Autofill in Ranked

iLymerick·Dec 10, 2016·1 votes·1,953 views

This is more of a preparation post. I'm finishing my ranked solo/duo placements as this post goes up, so I will be updating this based on where I get placed.

Update I can easily say that Riot's current policy with ranked, more so the autofill, "lower placement than the previous season", etc., has caused me to lose my interest in ranked play. I could list out several solutions to promote players interest to play ranked and climb the ladder. It's also very damaging to players whom end up getting placed in a low elo and have friends or other players in the community tease them about being in that low elo. I have first hand experience in this, and even after trying to explain to people that some are still new to the game and haven't found there flow, this still occurs. I started playing league back in November 2015 and I started playing ranked in January 2016. I got placed bronze 3 and began attempting to climb the ladder. I dropped down to bronze 5 within 10-15 games after my placements, so I lost interest in playing ranked because of the consistent decrease in elo. I continued to avoid ranked play until September/October 2016, where I managed to climb to bronze 3. When I saw that Riot were only going to allow players to be placed lower than where they finished, that pretty much topped off the loss of interest in ranked for me. I am willing to give ranked another go for the next year. However, if I can't at least make it out of bronze in this season, I will cease to play ranked, and will either strictly play normals, or find another game to play, which I really hope doesn't happen.

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3 Comments

SGT Dingle BerryDec 10, 20161 votes

You shouldn't get auto filled more than twice which leaves you with 8 games to show off your l33tn3ss, then again I'm sure you already have the "but muh teammates" excuse ready to fire off.

ValyrianBladeDec 10, 20161 votes

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You shouldn't get auto filled more than twice which leaves you with 8 games to show off your l33tn3ss, then again I'm sure you already have the "but muh teammates" excuse ready to fire off.

You could go: Auto, 2 protected, auto, 2 protected, auto, 2 protected, auto. That's 4 autofills in 10 game. I was autofilled bot in my first placement (was put with a trio in top/mid/jg - don't get why the trio all gets their rolls and the solo is filled, also enemy team had a duo top/mid who role swapped eachother and other three trio - again the duo could have been filled over the solo...). I was auto filled bot the immediate game before that too (but was a normal Draft, was testing if protection carried across queues and apparently it doesn't ).

At the current rate, I'd guess 3-4 autofills is more likely than 2.

Although I've been pretty lucky with allies taking my role when i'm filled.

iLymerickDec 10, 20161 votes

Autofill hasn't gotten me too many times in my placements. It autofilled me twice out of the ten games, but I really can blame the teammates. I think 8/10 of the games I played had my teammates picking out-of-nowhere supports like Adellaide Sky did, or picking champs they had little to no skill or experience with, and willingly tell the rest of the team that they are not familiar with said champion(s).