Changing the Pick and Ban Phase for competetive Best of 3s and 5s
Hey!
First of all, I do like the game and I do enjoy watching it, so the following is just something that would make it even more enjoyable to watch in my opinion. You might not agree with me and feel free to critizise the idea, but hear me out first.
In my opinion League has gotten to a point where you only realisticly see ~ 20 - 30 champions out of the realeased 140 in competetive play. 10 of which are getting banned and 10 are getting picked every game. So we basically see the same champions every game always, which makes it kind of repetetive and boring to me.
I would very much enjoy it if we would instead see a larger variety of champions and to ensure that I would suggest to get rid of the banning phase and instead introduce a new rule in best of 3s and best of 5s:
"Every champion can only be picked once by any team in a series."
This way we have a variety of 20-50 champions each series and we get to see champions that are otherwise permanently banned, like Zoe and champions that have a very low pick priority when series last for more than 2 games.
As of now all lanes are rotating between ~4 champions. 2 of them beeing picked every game and 2 of them beeing banned every game.
Top: Orn, Gnar, Gangplank, Camille Jungle: Skarner, Sejuani, Jarvan, Zac Mid: Ryze, Azir, Taliyah, Galio (with zoe beeing banned every game) Bot: Ezrael, Tristana, Kog, Varus Support: Braum, Taric, Alistar, Tham-Khench
Of course there is the occasional pick that is not part of that list. Vlad, Sion, Khazix, Jax, Orianna, Corki, Xayah, Kalista, Rakan and Shen for example. But they are so rare and realisticly only show up if a single role is banned out heavily.
I think my idea is worth considering and can even be improved.
For example not getting rid of banning for good but reducing the banns back down to 2 or 3 banns per game or 5 bans per series. To ramp it up to ~40-70 different Champions per best of 5.
Thanks for reading and I am looking forward to your responses!