WHY IS TEAM BUILDER NOT AVAILABLE FOR RANKED?
Taken from FAQ. (My thoughts followed) > WHY IS TEAM BUILDER NOT AVAILABLE FOR RANKED? > _ Because Team Builder is a brand new way to handle champion select, we started with basic elements such as choosing the champion, position and role you intend to play in a given match. We know that the ban and pick order mechanics of the draft process are critical to the competitive nature of ranked mode, and we’re not quite sure yet how these would fit into Team Builder._
I honestly don't see any reason you can't implement parts of Team Builder into the current ranked queue or even create a secondary queue.
Some things I considered: 1. Remove champion select from Rank Team Builder queue 2. Increase minimum champions required
Match making could be improved by tracking champion and role experience and pair you with enemies and opponents with similar stats. In the lower levels of ranked matches, people end up trolling, fighting, arguing, blaming and flaming over a simple thing like, not getting their role.
One other quality that could be improved is banning. Maybe develop a system that would allow the following: 1. Each player selects 3 champions to ban 2. The system checks for multiple occurrences and places them in a pool for selection 3. When it comes time to ban, the captain will select from the created pool of champions 4. In a case where not enough champions occurred multiple times from voting, either create the pool by random selection, or a list of common bans from the day or recent matches within that tier.
I strongly feel that a Ranked Team Builder queue would offer a lot of improvements to the quality of ranked matches, and could be developed slowly and thoroughly along side the current system and not drastically affect the Ranked queue as a whole. Taking small steps, and allowing to players to chose a queue they like. I don't mind filling whatever role is needed, but some players only want and/or are good at a specific role. And a lot of times when I tell my team that I will fill, and I am not last pick, no one talks. :P
Thanks. Comments?
