Role Selection Shenanigans

RenownedWheat42··2 votes·267 views

Last night I queued up with three friends and we went into a normal draft. I went for Top and Jungle, one friend went Jungle and Top, second friend was ADC Fill, last was Supp Fill.

I got Jungle. First friend got Top. Second friend got Supp. Third friend got Mid. Random got ADC, and said he queued for Mid and Fill.

How does THAT happen?

6 Comments

EbonyBladeJ882 votes

I've been trying to go Supp and JG recently, and have been getting Top almost consistently.

It's not really a problem, because Top is one of my main roles, but sometimes you want to switch it up, yet I can't seem to get anything BUT Top.

Then there are the times when I go Top (Primary) and JG (Secondary) and get stuck in Mid.

We all could probably fill pages with times that Auto-fill has sent us to a role that is the Furthest-thing-possible from what we queued up for. Those are just some of MY instances of it screwing me around.

RenownedWheat421 votes

Autofill sounds like a dick. I'm just curious as to why, in my case, no one got their primary even though all five people put a different one.

EbonyBladeJ881 votes

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Autofill IS a dick.

FTFY.

Because Autofill LOVES to screw around with players.

Autofill says: Oh, you queued up for JG (Primary) and Mid (Secondary) and are a terrible Top-laner? Well, let's make you be Top and give you "teammates" that are completely UNWILLING to trade roles with you. (If you're curious, this happened to a friend of mine, not me)

Autofill says: Oh, you queued up Mid (Primary) and Bot/ADC (Secondary)? Too bad, so sad, you're the JG! (Another friend who fell victim to Autofill in a less-than positive manner)

I like Draft Mode, I really do. It made the Champ Select process far less of a nightmare that Blind Pick can sometimes be. But when Autofill came along, I've been... less than satisfied with it.

But, we just have to roll up our sleeves and https://media.giphy.com/media/zux4k4hAIdS8w/giphy.gif because we don't really have a choice in the matter.

Dolasaur1 votes

It's not because of autofill. This has happened since they first introduced role queuing- where the top/jun gets jungle and jun/top gets top.

It is broken, and Riot should do a second pass on role selection after the team is decided. But it's not autofill's fault.

Dethflash1 votes

Yup ive seen that crap happen several times now, and its all because of the autofillsystem they have, it will override what roles you have selected and just give everyone something random.

here is a link explaining how autofill is anti-productive to the queue time, champion select, and game health https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/WvAG1J5E-why-autofill-is-a-bad-system

Dolasaur1 votes
<repost from other reply>

It's not because of autofill. This has happened since they first introduced role queuing- where the top/jun gets jungle and jun/top gets top.

It is broken, and Riot should do a second pass on role selection after the team is decided. But it's not autofill's fault.

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