A Cool Feature to have When choosing your Role

Just another way for the masses to shun support, doesn't really fix anything.

Current system has auto fill in it because a majority of players pick two roles that does NOT include support thus leaving us without enough supports to go around.

Include this system the masses will opt out support giving them 4 potential roles BUT again that does absolutely nothing when the masses are still, say again, opting out of the support role. There is once again not enough supports to go around with this system.

Its a more complicated system that has the same outcome; no one wants to play suport.

They already tried that on OCE, everyone just excluded Support which made queues much much longer and no one liked it in effect. It's a good idea in theory, but in reality it simply doesn't work.

They did a trial of role exclusion on a server a year or so ago. They got overwhelingly negative feedback about it, and scrapped the idea.

It might be okay sometimes in some regions, but Riot did not feel it was a worthwhile system to include.

Most people would use that to go against support, but I would like the feature. I can't play mid well for the life of me.

I would totally queue fill if it meant not getting jungle

What people don't seem to understand is that the ones who don't want support already do not pick support. Giving you the option of "all...but' does not mean that if it comes down to it you can't be autofilled into support if that's all that's left. It just expands your options at no real detriment.

Right now we're already working with a "All except" system, it's just - "All except three unless you get desperate" and what we could have is "All except one unless you get really desperate".

if i could actually exclude jungle i would fill every game.

I would really enjoy fill except adc. While I enjoy mid, jg, and support, and I can tolerate top, I LOATHE playing marksman in any position. So since people flip out if you queue bot and play something other than marksman I play blind mostly and just yell NOT ADC at the beginning of each select.

I agree with this, however autofill might still be a must to avoid people from excluding support every time. This idea has been brought up so many times, but i will always upvote it

I agree with this, i love every role except top and i never fill due to the risk of getting it.

When I auto-fill, I would exclude ADC, not support.

This would be cool.

I'd llove that, I can do fine in any role except adc(unless i'm in the mood for ezreal)

The whole point of autofill is so someone has to play support. The option to do fill except support will just bring things back to the way they were.

They tried this, everybody who went fill was excluding support so it really didnt do anything

I do this so I could exclude mid honestly. I fill often actually and I'm just grateful mid is a popular role. If I hated jungle and filled, what a nightmare that'd be lol

the sea lions give their entire 100% support to this idea rito needs to look into this

We've already had these discussions about any type of role exclusions. It doesn't solve for anything. It only prolongs queue times and has the potential to autofill a player into the role your team needs that's lower ELO if this happens.

Imagine 5 buckets that sort the elements according to role. Top, Jungle, Mid, Bot, Support. Under any type of exclusions, you can sort elements according to at most 4 roles but exclude one bucket completely. That bucket will always have less elements in it and once all of the elements have been matched, the element that's in shortage is always going to become a bottleneck for the entire queue experience.

That means queueing up for longer because the matchmaker is searching for a role that's missing and is still relatively in your ELO/skill level. If it doesn't find anyone for quite some time, its search parameters widen and then people from lower ELOs will get included. Filling a role with a player who's less skilled than your average team ELO is also bad because you're likely to lose from the position that's the weakest link.

You can't skip autofill because the role distribution isn't equal among the roles. Players will naturally gravitate towards their own favorites and will always have the least favorite ones to play as.

I honestly love this idea.

Only one problem that I foresee and is already mentioned is that a lot of people might actually exclude support. Not just support, but any role that's getting the shaft in the patches.

But I believe pro players like Olleh are making Support a more attractive role. So maybe the idea might work now. But always??

But for the enjoyment of the players, this idea would be pleasing. But I actually see queue timers increasing because of my statements above and because you are adding an additional filter to the Fill option. The game now has to limit the games you queue for, increasing queue times.

This has already been attempted before on the PBE and they disliked it then. No offense to the idea but I'm sure they will dislike it again