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Solution for the folks whose secondary role actually is support...

theTyger·2/3/2016, 8:28:40 PM·4 votes·1,186 views

I'm an adc main and I mostly play ranked. After that, support really is my next most comfortable position and by a pretty good margin. Last night, and not for the first time, I got put into the support role 5 times in a row.

When I log in to LoL, I want to play ranked and I want to play adc. I'm perfectly comfortable playing support, but it's not why I log on. So when I get on to game for an evening, and I spend the whole evening not getting my "primary role," I get pretty darned frustrated. Particularly in ranked play where it means I'm not getting to play the role where I feel most able to carry a game.

In terms of overall game health, my concern is that beyond me, many players who may have in the past put "support" or "fill" as their secondary roles are going to quit doing that largely because it definitely feels like you're going to be put into support a disproportionate amount of games. And it becomes a giant feedback loop compounding the problem of getting support even more often for those who are still willing to put it as their secondary role.

What I'd like to see Riot do is put some code in place to ensure that your primary role stays your primary role. ie if you're secondary role gets selected 2-3 times in a row, your primary role is the only role matchmaking considers for the next 4 games.

For the time being, I guess I'm just going to have to put "mid" as my secondary role and hope to god I don't actually get it. Definitely not what I'd call an ideal solution... :-/

13 Comments

RookPusher2/3/2016, 11:18:15 PM3 votes

Support your local TeamBuilder union, man. Honestly, it's absence is making people more salty.

XXxxANCIENTxxXX2/3/2016, 8:35:19 PM2 votes

I have the same issue and I really enjoy that you're addressing this. I mainly play a Bot lane role and I feel forced to put Support as my secondary because it's really the only other role i'm decent at. I would like a way to be prioritized as your primary role or just have the option to only put in one role before queuing.

theTyger2/3/2016, 11:43:33 PM1 votes

Ok, thought of an even better solution while responding to another persons comment. I'm going to copy and paste it here. Rito, please!!! :D

"I'd actually really like to see them bring back the old queue with perhaps a bit of a twist. Go through the same pick order bit, but when it comes time for you to pick a champion, you pick a role first.

So, for example, you go through ban phase. 1st pick comes up, and they pick a role and THEN pick a champ. The next team picks their champs, and then 2nd pick declares a role and then selects a champ. Once 2nd pick has locked their champ in, 3rd pick gets to declare a role and then a champ.

I think a big part of this new system was meant to help do away with people arguing over which role they were going to get during champ select. Taking the above approach would really solidify pick order as the governing factor when it comes to who gets what role. It also prevents people from 5th pick autolocking mid lane when 4th pick has already called mid and 5th pick doesn't want to play support. This in turn, also keeps queue times low. Everybody wins. :) "

Kinjishi2/3/2016, 11:44:52 PM1 votes

"So when I get on to game for an evening, and I spend the whole evening not getting my "primary role," I get pretty darned frustrated. " The only way to get your primary role 100% is to have a 5 man premade where it is agreed that you will be ADC.

Though, TB coming back would be nice too.