Immortal draft: WHY?

[No Chat/Voice]

i just don't get it - why not keep the old role-based draft?
What is the point?
If i want to play pos 4, i just can't - i have to gamble and maybe i will get it 1 out of 5 games.
Instead of a guaranteed role-based queue.

*I guess it is old news, now that i googled that - but still, looks bizarre to me, see no point in it so far.

[Dinsdale]

Rolebased initially took forever for certain roles, guess which ones. The players fixed this by queueing for regular ranked, with the end result being players would fight for safe and mid and not letting the best players play these lanes. So instead players would pick treant and ruin a cores farm if they didnt get to play.

Drafting is the middleground that works.

[Liberty]

Originally posted by Dinsdale:

Rolebased initially took forever for certain roles, guess which ones. The players fixed this by queueing for regular ranked, with the end result being players would fight for safe and mid and not letting the best players play these lanes. So instead players would pick treant and ruin a cores farm if they didnt get to play.

Drafting is the middleground that works.

Yes, might have been in the past, but now it seems pretty random if you get a team of 6 support or a game with 8 core players and search time is like 1-3 min (Europe), they should just display the search time and let people decide themself if it is worth the wait. I'll rather wait 20 min for a game where everyone is the role they want than a game where somebody is forced into a role they either don't want to play or perhaps isn't able to play well at all. Like, how does it make sense that I have gotten my rank by "only" (for the most part) playing support and then in Immortal Draft sometimes I must play another role which I am obviously crap at since I haven't practised it. And when I am terrible I get reported. Then if I try to practise it in unranked I even get reported there as well. I cannot smurf so... I am left with accepting bullcrap, getting reports for trying my best or quiting the game. I know this post is old, but I just needed to vent about the bullcrap.

[Yellowjacket]

on top above 9k mmr + there are only a few player. this way they can get matched. and depending on their mmr its recommended to let the highest experienced player let take the core role. aimagine you queue as support and you have the highest mmr. everyone would please you to take over a core role.

this system is the solution to bring the few people together, otherwise the queue for a singele game would take hours.