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Autofill is ruining the draft for everyone, here is reasons why.

Corey Grim··4 votes·970 views

Autofill is ruining your queue times and people are behaving idioticly because of it, especially in draft mode, i dont play ranked yet. Autofill is not resulting into lower queue times, it is resulting into games that get trolled, picks that are not supporting the gameplay and ruining the match for 9 people because that one dude got autofilled to support.

Autofill is resulting into: -People behave badly. (go troll, take troll picks, start game->feed couple times-> go afk) -Match quality greatly suffers because people play off position and get trolled because they are not very good off position. -Queue time longer, because so many quits before match start. -Queue time longer because people rather play aram than draft if autofill is enabled. -Individual player frustration (4 drafts straight i got my main position, all of those stopped before start, then autofilled to off position=not fun) -Flaming, blaming and verbal abuse increase.

I've been playing 2 months now, and i seriously think that im not gonna solo queue anymore and start to play exclusively ARAM, i have friend who mains support, so playing with him is the only way I can enjoy draft.

Please Riot, i can understand autofill in high ELO but in draft this is just not acceptable. Autofill creates more problems than it solves, you have to see that. and reading the data you have is not the reality necessarily.

10 Comments

Ada Wong2 votes

I hate auto fill, but perhaps this is why so many incompetent junglers throw games off lately and have no idea what they are doing???

I Don't mind the wait, but players who use Auto Fill and troll needs to be dealt with, I don't mean going off meta, but I mean actually trolling such as refusing to fill role.

Wolftastic331 votes

I agree, let's put people back to season 5 champion select, where it doesn't matter what you call, as the first person to select a champ gets to decide his role, and the others simply have to choose one from the ones not taken yet!

Corey Grim1 votes

I dont think this solves anything. Solving this issue needs 2 parts: -Rewarding play for less played roles (not just support) -Make autofill optional for those people who feel uncomfrotable to play any other role than their 2 selected. that would mean longer queue times for those people, but the match quality would greatly benefit.

Wolftastic331 votes

[{quoted}](name=Corey Grim,realm=EUNE,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=aqx3n14F,comment-id=00000000,timestamp=2016-10-25T09:22:28.546+0000)

I dont think this solves anything. Solving this issue needs 2 parts: -Rewarding play for less played roles (not just support) -Make autofill optional for those people who feel uncomfrotable to play any other role than their 2 selected. that would mean longer queue times for those people, but the match quality would greatly benefit.

How about skill measurement: Being able to play everything, and adapt to what the team needs in every role? Right now, people who only know how to play top and jungle can easily reach a rank while being bronze V with all other roles. Is that really skill?

Corey Grim1 votes

You miss the point, off position support is bad for adc, and thus for the whole team and jungler. off position play is something that should not be encouraged.

Wolftastic331 votes

[{quoted}](name=Corey Grim,realm=EUNE,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=aqx3n14F,comment-id=0000000000000000,timestamp=2016-10-25T10:08:34.208+0000)

You miss the point, off position support is bad for adc, and thus for the whole team and jungler. off position play is something that should not be encouraged.

You should learn how to do every roll well, and have one you're extra well in. You wouldn't have a bad support, that way.

Lauchmelder1 votes

You already get benefits for picking support or getting autofilled.

It guarantees that you get one of your 2 selected roles in the next game you play. And talking from experience it's even a 60/40% chance to get mid if you selected mid/support as your preferred roles and have the autofill bonus active.

Wolftastic331 votes

[{quoted}](name=MadKnife IV,realm=EUW,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=aqx3n14F,comment-id=000000000001,timestamp=2016-10-25T09:47:13.641+0000)

You already get benefits for picking support or getting autofilled.

It guarantees that you get one of your 2 selected roles in the next game you play. And talking from experience it's even a 60/40% chance to get mid if you selected mid/support as your preferred roles and have the autofill bonus active.

As I said, in season five, no one cared about you if you were 5th to pick in the team. You could be the first one calling mid, but if the first guy picked mid, then you simply couldnt mid anymore.

Lauchmelder1 votes

Check who I responded to and try to keep a triggerhappy finger away from votes

Kei1431 votes

did you know, if you picked fill (or support) once, then you will automatically be protected by auto-fill next match.

There's your incentive for queuing fill.

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