Fix autofill.... Please
League playstyles have a huge diversity. Players can choose whether they want to be a tank, running into the enemy team soaking up every bit of damage possible so their team can follow up their nearly un-killable initiator; or they can be an assassin, finding priority targets and making their lives miserable by killing them with their superior mobility and burst; or players can be a mage, with the options to zone, stun, or give aoe, damage over time, or single target damage by using their spell cooldowns properly; or the players can be a marksman, dealing consistent damage from far away while trying to survive the enemy teams focus; Or they can choose to be a support, using their heals, peels, initiations, and buffs and zone tools to make their teams jobs a hell of a lot easier while making the enemy team hate their life and their new, now impossible job. This diversity and choice of playstyle is one of the many things that makes League an amazing game.
So why, WHY, are we not allowing players to choose their own playstyle? autofill is giving players not only roles they dont want, but also roles they can't play. This is bad for EVERYONE, not just the autofilled player. There is now a higher chance of getting trolls and feeders, as if it wasnt high enough already, the whole team suffers because someone is forced to suddenly change their playstyle, communication and moral are destroyed, toxicity goes up, and games are lost and won, not based on skill, but how familiar players are with their roles.
The most common suggested solution is to learn to play all the roles. Firstly, a lot of players will never do this, its just not gonna happen, people play whats fun to them, if they dont like a role they wont play it as well. Its not even necessarily saying they dont know all the roles. If a player was forced to play top lane he might not do it as well as he would on his main role. Thats not to say he cant play top lane, but his top lane is almost certainly not as good if he is, say, a jungle main. If u take away the fun, familiarity, and even part of the essential teamwork aspect of League.
If you have a strong opinion on autofill, positive or negative please comment and share that opinion. I understand that players like their short que times, so maybe an end to autofill will take something more than this one post, but I do feel that autofill is not helping as much as people are saying it is. Thanks for reading this whole post(I know Im probably not the most personable writer), I really appreciate it.