So I looked through the boards and read about people who get champions that they really don't want to play. So what if they created banning in ARAM to prevent one team from having, say, all adc's and the other team end up with all fighters (or similarly unbalanced situations). It also partially solves the problem of getting champions that you simply don't want to play (for me it's singed lol).
I know there could be a lot of potential problems but idk i feel like it could work.
Provengreil2 votesI think I'd settle for an internal tagging system and a mandatory minimum of 3 different types of champs (marksmen, diver, tank, support, etc).
Warlord Scrap1 votesId be fine even with at least 1 of each (matksman, ap ranged, melee.
mkyner2 votesIn the past, I've advocated for giving everyone a handful of self-bans that they would set up on their profile, kind of like how we used to set up equipment pages and such. The number of champions you can self-ban would be equal to 1/10th the number of champions you own. Then, you would never get that champion in ARAM. Like for you, you'd pick Singed, then never get Singed in ARAM.
hibird892 votesThat sounds smart, so if you had like 20 champions you could ban 2? What if you had under 10 champions?
mkyner1 votesExactly. If you own 11-20 champions, get two self-bans. If you have 10 or fewer champions, you get one self-ban. 21-30, three self-bans, etc. So every week, look at the champions you own and those in free rotation, decide which you would least-like to play, and then self-ban those champions.
Just to clarify, this would not impact pre-game trading. Like, if for some reason you wanted to trade with the guy who had Singed (like, if he was a buddy that you knew would do a lot better with the champion you got, for example), that trade option would still show up. The self-bans only influence what random champion you receive initially, and what you receive from rerolls.
I had originally considered just giving everyone a number of self-bans = to 10% of the total number of champions, (I think there are 138 champions now, so like 14 self-bans) with the idea that they would set their bans once and then not have to worry about it. But, with ARAM-only accounts, people could use all those bans to cancel out most of the free rotation every week, guaranteeing that they end up with good champions of their choice in ARAM. Since the point of this system is to avoid the champions you really don't like (in your case, Singed), rather than help people end up with only a few specific champions, having the total number of self-bans be based on the number of champions the player owns seemed more reasonable.
Blacklotus871 votesWell if they would stop running crap alternate game modes. We would have Poro king or Hexakill.
hibird891 votesTrue. I would be fine with bloodmoon too though