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Learn to play the other roles. Stop whining. Role Selection can't reasonably exist without autofill.

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Everyone should learn to play support when starting out in league. It offers a variety of champions that serve different roles - ranging from mages (hello midlaners), tanks - both aggressive and defensive (hi toplaners and junglers), and healers/shielders. It teaches the value of knowing matchups, watching the map to spot enemy rotations, working with teammates, etc. If you can't play support at a passable level and you are not diamond+, you probably can't play any role well at your rank. Not saying support is easy - it's actually more challenging than many other roles can be. But having the mechanics to play a toplane bruiser or tank, having the mechanics to play a mage or assassin mid, or having the positioning skills and knowledge to play an adc means you have many useful skills to translate to champs with similar playstyles in the support role and vice versa.

I started ranked in season 3 and I sucked. People "flamed" me often and kept yelling at me. Today 1/4 of these people would be chat restricted or worse for how they talked, but most did it to help me stop making simple stupid mistakes over and OVER and over again. I listened to them - even when they weren't the nicest about it, mostly got stuck playing support even though I wanted to play mid and other roles, and learned. I got to know my matchups, learned to carry a sub-par adc to win lane. Even had a few games where I'd 2v5 carry with only one decent teammate. And you know what? I got better at the other roles because I played support. Spotting ganks, teamfight initiation, positioning, farming, dueling; I got better at these BECAUSE I played support. Too many people these days think they know everything when they know almost nothing at all. They miss chances to gank the proper lane for easy early snowballs. They gank when they need to farm. They take ignite instead of tp or vice versa and lose lane - made all the worse because of their poor play and poor choice of summoner spell. They cry "toxic" if people tell them anything other than "gj". Instead of listening and maybe learning to be a better player. They think they made some amazing play when they 4v2 force a tower kill bot - not realizing they only got the 4v2 because their toplaner pulled 3 people top to stop him splitpushing - and lived - and still had pressure topside. Playing support SHOULD be teaching players to better respect the contributions of their team members and the SACRIFICES of their team members. It should be a requirement for every player new to ranked - not something people can pay extra money to avoid.