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The real reason why league is unbalanced.

Famous Gay Actor·12/17/2019, 9:41:39 PM·1 votes·1,088 views

Ok guys, let's be honest. The jungle changes are not the reason why Ranked is miserable. The reworks and new releases are not the reason why Ranked is miserable. The real reason why ranked is miserable is one thing: Autofill. We've all been at its mercy and no one enjoys it when they have to be "that guy" playing a role they don't understand enough about to play competently and probably being the reason their team loses the game.

I remember playing League when Autofill wasn't a thing. Some of you may remember when choosing your roles was new to Ranked Draft and how much it reduced toxicity - especially when you didn't have to fight over roles. The client would even tell you "Hey, a lot of people are queueing mid. You might have to wait 50% longer to get that role. HOWEVER... if you wanted to queue up for Support, you'll see a 50% reduction in your wait time." I loved that. On the days where I wanted to play a bunch of games, I'd say "sure, I'll queue up Support." I understood enough at the time to play a decent Support and I never got flamed for it because... well, it was understood, I signed up for the job. On the days when I really wanted to play mid, I just put up with the longer times. Fewer games but higher quality because you had people who REALLY understood their roles and their jobs. And then... we got Autofill.

At first I thought it was alright. I mean, how bad could it be if you just had one game out of maybe 10-15 where you were autofilled. The answer: it's bad. Really, really bad. You get that one guy who is absolutely clueless about his role but is afraid to admit it. Then you get 15-20 mins into the game and he tells you in chat "well I was autofilled". REALLY! NOW YOU TELL US WHEN WE CAN'T DO A THING ABOUT IT?!?! It's so incredibly frustrating when you get these people in your games. I'm not blaming them for this, Riot. I'm blaming you. Sure you can boast that queue times are 1:40 - 3:40, but how high quality are the games? Not even!

TL;DR I would rather wait 5-10 mins per game and have a higher quality experience than wait 1-3 minutes and roll the dice on the odds that another one of my teammates or I am autofilled.

9 Comments

Drezden12/17/2019, 9:48:57 PM5 votes

I mean to be honest....back in technically the seasons everyone loved of league, EVERYONE was autofilled, and you just had to ASK for your role, hoping you were "first pick" in the que. Remember, the choosing role before que didn't come til season 5 or so, so I at least appreciate them including that :)

And if you do get autofilled, you can try to ask for your role and see if the other person will trade. They tried to do role rankings at the beginning of S9 but that fell through.

Also gotta understand people will "say" they were autofilled as an excuse, but technically everyone should know how to play every role to some certain extent. Support isn't even the role people don't want anymore haha. I've had friends autofilled OUT of support into something else :P.

But rank I do think should be a determination of your overall league skill while having a primary role, vs just people being good at one thing and one thing only ya know? Just my opinion.

The thigh guy12/17/2019, 11:06:01 PM2 votes

Auto fill became a problem when riot decided to kill roles for a few patches.

At first it was just a support issue. Like it is in almost every game. Look at wow and ff14 for example. Healers are a dying breed.

Then riot killed adcs with the crit gutting (the god has left us patch). So now it’s 2 roles that are unplayable. Which they fixed.

And now the current state. So now no one wants to play jungle, so now auto fill is filling people into jungle and support.

KlydeFrog12/18/2019, 2:07:00 AM1 votes

Auto fill doesn't matter to me all I do is pick auto fill however what people fail to realize or do is to pick a champ they can use . Like if your supp all the time and you play Leo nonstop then you get top......go play leo she can and does toss people around