Riot needs to force some variety in the international tournaments

dethkyle·5/2/2017, 12:07:12 AM·1 votes·555 views

Riot should put limits on how many times a champion can be played in the tournaments. Screw this bullshit of the same damn champions being played in every game. There's 136 champions right now, yet only like 30 champs are played though out the entire tournaments. It's cool to watch these pros play Lee sin but after 4 days of him being in almost all 6 games played each day is repetitive as hell. I'm curious to know if I'm the only one who feels this way so I'm gonna start a poll in this thread. If you disagree I'd like to know why seeing the same champs played over an over again doesn't get kinda boring after awhile.

10 Comments

Anastaecia5/2/2017, 12:09:57 AM1 votes

I think we would all like to see that, but the Pros are going for the best performances here, so it will probably never happen.

NOW, they could do it for all stars or something that is just for fun. Maybe make each game have a set group of champs to pick from, and it rotates each game.

MysterQ5/2/2017, 12:17:40 AM1 votes

I think in Best of 3s/5s, Riot can limit it per team. Not for the whole series, but if have a "cooldown" period before champion can be reused. Automatically forces variety, forces champ pool widening. Also adds more strategic pick and bans as well (especially if champ cooldown is applied to both teams but that is extreme).

Noctkazaku5/2/2017, 12:26:26 AM1 votes

Wish there was more variety (though I don't watch the LCS much) I really liked seeing Darius in the MSI a few days ago. The announcers did too as they seemed excited to have a new, unexpected champ get picked for the game. But seeing Kha'zix (or whoever gets played a lot) over and over again gets tiring.

GeminiRune5/2/2017, 12:33:12 AM1 votes

I personally disagree because it's primarily kind of the same run down discussion that popped up on the boards almost every competitive patch this split. "Champion diversity," "How to spice up competition," etc. And the recommendations are usually a "selection limit" of some kind. No other Esports game does that where you have to forcibly switch your mental state through character or weapon choices because of repetition. There's also some kind of off the wall low number to emphasize lack of knowledge as the viewer and whatnot.

In a main international tournament, there shouldn't be a force for variety for the sake of viewers alone, whether or not it is as boring as most would feel it out to be. Save that for something less meaningful and more on the fun side; as Anastaecia said: All Stars. Even in a case where there was nothing to fight for in the last 4 games of Group B, there was still regional pride to an extent. It's a shame that the teams did choose to go that route to play the competitive standard instead of get a little silly.