In-lobby role swap and role priority - feature request for 2-2-2

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A quality of life request for 2-2-2 ques.

Role swap

Let’s say you have picked two or even all roles and at least one other person in your team did so as well. Give those player the option to swap roles in the lobby.

To make it a bit more clear:

P1 queued for Support and Tank - got Support.
P2 queued for DPS , Tank and Support - got Tank.

They got map X. P1 is more comfortable to play Tank and P2 is more comfortable to play Support on this map. Give those players a chance to swap their roles so P1 can play as Tank and P2 can play as Support.

Role priority

Personally I am a Tracer and Sombra Main and would prefer to play those. However I also enjoy playing the Tanks like Winston and Zarya. Therefore I gonna pick DPS and Tank, while tending more to play DPS.

My suggestions is to give players on the role selection screen the ability to give certain roles a higher priority if they picked multiple roles.

If you set the DPS priority to 1 (highest) and Tank priority to 2, the matchmaker should look at those value and try to give you your priority 1 role. If this isn’t posibile give the player a matchmaking-priority-point (MPR). Every time you don’t get the priority 1 role you get a MPR. If you got 3 MPRs the matchmaker assigns you to your priority 1 role and resets the counter.

Note that the counter goes up to three points and resets everytime to zero as you got to play your priority one role.

EDIT:
To restrict people abusing the role-swap system by going flex, just so they can increase their chance of playing DPS and begging for it, add a new report option to the game in ranked: “Refused to play assigned role”

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This is kind of what League of Legends does! It works so well there and I think it could work quite well here too!

The role swap you can agree or disagree to swap, and it encourages communication! Plus the whole
“Can someone go x hero? Does anyone play x hero?”
“Oh yeah I do, but then can you play x role?”
“Yeah!”
Happens already, but this would be more structured and you can refuse and have that refusal be RESPECTED.

I also like the MPR system you are suggesting, as what happens a lot with flex Tank players in the current PTR who queue for more than one role, they ALWAYS get placed as a Tank due to high demand.

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Good idea, it would still hold people to their selected roles, but allow two players of similarly selected roles to interchange if both agree.

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And it will reduce a lot of the whining :slight_smile:
With good reason, of course… Uhm, yeah… Great idea!

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I hope Blizzard reads this and considers implementing something of the sort in the future.

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It depends on how they match the SR in the queue. If they match equal tanks’, equal dps’, and equal healers’ SR it would disrupt the system if you then were allowed to swap roles in the hero selection screen. Overall I don’t really like this idea. I don’t want people even speaking about swapping roles since this is what breaks most team from the very start.