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Autofill Increases Queue Times

GeekRekt·6/27/2017, 3:33:37 PM·2 votes·748 views

If I am not mistaken I believe autofill was created to reduce queue times because there are certain roles, such as support which are not as popular and others, ADC and Mid, which a lot of people want to play. However, I don't know about anyone else but I am definitely willing to wait a few more minutes to get the role that I want. Many people prefer a particular roll and despise, or can't play others. With autofill active you can be thrown into a random role you did not choose or a role you aren't strong in and this leads to a lot of dodging in the queue. So while autofill may decrease the initial wait time it takes to find a game, I believe it increases the overall wait time when you factor in players who dodge because they didn't get the roll they wanted. Granted with higher queue times people may get frustrated and dodge if they didn't get their first pick, in which case I think you should increase the time penalty to 10min for queue dodging in draft and maybe even have at 20min for ranked. There will still be the problem of not enough people queuing up in roles like support so have minor rewards such as an IP boost or 50 extra IP each game you play support or fill.

6 Comments

ModKnightsKemplar6/27/2017, 8:40:27 PM2 votes

I wouldn't mind removing it and adding a reward for supp/fill.

It's not an entirely new idea, but I've always liked it. I agree with Quepha that autofill has served it's function, but I'm not necessarily convinced it's the best solution out there.

Quepha6/27/2017, 3:40:54 PM1 votes

If a single autofilled player has ever not dodged a game then the system will have on average reduced queue timers for the entire playerbase. It's literally impossible for autofill to have increased average queue time because it only creates games when there otherwise would have been none at all.

Rockm Sockm6/28/2017, 11:49:42 AM1 votes

Sorry, autofill was only useful above gold.

Que times gold and below were never more than 2m

HermitKOo3/19/2019, 4:23:53 PM1 votes

Dude' stop trying! climbing is only for high elo. Low elo players will only struggle and never climb then troll until get they get banned then make new account for higher placement and repeat. That is what league has been for 10 years and with the positional ranks removed it will be the same for a long time.