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Severe lack of LCS champion diversity

BESTELPENGUINO··1 votes·897 views

I don't know about anybody else but I am extremely disappointed in lack of champion diversity in LCS play. It is honestly so boring to watch the games nowadays as a pool of only about 16 total champions get played in any given game(with a rare event of some pocket pick). I think if Riot really wants to push for more champions being played(and they say that they do, the 5 ban system was supposed to help this) then what they need to do is implement a cap on the number of times that a certain champion can be played in a series. This literally forces other champions to be chosen and brings about more exciting matchups and series where you actually need to be the better team to win, not just pick the better champions.

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SchmidttyGames10 votes

After two weeks:

NA LCS: 61 Champions Picked/Banned EU LCS: 55 Champions Picked/Banned

Seems fairly diverse to me.

III BAKURYU III 1 votes

NOT enough diversity! You know how many nights I cry myself to sleep because of not having enough diversity in the LCS?

I don't care that these are pro players that know what champions are good or not and I don't care that they are pretty much showing me and others the champions to gain elo in solo Q; I want diversity.

BESTELPENGUINO1 votes

But how many of the 61 or 55 were played only once or twice?

GeminiRune3 votes

It was picked or banned nonetheless; whether it's once or twice as a pocket pick or a confident and practiced pick by the team. Yet that's still such an issue to fans.

The issue that fans who have grieved regarding "LCS champion diversity" seem to not be used to how pro play seems to work. A pro player on a team doesn't just step on the stage and say to play something different for the fans and entertainment unless there's some trust in it or there's nothing to really play for. That's not how it works.

A bit of extra info: if you put all 5 premier regions together, you have about 84 Champions picked/banned collectively so far with just ONE patch of an entire season to come. That just shows there's even regional diversity let alone more champion diversity than what's been in recent history.

BigBellBrute1 votes

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After two weeks:

NA LCS: 61 Champions Picked/Banned EU LCS: 55 Champions Picked/Banned

Seems fairly diverse to me.

Stop interrupting our rants with facts.

Sagan Forever2 votes

Diversity has improved stop the qq posts about it already.

MrHaZeYo1 votes

Mao Naut Poppy Singed Swain Fiora Jayce Cam Trundle Sion

Rengar Kha'Zix Lee Sin Graves Rek'Sai Elise

Syndra LeBlanc Orianna Cass Kassadin Corki Ryze Twisted Fate Fizz Kat Ekko

Jihn Varus Ashe Kalista Ezreal Cait

Malz Zyra Thresh Miss Fortune Nami Lulu Tahm Kench Taric

All were played or banned. Off the top of my head.

BESTELPENGUINO1 votes

Yeah as the guy above pointed out there are 61 for NA and 55 for EU. But for example in NA there have been 51 games which gives 510 champion picks(obviously they can't all be different) but in 510 available picks there have only been 61 unique ones, which means the same ones are picked over and over and over.

MrHaZeYo1 votes

The problem is there is no way that every champ can be pro worthy playable.

61 out of 134 in two weeks isn't awful.

We nerf Syndra to the ground, someone will raise up and take her place. Balance is a fools game, it can never be. It has never been thus far and it will have been when the game dies out.

Simply number tuning will make or break champs and push them over or under.

BESTELPENGUINO1 votes

I understand that not every champ is viable and nerfs/number tuning is not the right way to go. Its just that i bet 75%+ of the games are mao, naut, or poppy top kha, rengar, lee sin, or reksai jungle syndra, ekko, cass, ryze, ori mid jhin, varus, ashe adc zyra, malz, karma support. Its just the same thing over and over with rotating some in and out with nerfs and buffs, but really the same pool of about 15-20 champs. Just kinda gets boring when these players have the skillsets for so much more

oSEXYPLATYPUSo3 votes

lol so close 45-46% of champs were played in the lcs and people cry over diversity

warpenguin5551 votes

lol thats already better than worlds 2016

B00B002 votes

dude thats almost half of the available picks, over all regions they've picked over 100 of the availalbe 130ish now?

BigBellBrute1 votes

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Yeah as the guy above pointed out there are 61 for NA and 55 for EU. But for example in NA there have been 51 games which gives 510 champion picks(obviously they can't all be different) but in 510 available picks there have only been 61 unique ones, which means the same ones are picked over and over and over.

Well if they had used 120, we'd still seen them over and over. So your point is moot.

warpenguin5551 votes

There was actually a Mordekaiser in a EU game last week. Cant remember who played it but i know it was vs Vitality on friday

KVbqbFsC8e1 votes

One of the factors in it is the fact that red side has to ban Camille Rengar and Leblanc virtually every match.

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