"Avoid as Teammate" during a queue?

I remember hearing somewhere that you needed to avoid before queueing otherwise you could still possibly get the avoided player on your team - but I’m not entirely sure that’s true. Especially with the new requeue feature after a match, I want to know if this is true or not to make my requeuing more efficient

Yes you need to avoid someone or you can get thrown back into the same match if you requeue quickly.