Let me preface this by saying, "I like the idea of autofill protection now vs just playing one game as support and having it for a whole day." But I want to bring to light an issue I'm noticing that is now beginning to REALLY shine with the release of Smolder: the only role that offers autofill protection is now jungle.

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A lot of you are going to read that first paragraph and say, "well learn a jungle" and sure, that would resolve it if autofill worked like it did in earlier seasons, but now, that just wouldn't be a fix. I would have to swap my main lane to jungle, and quite frankly, that's a specialty role that feels unintuitive and unfun to pilot in. If we are going to say that the issue is everyone is playing the same role, then shouldn't only one or two of the roles run you the risk of autofill. You can't say you have an overpopulation of 80% of the roles that can be played, that just doesn't make any sense. There needs to be some reworking on this, because not everyone can just pick up a jungle, and most people don't WANT to pick up a jungle because of how volatile other roles are to that specific role. I, myself, was a support main in season 2, continued to support well into season 12, and when that became the most saturated role, made the move to adc. Now all of a sudden, I can't lock in for top, it's "oversaturated with players," I can't lock into mid, it's also, "oversaturated with players," can't lock into support, yet again, "oversaturated" and can't lock into adc, "oversaturated." You can't say that 80% of your game is the overplayed role with this new system. I hope someone at riot catches this and sends out a hotfix because a lot of people are going to get autofilled jungle, they will get tilted, and there will be bans for something they had no real control over.

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Sincerely,

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A Concerned League Player