Additional Variety in Pro Play

rtbf78029141·Apr 25, 2017·1 votes·542 views

Champion pools are almost static in the LCS at times. Riot should consider adding random bans before champion pick and ban to force variety. I would find the games more interesting to watch.

6 Comments

JaspersApr 25, 20172 votes

The random ban will be that of any champ, right? so when Diana (seen no pro play this split as far as I know) gets banned by the system, the teams won't care and just go back to picking the same 10 champs again.

Many have suggested a limit amount of uses of a Champion, not sure how it might work but maybe only use a champ once per match (best of 3/5), bans can stay the same. So if a match goes to a 5 game series, players and coaches will actually have to think outside the box a little to form a good team comp and making sure not to blow all the 'OP' champs on winning the first game.

Miror BApr 25, 20171 votes

The problem of course being that tier lists would still stay roughly the same only that we'd then see things like nunu have higher priority in other games and things like zed be insta-locked first rotation.

If rito really wants to solve the "Stagnation" of the metas, I'd personally like to see them play on live patches instead of ones that are (usually) out for weeks prior to competitive. While it would somewhat annoy the team owners due to not having time to practice certain characters, it could also allow mini-metas to form by accident in series while also focusing more on the "theory" aspect of the game rather than the "practice and perform" part.

Kings AvatarApr 26, 20171 votes

you have to look at it from a more advanced perspective. first you have to define what your "stagnation" is. if we go with the champ picked once per match (which i think is stupid but it was suggested so w/e) that mean that in a best of 5 we would need at least 50 champs picked. in the NA LCS, EU LCS, LCK, LMS, and LPL, the 50th most picked champ was olaf at exactly 4%. this still equates to 42 games played. now the reason why this system would never work is its not reasonable to expect pros to be able to play 15 champions at the highest level. if you someone thinks otherwise than they just dont want to watch the best quality league possible. i think there were just over a thousand games played in the spring split of 2017. i think like 100 or so champs were picked. idk, but it seems that it has a pretty good variety if you look at it from a bigger picture.

dark100dark100Apr 25, 20171 votes

Most teams expects those champions. This would be disastrous for many popular teams.

YambrinZApr 26, 20171 votes

People been complaining about this since day 1. Ive just learned to do other things if the same 10 champions I see over and over are picked again. Ill watch a game here or there if a new pick pops up, other than that though, competitive is boring as hell to watch most times. I think they forget that the LCS LCK etc are ENTERTAINMENT. The best time to watch is at the start of splits...usually the new op picks will be different for that first week, so for that one week they will be new, and youll know what champs will be picked for the rest of the split ;)

Kings AvatarApr 26, 20171 votes

i think your exaggerating, everyone is, when they say same 10 champs. its just not true. in the NA LCS, EU LCS, LCK, LMS, and LPL the most picked champ, ashe, still was picked in under half of the games played. not by much (47%) but the most picked champ was in less than 50% of games.