Autofill is still stupid

Håppy··2 votes·1,279 views

And is still causing losses based off not knowing how to play the role you randomly get put in to instead of causing losses based off of someone else being better than you. Still demands you buy more rune pages to make a generic page for every role instead of having specialized pages for the champions you know. Still cancer.

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Maximum Morde1 votes

It's still better than season 5. Try coming up with ideas to solve the problem instead of just whining.

Håppy1 votes

Season 6 worked fine. Like, absolutely fine. There was a fill option for people who didn't care, and there was a primary and secondary role for those who did. You put the role you wanted most as primary, and your fallback as your secondary. Season 7, you have two roles that don't take priority over one another, and then autofill takes priority over both of them, so you really shouldn't even be picking any roles, just queueing up for autofill with this system.

Ideas and solutions to autofill have been given ever since the preseason started, and were full on ignored. So now it's just reminding Riot that this system is a cancer and makes people miserable.

Kitty Cat Tosha1 votes

Last season when I queued as mid/support, I would end up with support 99% of the time. Now it's 40. I am perfectly fine with autofill.

Håppy1 votes

Queueing the most contested role with the least contested will always get you the least contested, no surprise there. But there's Fill for a reason. This autofill actually makes no sense - You can flex queue 5-man and all pick your roles, and autofill will mix you all up anyways. It's a stupid system that doesn't work except for "shortening queue times". But if you're playing ranked, you want to get the roles you're good at, wait times be damned!

Bronze Bonanza1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Happy Lolis,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=g6zlNATt,comment-id=0000000000000000,timestamp=2017-01-30T14:05:29.247+0000)

Queueing the most contested role with the least contested will always get you the least contested, no surprise there. But there's Fill for a reason. This autofill actually makes no sense - You can flex queue 5-man and all pick your roles, and autofill will mix you all up anyways. It's a stupid system that doesn't work except for "shortening queue times". But if you're playing ranked, you want to get the roles you're good at, wait times be damned!

Sorry but 30 minute wait times for a game that lasts even less than that are unacceptable.

StoCoBoLo1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Happy Lolis,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=g6zlNATt,comment-id=0000000000000000,timestamp=2017-01-30T14:05:29.247+0000)

Queueing the most contested role with the least contested will always get you the least contested, no surprise there. But there's Fill for a reason. This autofill actually makes no sense - You can flex queue 5-man and all pick your roles, and autofill will mix you all up anyways. It's a stupid system that doesn't work except for "shortening queue times". But if you're playing ranked, you want to get the roles you're good at, wait times be damned!

We should go back to season 1-4 where there was no role selection and you have to beg to not get support and not be held hostage for taking someone's role from them even though you were 1p and they were 5p?! In general everyone is having a much better time now than before, you're the minority.

Håppy1 votes

Or... go back to how the queue worked in season 6? Instead of going to the extreme and picking one that everyone agrees didn't work, season 6 was fine.

Quepha1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Happy Lolis,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=g6zlNATt,comment-id=00000000,timestamp=2017-01-30T13:20:27.210+0000)

There was a fill option for people who wanted support.

fix'd

Håppy1 votes

And that's no different with Autofill, except last season you have a choice.

Quepha1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Happy Lolis,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=g6zlNATt,comment-id=0000000000010000,timestamp=2017-01-31T09:56:25.167+0000)

And that's no different with Autofill, except last season you have a choice.

You are lying. People get autofilled to every position and 'fill' now actually ends up placing people in a lot of different positions instead of just 'support' more than 90% of the time, yet people will still end up playing one of their main positions most of the time while queue times are kept low.

Bronze Bonanza1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Maximum Morde,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=g6zlNATt,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-01-30T12:17:24.483+0000)

It's still better than season 5. Try coming up with ideas to solve the problem instead of just whining.

Season 5 was better than season 6.

Season 5 was better than season 7.

Back then people would actually work together to fill out the team comp. Not every game sure, some games you would have to work with them, but enough for you to get your role the majority (>50%) of the time if you mained something.

Maximum Morde2 votes

Mid or feed/disco Nunu didn't become memes for no reasons.

SoundChaosDebug1 votes

Free to play not forced to play, feel free to force your way out the front door.

Håppy1 votes

"haha dont like it? leave xd" That's not how you run a business.

SoundChaosDebug1 votes

You can't please everyone.

DrCyanide1 votes

It depends. If your business can't sustain selling $0.50 hamburgers then you've got to change, regardless of if your customers don't like it.

The new champion select drastically chunked out the people willing to put "fill" or "support" as a backup role. If you go into Blind Pick you'll still see people who will go Support as their second role, but that population has all but disappeared from Draft. To sustain the business, the call was made to make a mandatory fill kick in.

vOmvbrawfU1 votes

LOL

Quepha1 votes

Not knowing how to play a lane somehow doesn't mean you're a worse player?

Wolftastic331 votes

Oh boy, it's almost as if there's nothing you can do about it. Oh wait, it's called learning all roles. Sure, you don't have to be a god on the role, but you should learn to be good enough to not lose the game for your team on your own.

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