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Question on Autofill in Ranked

Sickskillz·3/20/2017, 6:24:02 PM·2 votes·1,415 views

When is Riot removing autofill in ranked? They fucked up royally last season by implementing dynamic queue in "Solo Queue" last season. Now, I feel like someone in the office was put up to a bet to see if they can somehow top last season's fuck up.

Autofill is the WORST thing I've seen in ranked. Keep that garbage in normals. Difference with ranked and normals is that ranked is suppose to be competitive. How the fuck is rngesus competitive while the other team gets their preferred and EXPERIENCED roles?

So far, all 3 scenarios have come up in what is supposedly suppose to be a competitive environment. I've either been forced to dodge because I got riot'd with that garbage autofill in ranked, I've been forced to play with someone who has no clue how to play mid or support and feeds because Riot forced him to feed and bring the red cross over to the enemy team, or I've been in a hostage situation where someone gets autofilled and troll picks unless he gets his role or forces someone else to dodge. And if no one dodges, we getpunished. We shouldn't get punished or even dodge and take the penalty so another inbred can get away for free.

Take out autofill from ranked at the very least. Keep it in norms at least, but keep ranked competitive. Else, you might as well make a ranked section for ARAM. Can I get a red to try and explain to me why even KEEP autofill in ranked after months of garbage? Queue times are not worth it for a competitive scene. Either get rid of ranked, or remove role selection and keep it randomized for both teams like the early seasons, first pick order.

8 Comments

Sinserta3/20/2017, 6:27:39 PM1 votes

I mean, if you're like me, you're smart enough to learn every role before going into ranked for the chance that you'll get autofilled. Sure, I'm best at top/jg, but, since I've played the other roles enough, I'm more than able to handle myself in those situations. If someone on your team cries? Offer to switch, be a bigger person. It's not hard to manage.

LEEROY KLEDKINS3/20/2017, 6:32:55 PM1 votes

They did fuck this up for me and the rest of the support mains few months ago but they seemed to have fixed that since recently in ranked and flex my win rate has increased with autofill been fixed for support pickers.

I can play other roles but in ranked im way better as a team player support than a carry.

Sadly when autofill messed up season 7 I've been less interested in ranked ever compared to the previous seasons way to many players threatening to take a match hostage that it still scars me.

Just the thought of me trying to go back to ranked sometimes just makes me fear that one guy is gonna be beyond help and just drag the whole team down I've even seen this happen to enemy teams :(. I know this happened in previous seasons but this one the player's ranked behaviour is much worse.

GankedByWindows3/20/2017, 7:22:58 PM1 votes

Nobody likes autofill. However, it is a necessary evil to avoid the 15-20 minute queue times when the new champion select was released without autofill. People saying they get 15-20 minutes now because of autofill are exaggerating. At very worst it gets to 10 with it, if anyone dodges at all. 15-20 minutes was the norm though without autofill and god forbid someone dodge after you finally get into draft because the game decided someone had to be autofilled after 20 minutes.