Auto Fill

Unova Fx·Dec 31, 2016·2 votes·782 views

The worst thing about autofill is that it makes players frustrated. It has promoted more of a toxic community, because people can not play certain champs. Say if I get put in support vs a main support who is going to do better over all. Or since I haven't jungled in awhile, and I only can remember so much. Riot needs to change everything about this auto fill I would rather have longer queue times than to worry about losing the game. I have never lost so much and felt so pissed off with this, then I have to worry about runes and counters. Which not many players can rely on these Auto fill.

This is promoting anger.! Promoting bad games. Demoting us in our games! Get Rid Of This Auto Fill!

Also Don't Nerf kennen, and nerf sona she two shotted tanks in aram with lichbane,..

But we need to get rid of autofill [slayer-jinx-unamused]

9 Comments

rtbf69774614Dec 31, 20161 votes

Keep it in high elo, don't make me autofill in silver....[zombie-brand-facepalm]

Unova FxFeb 22, 20171 votes

See I agree with this!

OnlyYouCanHearMeDec 31, 20161 votes

Noooooooo dont nerf Sona again.

I don't usually have a problem with autofill, being a support main, but out of habit I always queue up as Support/Fill. And there have been a few times that I've gotten stuck in another lane. And on those occasions, I have pretty much always ended up matched against someone that mains that lane, which makes it really hard like you said. I kinda miss the old teambuilder, because it would adjust the skill of the people you played against based on the experience you had in both the role and the champion that you played. But I can see why they nixed it, and why they have the autofill; namely to try and keep the queue times shorter.

Brutalitops01Jan 1, 20171 votes

I've been autofilled a few times now. There's a brief moment of "damn it, I got autofilled..." in champ select, and then I just pick someone I'm relatively comfortable with in that lane and play anyway. I don't understand why anyone would troll or try to lose just because they got autofilled. Yes, it's a little bit frustrating, but I remember trying to do my first round of placements, at that time maining mid and having never really played anything else, and being too low on the pick order to get mid and having to support, a role that I had, at that time, never played and didn't even have any champions for. You were first pick? You had all 3 bans and were guaranteed to get whatever role you wanted, but sacrificed pick safety. You were last pick? Unless someone in that lobby was a support main, you were playing support, no matter how begrudgingly you did. I stopped playing ranked after 1 game of this, but some people got to climb to platinum, diamond, even higher with this system, despite the fact that their role was determined by the fact that anyone who picks before them could take their role. Complain as much as you want, it used to be a lot worse. However, getting an autofill support who has no idea what they're doing, as an ADC main, I can say is the most annoying thing that can happen for you, and it typically ruins your early game and you then become completely useless until your power spike.

EvilMerodachJan 1, 20171 votes

Yeh lets go back to the 'mid or feed' and 'i called top 1st on my screen so i'm going top regardless of what you say/do' system. That was so much better than playing 1/5< games as not one of your top 2 roles. /s

Pitl3ull LegendJan 2, 20171 votes

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Yeh lets go back to the 'mid or feed' and 'i called top 1st on my screen so i'm going top regardless of what you say/do' system. That was so much better than playing 1/5< games as not one of your top 2 roles. /s

Why does it have to go to mid or feed. WHy not just have draft and wait longer for que to pop versus making me play something I don't want or not that good at.

EvilMerodachJan 3, 20171 votes

Because the problem is beyond just 'slightly longer queue times' It's about queue health in general.

Say some guy is a mid main/secondary support, so they queue mid/support. Without autofill, they get support 90% of the time, and get mid 10% of the time. So they say fk that, and start queuing mid/top, then just ask for a trade/or dodge if they land top.

Ok there's one less person to fill in support role. Now queue times get slightly worse.

Now the next guy who is a mid 1st/support 2nd main gets support 91% of the time and mid 9% of the time. Cause, eventually, someone's gotta be that support.

This falls completely downhill till you put support or fill as any of your pref, you're 100% guaranteed to get support. Which leads to less and less people queuing either role as support or fill, except your diehard support mains. Which it's already known that they're vastly under-popular.

So now queue times start rising on their own, because the system is just having 4 guys sitting in queue waiting for 1 to be willing to play support.

Now you have longer queue times than before, and don't even have autofill to fix it.

Then their algorithm just has to break down and start pulling every single person who queues support into a game ASAP, regardless of mmr differences.

Now we have decent queue times again, but vastly unfair matches being decided purely on which side pulled the higher ranking support main.

And this would just get worse and worse as time goes on because each 'fix' that is not autofill, is just a band-aid fix that will delay the problem of low queue times vs getting roll you queued for.

So, no, it's not just 'I'm ok waiting 3 extra minutes to get the role I want.' Because, while this week, that might be true. Next week it might be 4 or 5 extra minutes. Then 6 or 7 the week after that.

Because it just comes down to: If <1/5th of League players do not want to play support, eventually, someone who does not want to play support will have to be forced to play support. It's just basic math.

And if you want to go back to old draft system, (without pref roles) It will 100% degrade back to people spamming 'mid or feed' Because that's just human nature. When we want something, and we don't get it, we get angry. And without some form or hard laws or 'mothering' there to prevent it, we'll take it even when we know we're not supposed to.

Pitl3ull LegendJan 4, 20171 votes

SIgh, needs to stay 2016 with draft not bs auto fill. I am not angry, far to old to be angry about a video game. It just makes me never want to que as ranked because I feel it is unfair to one of the teams period.

Pitl3ull LegendJan 2, 20171 votes

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The worst thing about autofill is that it makes players frustrated. It has promoted more of a toxic community, because people can not play certain champs. Say if I get put in support vs a main support who is going to do better over all. Or since I haven't jungled in awhile, and I only can remember so much. Riot needs to change everything about this auto fill I would rather have longer queue times than to worry about losing the game. I have never lost so much and felt so pissed off with this, then I have to worry about runes and counters. Which not many players can rely on these Auto fill.

This is promoting anger.! Promoting bad games. Demoting us in our games! Get Rid Of This Auto Fill!

Also Don't Nerf kennen, and nerf sona she two shotted tanks in aram with lichbane,..

But we need to get rid of autofill [slayer-jinx-unamused]

I hate it also, needs to go. At least it should go in ranked, glad I don't play ranked really cause this would be bs imo.