill just forces you to play roles that you aren't as confident in and what happens if some one gets autofilled to top lane when they rarely play top lane but then face the dude that plays nothing but top lane? Also what about people who are trying to be OTPs, which they can't be anymore because they won't always get that role.

Also about the time, Now if they Autofilled me because it was taking way to long (like the 20+ mins you were referring to) then that is one thing. However, Autofill has been hitting me way way to soon. I was autofilled after just a 2 mins 30 second Que time, when my "estimated que time" was 3 mins...If autofill was to wait until it reaches past at least 10+ mins then I wouldn't be as annoyed by it but getting hit by it just after a few mins when it's not even past their estimated time is just stupid.

SeaGodUrronuos1 votes

Well then get rid of it for low elos it prevents us from climbing

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