Premades, autofill, and everything that triggers.

GP or Mutiny·4/26/2017, 3:49:26 AM·1 votes·252 views

So a concept that has been on my mind the last few weeks of dealing with the same scenario: Sit down to play league, generally 1 normal game to warm up then straight to ranked. Get into first game, get tilted beyond oblivion, why you ask? premade teams and autofill (yes i'm that guy) I understand the aspect of playing with a group of friends to relax, but generally i want to play on a competitive level, Taking competitiveness, and the games of my soon to be teammates into consideration I get my first game (worst game) in on a round of Draft, because i don't want to feed and make my team upset. It works like a charm most of the time.

But here recently i have been getting into normal games with full premade groups on both my team, and the enemy team. I have played 2 games, in 2 days (no ranked at all) The reasoning behind this is playing with a premade team tilts me, and they can do it more ways than one. so allow me to explain the rules of a premade team.

Rule #1: Nothing is your fault. When playing as a premade group of 3 or 4 of your friends, when your team is doing bad, it is all the "Randoms" faults, This of course being whoever is not grouped with you.

Rule #2: randoms don't exist When playing as a premade group of 3 or 4 of your friends, You will never participate in helping the players that or not in your group. The reasoning behind this is "my team can carry, he probably cant"

Rule #3: Do not fear the fire When you are in a premade group of 3 or 4 of your friends, You can flame the "randoms" as much as you like, they cannot retaliate without fear of multiple reports at the end of the game.

Rule #4 Camping trip! When you are playing in a premade group in general, your communication is better than the randoms solo players that were forced to play with you, So to capitalize on this, first figure out who is a decent player early on, then second, 5 man gank them at 4 minutes, then 3 man gank them at 6. continue in 2 minute intervals because fuck it, why not?

Rule #5 NEVER COMMUNICATE WITH RANDOMS When playing as a premade group of 3 or 4 of your friends, you will have a "random" player that means nothing in this game. He is most likely a bad player, so just ignore your chat, and focus on what your friends are doing. It's really a win-win situation, if he wins lane your team will do better but fear not, because if he loses lane, you get to bully him!

Now, as a competitive player, that was around for solo queue, i would wish to stay in that type of mind set. The environment of being with friends makes it more relaxed and means i don't really have to try, in other words i get lazy. Since i don't want to be lazy and actually try to improve my game play, i want to get into games where i can communicate with my team with the system provided for us and use the limited resources to our advantage to overcome adversaries on the same field that we are on. I do not wish to play in an unfair game where either side has the upper hand due to knowing each other or some outside communication source not implemented into the game by riot.

When playing against or even with premade groups, my personal enjoyment diminishes drastically compared to if i played by myself with 4 other people who never met each other. There was once a time in my life when i could not wait until i could play league, because i could click on solo queue, meet some interesting people on a competitive field of battle! "Who will i meet today? A tahm kench jungle one trick pony? a jax main that has played since the beta? what sort of interesting people will i meet?" over the last few months, i have slowly lost that enjoyment for the game because of my consistent warm up games in normals. It sickens me that i am forced to be paired with, or against, people who are basically a mob, it makes the game lackluster and has made me consider quitting after my many years of playing.

The satirical list of rules are things that i have noticed EVERY premade group, that i have had the displeasure of playing with, or against, in the last few months, consistently use. There are people out there who do not, i am 100% sure of it, but on a various number of accounts with different MMRs i have run into these people many times. So a question that has fallen upon deaf ears many times needs to be answered, Will there ever be a way to filter out premade groups and/or the need for autofill, with a sacrifice to wait time to find a match?

an instance would be like a toggle button (much like low spec mode) where you click it, and the match making system understands that you really want mid lane, so instead of filling you into the next available game, you wait an extra 3 minutes to when mid lane is open. Same thing with a premade group, if there could be an extended wait time of 2-3 minutes for me to get into a game with only solo and duo players, i would gladly do that. It would make the game alot more entertaining for myself and many others out there.

So to wrap it up, i hate premades and autofill, as many others do. Will there ever be a way to avoid those two things in order to increase the enjoyment of certain players? What will be required to make it happen? If it is not possible, why is it not? What requirements aren't met for something like this to be implemented? And finally i want to know the communities thoughts on this as well, I understand that forums are (for the most part) more mature than a place such as reddit, So the general consensus will say they see no problem with it, but has anyone dealt with this type of issue before? care to share? anyone disagree completely and want to attempt to belittle me? go right ahead! All in all, i just want to play the game i used to know and love.

PS: sorry for the length and lack of formatting, this was an endeavour that took 10 minutes while tired

Sincerly -A tired pirate

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