Can someone at riot explain why Bronze and Silver needs autofill?

Say0Intl··15 votes·1,011 views

Seriously why? It's a terrible system. Cause all it takes is 3 games (which includes remakes), and you get autofilled back again. If you're going to keep the system, at least remove remakes counting against autofill protection. PLEASE! Queue times won't change that much either because the vast majority of players are stuck at this elo anyway. Just explain why anyone needs to go through this torture.

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Gelmous3 votes

what's the reason autofill was created ? because nobody wants to play support, why can't riot see this ? just stop nobody wants to support don't force it just don't.

yesnobanana4 votes

"don't force it" 30 mins queue times imcoming.

SweedishGunner1 votes

Were there 30 min queue times for anyonr but chally/master players before autofill?

I would say no. Worst I ever had was 8 mins for a normal game at 3AM.

Beas7ie3 votes

Better than getting dumped into it and dodging, giving you the dodge penalty, and inconveniencing everyone else, or even worse getting matched with a teammate who got auto'ed and is so pissed off that he's now inting in every lane.

But wait! The other team also has an auto'd player who is also pissed and inting down every lane. Now the game is basically a 4v4 with a player from each team trying to int as much as possible!

Gelmous2 votes

never had that issue 15 minutes was maximum for me when we had flex

SenzaRespiro891 votes

Autofil was created because riot lied as they always do. They said they remove flex q if q times become unbearable. But they want to keep flex q and so they gave us autofill in every game mode in every elo.

I bet a lot of people want to support, problem is the only way you cn support is by being the adcs bitch which is a problem from riots game design. I just picked up dota and it surprised me that a hero/champ branded as "support" also has the abilities of "nuker and disabler". So they are leona and snydra at once and still a support. Because support there means someone who can help his team by dmg/utility but doesn't rely on gold income. Ivern has been a step into the right direction imo. Once we can take supps into the toplane or jungle more frequently people will play more support. But the entire lol community is mentally bound to the "support=warding, shielding, healing-bitch" when support could also be "high damage threat with low gold incomes". Exactly what zyra for example did in the support role or brand WHICH IS GREAT. So ican take a tank top and jungle without worrying about our damage once it gets to mid/lategame. But people bitched about it because "supports shouldn't deal damage hurr durr" and riot nerfed them. It's a problem riot created when they made this game and it translated so hard into the community that if something new comes people bitch about it and riot is forced to nerf it.

SpookyNeedle2 votes

Lack of supports in that elo compared to other roles. It's all relative.

Rockm Sockm5 votes

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Lack of supports in that elo compared to other roles. It's all relative.

No. Que times gold and below have increased due to autofill.

Que times were on a problem for the select group riot cares about.

Ashen Rider4 votes

That doesn't make sense.

TheSingularity1 votes

Second part agreed, first part not so much

PrinceOfStorms4 votes

Queue times were only a problem in high ELO where there isn't a large player pool to begin with. In gold and below people are more likely to dodge because of a role they don't like.

Ashen Rider1 votes

I honestly haven't seen that happen, but that's probably because I play exclusively normals.

TheSingularity3 votes

There are plenty of supports in low elo. I get autofilled mid/adc far more than support

Lauchmelder2 votes

I haven't been autofilled in upwards of 20 games. And I queue mid/top. Let's stop pretending that it's such a big problem.

SenzaRespiro891 votes

That's really good for you, i got autofilled three times in a row yesterday and that's only low dia. 2 times adc, once jungle. Every game got dodged by either me or the enemy. Then i got autofilled as support and dodged again. Wasted 13 lp this day and 40 mins penalty because i don't want to autolose.

Lauchmelder1 votes

I can understand this in diamond+

But people complain about it in bronze and silver. I could play Gnar support and I could win, that's how bad players in my elo tend to be.

PePsiLemoNN1 votes

Haven't been autofilled in forever so can people stop making this kind of threads after they get autofilled once and lose?

DenisV1 votes

Sorry we forgot the world revolves arround you mate

Tobias Brackner1 votes

Autofill is fine. I have no idea why people are being such babies about this. If you play Ranked then you should be competent at every lane. If you play Unranked then just pick whatever champ you were going to play anyway and grab Sightstone and Gold Income if you happen to be supp.

If people complain then tell them to play Ranked if they care so much about winning and mute them.

SenzaRespiro892 votes

You don't get it do you? But then again you are just a boards troll trying to be the devils advocate in every single thread. I guess some edgy 12yo. There is a difference between the old system where you pretty frequently played every role constantly swapping or now where you get to a rank playing one or two roles exclusivley and suddenly you get autofilled to supp/adc/w/e after 30 games of playing one role. It#s just an autoloss and even more so it fucks up your own games. It happens frequently you get into a game with three jungle mains filled into mid, supp and adc role. Which guarantees you to lose the game.

Dynamia1 votes

People who don't want to play support roles have severe psychological narcissistic tendancies. Usually need professional help.

Like a kick to the face.

Ralanr1 votes

Because you should at least know how to do every role when climbing.

Sun Wu Ryuumoku1 votes

Its to prepare u when u'll climb. a good player need to know how to play all role and how they work.

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