How to make e-sports more intertaining

Mid XOR Feed·2/27/2017, 7:55:07 PM·1 votes·536 views

Hello everybody.

I dont know if its just me (of course its not), but i feel like e-sports now is so boring to watch due to lack of champion diversity in pick/ban.

Why not just limit a number of picks per champion for all teams in, say, LCS season. For example, 5 champion picks per season (one team can pick Ryze no more than 5 times per LCS season).

Teams will "waste" their picks against strong teams or "keep" their picks when facing an easy team. In any case it will make games more interesting to watch:

More champion diversity;
More interesting pick/ban strategy, that also depends on enemy team's tier and number of remaining picks of meta champions;
Games will be more "on the edge" because TSM will try to beat TL with out-of-meta champs!

3 Comments

Earl Eulrich2/28/2017, 12:52:33 PM2 votes

it´s mostly the lack of strategic diversity that leads to games looking more and mor repetitive and therefor growing boring. Unfortunatly Riot put in hard work during the last few years to make sure there is no strategic diversity to be had and the game gets more and mor arcade shootery...so don´t expect anything to change until lol is dead in the water and it´s too late.

hotarse2/28/2017, 1:48:40 PM2 votes

I like it, but I think that it adds a bit too much convolutedness to pick and ban phases. I would simplify this idea and make it so that a champion cannot be picked more than once in a single best of 3 series. For a best of 5 I would increase that two two times.

Brutalitops012/27/2017, 8:00:35 PM1 votes

There are other ways to increase champion diversity, however they involve reworking gameplay mechanics to make the game more like DOTA and are certainly not things that Riot is going to do after 7 years. Maybe during beta, but not now.

The biggest one is giving champions turn speeds. What I mean by that is, basically, each champion takes a certain amount of time to turn. DOTA has this and nearly every one of their heroes see play in the pro scene. Why? Because they all have a chance of being able to do something. Their juggernauts don't get kited as easily because any time someone stops to basic attack, it takes them time to turn around and then turn back and keep running.