If we supported, the reward should be a guaranteed primary rather than autofill immunity.

Gosh Darn··21 votes·970 views

Right now queuing support secondary is by far the biggest issue with the new matching system, even worse than autofill, and by addressing this we can indirectly fix autofill.

If someone queues for support and gets it, rewarding them with autofill immunity doesn't make much sense. Autofill would most likely place them back in support anyways. The biggest issue for a very long time now has been that queuing support secondary basically invalidates your primary and you will maybe get your primary 2/10 games, more or less depending on how popular that role is. This causes a lot of people to not queue support at all, even though it might be their favorite or second favorite role. Most of us just don't want to support literally 100% of every game.

If after supporting we were guaranteed our primary for one game, this would at the absolute worse mean we are getting primary 50% of the time and secondary (support/fill) 50% of the time. It would encourage people to queue support secondary, speed up queue times, and give a fair compromise for primary/secondary. It also wouldn't be any less effective than autofill immunity, because that autofill immunity is most likely preventing that person from getting support again anyways.

7 Comments

Final Spark Lux7 votes

Honestly I'd just love it if they'd stop putting me top / mid when I actually DO queue for support as primary. Thanks rito

HazyCloud74 votes

Even better idea: remove autofill from normal draft + blind pick and all ranked queues for people below Diamond.

Drive By Max3 votes

As someone who has been hitting auto fill recently, I get ADC and Jungle more often than I do support.

x Kuro x1 votes

I agree.

I think they should go further, and attempt (with some wiggle room) to manage towards a 66%/33% primary secondary role rate. Then autofill/support could just prevent autofill, and we'd be good.

Mojihito6661 votes

I already told them that, the moment auto fill happened.

Reiyalin1 votes

So much this. I am best at top then support but I hesitate to put support secondary because then I will almost always get it... But the other roles I am nowhere near as comfortable on comparitively. Then the autofill immunity which should be a reward becomes a slap in the face like oh you played support so you are guaranteed... 70%+ chance more support!

Rebonack1 votes

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