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Please don't remove normal teambuilder when TB Draft goes live

A Ocean·11/4/2015, 6:22:53 AM·4 votes·605 views

We'd like the new Champ Select to replace "classic" Team Builder, and become the new Ranked queue.

Imagine I want to play a new champ, e.g. Kalista, for the first time. So I queue up as "ADC / Fill" to at least have a CHANCE of getting ADC, if I have bad luck I still get Support. I'm not a good ADC and I tell my team that. Instantly I get flamed by 3 people for picking ADC. My support instalocks Vel'Koz because he looked me up on Lolking and saw that I play Varus a lot. When I say I'd rather try Kalista I get flamed and told I should pick my main, not some champ I'm a noob at.

Or, even better: Imagine you want to play something off-meta. Like Bard Jungle. What mode do you go to? In teambuilder everyone can decide if they want to play with a Bard jg, in the new TB Draft mode you'll get flamed by 4 people who expected you to pick a "normal" jungler. Other way round, you can also no longer decide if you want to play with that Soraka mid or not.

I better learn all the 127 champs before 5.23, when Team Builder is gone I won't be able to do that anymore.

1 Comments

SonicSalem11/5/2015, 2:07:43 AM2 votes

Yeah this worries me a lot. Besides ARAMs, I literally only play Team Builder unless I'm playing with 3 or 4 friends.

Yes, sometimes there's a decent wait if I want to go Mid (or Top, but I don't like Top anyway), but the system worked. TB is less toxic than Blind by far, and most importantly, you were guaranteed to get the role and the champion you wanted. If you want to go Mid & you are always the last one to load into the chat in Blind picks, you could still get your role. If you wanted to try something off-meta, it wasn't a big deal.

With this new system, you aren't guaranteed the role you request; obviously in Blind Pick you might not get the role you call either (someone could call first), but it always seemed like one of the points of TB was that you would get the ONE role you wanted.

Also, I'm a little unclear on the banning; will this new mode be split into Blind & Draft? If not, it seems like not only could you not get the role you want, you could also have the champion you intend on playing banned, which again removes what I believe is another one of the intentions of TB "Classic."

There's nothing wrong with this new mode, but TB "Classic" should continue to exist with it, this new mode should solve those issues.