support secondary should get sup < 40% of the time

x Kuro x·Nov 4, 2016·4 votes·333 views

Problem: If you put support as your secondary role, you get it 60%+ of the time. So you don't put support as secondary, because it means you get support too often. Therefore, we have even fewer supports in the queue.

For example, I would gladly queue Jungle/Support. However, when I do, I get support 60%+ of the time. So I queue Jungle/Mid instead, because it increases my Jungle role rate.

Solution: Change it so players who put support secondary, get it <40% of the time. This will encourage people to put support secondary, making more supports available.

This could be extended to secondary in-general, by making it so you will only get secondary <40% of the time, period. After all, our primary role is our main role for a reason. We want to play it more often.

3 Comments

BreakuNov 4, 20163 votes

I personally just wish I could set the threshold.

Like if Queue time is expected to be less than 10 minutes, I'll go top lane, if not then I'll support.

x Kuro xNov 4, 20163 votes

That's an interesting idea. So you would set:

primary role
primary role wait limit (aka 3/5/10 minutes)
secondary fallback role

I think one problem with this is that it might adversely affect the queue times of other people.

If someone queues top/sup, it's better to quickly give the sup 40% of the time, rather than having to wait out a 10 minute timer to give them sup.

BreakuNov 4, 20161 votes

Not that I don't agree, but honestly unless they've changed it recently

anything/support gives me support 100% of the time and almost instantly. Even if I used fill as a secondary, it still gives me support 80% of the time with a very low wait.