I'm sorry, this has probably been discussed a hundred times over.

But i am sick of people going afk, having client issues or for what ever reason not being able able to make a sleection in champion select and being "randomed" a character.

I can't see any benefits of this existing. If someone doesn't make a selection, kick them from the queue - particularly now given the proposal to the removal of queue dodging elo loss.

Nobody wants to sit through a game having to play support anivia with smite and jungle runes and nobody wants to play a game with a support anivia with smite and jungle runes (i'm paraphrasing of course).


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Usually, at least from my experience, the player does get removed from selection, it just happens after their champion is selected and just before the game actually begins. I do agree though that players who are AFK shouldnt' be queued.

I have seen that if they disconnect prior to champion selection they are removed before the game starts, but not straight up AFK. The paraphrased Anivia situation was myself, the client bugged... my PC locked because of it and i was unable to even close the game before being entered into the game, as i rebooted and logged in i found i was anivia with my lee sin runes and materies with smite and was forced bot to support.

It's just not an enjoyable experience

It is indeed a thing. We do not like that it is a thing. We want to make a better thing.

We are looking in to solutions to making a better thing

I honestly don't know why this was ever implemented, and why it has been around for so long when everyone hates it.

If you're AFK and it "auto-selects" it should automatically consider you a queue dodger and punish you equally as to what one would get from queue dodging.

are you guys also looking into the afk/leavers/trolls thing. losing elo from this thing also doesn't make sense.

It would be nice if you could just turn it "off" until you come up with something better...

How can you really expect anyone to take you guys seriously? You play the game just like we do and you've run into these problems in ranked. There is absolutely no reason in the world why random select should have ever been a part of ranked draft pick.

I've raised this issue in the past and I've still yet to hear a single Rioter or anyone else for that matter offer a compelling reason as to why random (be it through afk or not) is even a feature in ranked games...

The fact that this hasn't been addressed through nearly 2 full ranked seasons is pretty staggering to say the least.

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