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What is fair about autofill in ranked games?

Sickskillz·1/14/2017, 10:48:30 PM·7 votes·1,552 views

I was genuinely surprised last season when Riot attacked the ranked integrity by removing solo queue. It became quite dumb for a while and people were angry. I didn't think Riot could one up themselves after this, but they are able to prove me wrong with the new ranked system. Forced autofill in ranked. We got rito'd again.

So I put up a troll post to riot about a certain game where 2 of us were rito'd by riot and put in autofill.

http://i.imgur.com/WnwYcaq.png

Decided to send a troll tweet, thinking they wouldn't really try to tackle this issue. Then they responded with something that changed my interest from a troll post to now genuinely curious.

http://i.imgur.com/guUI4la.png

It's not unfair? I can only think of 3 scenarios in which this is not unfair.

1.) Does the matchmaking system check to see how many players are rito'd? If we had 2 rito'd players, is it checking to make sure the other team has 2 rito'd players as well? And even if it's 2v2 rito'd players. Are they themselves equal? If team A has a rito'd player that is absolute garbage at the other 3 roles while team B's rito'd players are decent jack of all trades, is that fair?

2.) Does the rito'd team get more LP per wins or lose less LP per losses for being rito'd? And even if that's the case, that means I'm most likely losing cause my team's rito'd and have to sit through 20 minutes for a net worth of losing lp, big or small. I have to sit through it.

Or 3 and what I likely believe more) They just blew me off cause they had no answer.

Hoping a red / riot member can help clarify this for me. Or if any other players know what steps they took to make autofill in ranked stay competitive that I may have missed.

9 Comments

Kilanost1/14/2017, 10:59:52 PM3 votes

Also when balancing team mmr, the algorithm does not take into account if the highest elo player on your team got auto-fucked to support. That means that at every single carry role, the other team will be at a relative skill advantage based on elo. This becomes more pronounced the higher the elo relative to the rest of the team of the person who got auto-fucked.

I see this one a lot and its the most infuriating. During champ select we should at least be able to see the rank of the people we're playing with so if the Gold 5 mid laner gets autofilled, he might be able to talk the Silver 5 person at mid who took mid as his secondary role into switching roles to give the team a better chance of winning.

OldandConfused1/15/2017, 5:26:42 PM2 votes

As a support main what makes me sad is I feel this is the solution to the problem that their just aren't enough support players. The ideal solution would be to make support more fun and impactful so that more people want to play it.

I guess riot doesn't feel that is possible.

rtbf2216514121/14/2017, 11:54:16 PM1 votes

Idk, I think Riot trolled ranked harder than this post.

I don't even see how this game can be considered 'competitive' anymore with all the screw ups.

Danjeng1/15/2017, 4:05:41 AM1 votes

There was a small time of peace, one where solo/duo queue was given back, but before autofill was a thing. What a sweet time. I swear, if Riot is going to remove autofill, they are going to pull off something even more outrageous.