PSA - If you haven't heard yet, putting mid as your secondary...

ArithianFlame·1/18/2016, 9:36:42 PM·50 votes·12,818 views

Pretty much guarantees you get your primary role. If you want to duo bot, have whoever is playing adc select mid as secondary, while the support picks adc as his secondary. You will get your duo bot 90%+ of the time.

Mid>Top>Adc>Jungle>Support>Fill === Order of popularity. Choosing something more popular than your primary as your secondary pretty much guarantees you the role you want. Mid laners have the least likely chance of receiving their role.

Ex: If you want to play a duo with mid and jungle, your best bet is to have the midlaner choose top as his secondary, while the jungler chooses mid.

If Riot is going to insist to push these changes regardless of whether or not they were wanted, than they shouldn't be surprised when players find ways around it.

EDIT: As others point out there is an element of luck. You are one of thousands in queue. This is just a way to put the odds greatly in your favor.

EDIT 2: NO. Having a ADC/SUP SUP/ADC combo doesn't work. Your duo has to have a minimum of three different roles or you can't leave the lobby.

69 Comments

Canidae1/19/2016, 6:27:02 AM9 votes

No joke the first time I did this, I went Support/Mid and got mid. Go figure.

La Barbotte1/19/2016, 10:48:39 AM7 votes

mid is the most desired role because its the least boring and frustrating lane, most champions are fun to play as and against (i say most cause some are pains in the ass) and you can have easy impact on the game while bot lane you are stuck with someone else that you dont comunicate alot with (solo queue perspective) and either he can screw up, you can, the ennemy support can be better than yours, or adc, while top lane is the thrash can of league where every single champion can end up there so you end up vs mages, tanks, assassins, bruisers and even sometimes adc's and supports (ex vayne top, taric/nautilus etc) and jungle you get the most flame out of any position as well has having to deal with all three lanes + the ennemy jungler without a direct opponent to deal with because of lack of vision (thanks season six)

stealthfox941/19/2016, 2:11:43 AM5 votes

Mid has been the most desirable role for as long as I can remember.

Sohleks1/18/2016, 11:26:16 PM5 votes

Ahahah. And the funny thing is. This'll only exacerbate queue time problems across the system. Pretty much bypassing the reason we have 2 role picks. Just like that the queue functions like a single role select system which'll never work. The number of games is entirely gated by the # of people willing to select the least popular role/fill.

There has to be changes if this is gonna be long term.

Dominick Destine1/18/2016, 11:32:05 PM3 votes

That's what I've been doing.

I used to be Jungle/Support, but I would get support 9 times out of 10. So now I am Jungle/Mid and I get jungle like 7 times out of 10 and the other 3 are mid , which is a reasonable ratio.

Sachabot1/18/2016, 11:15:52 PM3 votes

Really? Because I get it more than my primary (Top).

Athenes Lulu1/19/2016, 3:06:15 AM2 votes

I primary support and secondary mid.

Got mid once, and fed so hard because enemy mid is D3 (who also mains mid) while I play mid like a bronze 5.

I think I would rather go jungle secondary...

zacktootall1/19/2016, 7:35:43 AM2 votes

wrong every fist game that was canceled was my primary role (but again canceled) every game after that iv been put in mid so sry love the theory but wrong

Surr20plz1/19/2016, 8:38:18 AM2 votes

This DOES NOT WORK!

You will end up getting mid a lot.

Br4ndon1/19/2016, 9:46:30 AM2 votes

I think the new system should allow a duo to take the same roles. It would help keep adc/support duos stay together. I don't think it would slow down que times since 80% of the time duo bots get their prim roles anyway.

hi im minty1/19/2016, 10:28:29 AM2 votes

Not true... I wanted support so I picked supp/mid and got mid. Then I tried it again and got the same result.

Nyxceris1/19/2016, 1:47:55 PM2 votes

I queue in as jg/fill and literally 30% I'm put mid [zombie-brand-clap]

Truly Prideful1/18/2016, 9:42:43 PM2 votes

Not entirely true. I got mid every game except the one game we had a 5-man last night. It's entirely luck based.

weeaboomer1/18/2016, 9:55:32 PM2 votes

Then why not just have your duo go bot/support and the same with you. You can still trade.

doiminat0r36001/18/2016, 11:48:47 PM2 votes

I found it funny when I qued in the first time and put primary support and secondary fill. I got mid. I didn't feed mind you but I didn't do as good as I could have.

Streeton1/19/2016, 12:04:27 AM2 votes

dats odd, everytime i pick mid on anything, i always get it.

DunkinNoobs1/19/2016, 2:36:09 AM2 votes

Funny, I just did this and got mid. Weird system.

NapaIm1/19/2016, 3:05:21 AM2 votes

Just put mid as secondary, and I got it RIP.

lildyo1/19/2016, 5:43:38 PM2 votes

I figured this out on my own to get ADC, jungle, or support like 80%+ of the time whenever I put mid as my secondary role :)

NegusInParis1/20/2016, 6:52:32 AM1 votes

What's an Adc? Sounds like a mix of meele ad and ranged ad

Winters Dawn1/19/2016, 8:47:44 PM1 votes

i put mid as my secondary alllll the time and I get mid maybe 40% of the time. it's not guaranteed

Supreme Senpai691/20/2016, 12:37:07 AM1 votes

Not true. I go support/mid and get mid over 90% of my games.

A Liberal1/20/2016, 12:44:59 AM1 votes

I would like to argue that Top isn't the 2nd highest pick. I mainly pick fill and recently I have been playing a lot of toplane and ADC, with some support thrown in. From MY Experiences (Silver 5 elo), It seems to be mid>jungle>adc>support>top.

Meanie401/20/2016, 1:55:11 AM1 votes

False.

I have Support/Mid for the last 5 times. I got Mid twice.

AarkAngel1/20/2016, 2:12:12 AM1 votes

I got mid once out of all my queues with this new system. Then somebody dodged because they didnt get mid.

So ive played exactly never since this new system was implemented. Id really prefer to NOT have to give up on my Anivia Mid main because of these changes.

Jodpk1/20/2016, 3:06:53 AM1 votes

I don't think this works any more, I've got mid like 4 times today and adc 5 times. (adc is primary)

OneSmoothDude1/19/2016, 5:34:48 PM1 votes

Do you have any evidence?