Problem: There is still a constant deficit of certain roles in team builder resulting in long wait times.
Solution: To increase a desired behavior, add an incentive. An obvious example would be to give extra ip after the game. Maybe a flat 5-15 IP or an extra 5%-10%.
If you like the suggestion, remember to up-vote it :)
I also do not like how it resets the timer when a group disbands. I think it skews their data when they see low wait times. I solo queued once, and had about 5 games disband. Each one lasted 5 minutes. At the end of my 20+ minute wait, it said I had been in queue like 6 minutes, with 54 minutes remaining. I'm like wtf, why does it reduce time after each group disbands because their is no jungler/adc/support.
Role: click fill.
The game then informs you that you are "Botlane-Support"
You then choose a champ as normal.
Let's upvote this. I like it. Get Riot's attention.
The reward for these players is that they get a shorter queue time compared to the average player. I feel like if Riot were to choose certain roles as priority people would end up picking those roles for the sake of the shiny reward rather than the fact that they enjoy playing the position. That in turn would decrease the overall enjoyment for everyone involved :(
This has been suggested so many times and always gets ignored. There is no downside to this but rito will have some bullshit like "this will skew ip gains and unfairly reward players who normally play these roles anyway"
Ty based rito
Yes, this is definitely a problem. I found the same problems back when I played WOW. Always looking for a tank or healer. I'm not sure why this is the case with league. Is it simply because to fill a team at least three (typically 4) people need to play damage dealing roles so there are naturally fewer support players in the pool? Or maybe a more likely reason is that being a support is simply less appealing? I do play support occasionally but not nearly as much as I play jungle or top. I think this is also the case for many other players because playing top,mid,jung, or adc is more satisfying because you get to kill, gank, and pwn the other team while the supp is just there to stop this from happening to his/her own team. I am not trying to belittle a supp's role at all, they are a critical part of a team and a having a good or bad support can make or break a game. However I think the problem is that the glory and attention almost always goes to the champ that got the most kills or objectives and rarely to the champ who saved some guy from certain death countless times or sacrificed himself to save his team from a bad engage. I think if the community/Riot can work to make the role of support more satisfying or visibly important then this problem of long waits for a supp may go away. One possible solution is to somehow track near death saves or something along those lines. I know that is not necessarily something that is easy to track but I think that if there was someway of showing how a support performed that would be a start in the right direction. Maybe something that showed "lives saved" or something like that on the main post game screen could be a solution? In a nutshell, the problem I see is that all the glory goes to the the killers and none to the life savers.
I know that at times other roles are hard to come by, but the majority of the time it comes down to "dang, where is this support? I've been waiting 10 mins..." situations. Sorry this is really long winded, I only intended to say a couple sentences lol.
It could even be something like a summoner icon for selecting the "fill" role a certain number of times. Similar to how you get "Marksman" icons? Often times I just want to play a certain champion (ex. Viktor) that I could play in multiple roles (Top/Mid/Support). I would be fine with queuing up for multiple roles and then changing summoners/runes/masteries based off the role I end up in. Just thinking.
