How exactly does role selection work?

DOUBLE TAPPED E·3/2/2018, 7:42:47 PM·1 votes·199 views

For example, assuming I've chosen Top and Support as my primary and secondary roles, respectively: if someone would normally be filled as Support because the queue system can't find a support player, would I receive my secondary role?

4 Comments

Huang Shaotian3/2/2018, 7:59:14 PM1 votes

Not entirely sure I understand the question. If you have support as your secondary role, you will get support as that role. No one would need to be autofilled?

ValyrianBlade3/2/2018, 8:02:38 PM1 votes

I think that's how it originally worked, but then people complained that they always got support if they put it secondary.

Now the system tries a bit harder to give you your primary, at least circumstantially (e.g. you got your secondary recently, or you're playing during a popular time so the system will wait and find a primary; versus it not caring and giving secondary if you've played your primary a lot lately / are playing off peak hours). So no, it's possible you'll get top while an ally/enemy is filled support (even possible despite them queuing for top too!), Although generally I'd suspect you'll get support assigned often in that case.

Warlord Scrap3/2/2018, 8:02:45 PM1 votes

From personal experience no because ive had support secondary top primary and someone had top mid and got filled as support.

DOUBLE TAPPED E3/2/2018, 8:11:46 PM1 votes

Huh, ok, thanks for the responses!