Prefered lanes in ranked

Gubaguy··4 votes·954 views

Can we get some kind of team builder style prefered lanes button in ranked play? Not something that lets you pick a champ and take that lane, but rather jsut a button or marker or soemthign so that it shows our best laning areas.

for example, i went 8 straight games without a loss playing jungle, so let me put on my profile "prefered jungler" or soemthing, so that players can see that when we get into ranked to avoid arguments, or miscommunications.

the reasoning behind my asking for this is, as i said i had 8 games in a row winning and wrecking in the jungle, and had played 9/10 games for my placement this season. Get into game 10, call my lane, team supports it, and one player even offers to save my prefered champ, and does. Then the next player picking after him autolocks into jungle, leaving a reksai in lane, and my 2 backup best lanes taken. So im stuck playing my worst roles, ADC or supp, and long story short we lost, BADLY. somethign like 30-47, then had 4 dragons we had 1, and not one single person on our team had a positive score.

To add insult to injury our jungler couldnt land a good gank, and woudlnt engage in fights (wu kong) and ended up going 9/10. and despite my best efforts i still did badly in my position (supp) and went 1/10.

So i feel like having somehting on our accounts to mark our best/prefered lanes, with maybe some sort of statistic like... "75% winrate in X position" would help players find the best positions for everyone in ranked. At least until you get that one guy who just says screw it and does what he wants, but thats why theres a report function.

4 Comments

Kitten of Evil1 votes

I think the way it is currently demands more adaptable play, and encourages counterplay. A person might be good at only a couple champions in a certain role, or might play a champion (like Karma or Cassiopeia) who can go to any of several lanes. I might really enjoy playing a mid like Anivia or Azir, but when I see the enemy team pick Leblanc, or Talon, I might want to play a different champ in a different lane. Or if I'm good at playing a marksman top, and our team needs a tank.

Gubaguy1 votes

I dont see hwo this has anythign to do with prefered lanes... like at all.

SO you see someone going mid and they counter your best mid champ, you pref mind and take a diffrent mindlane champ to counter them.

You prefer top but they took your best toplane, take a diffrent toplane... How does a specific champ, or counterplay have anythign to do with your best lane? I have multiple junglers becuase im best in the jungle, not with any one champ. sure reksai is my best jungler, but if shes been taken, or abnned, or we need someone takier i take WW, or if we need someoen faster with more bursty damage i take Yi, or if we need a tank i take nautalis... champions dont impact my role in the least.

Kitten of Evil1 votes

True, I guess it depends on your gaming philosophy -- I like the current philosophy that you SHOULD be able to play as at least one champion in any lane your team needs... That way, you can combine your team's strengths to pick (and play) champions who do well against your opponents. It just seems very rigid to choose a particular lane before bans and picks.

Gubaguy1 votes

i can play any lane, but in order of playability:

  1. Jungle, win at least 90% of all games i jungle in, typically with high scores, around 20+ kills
  2. Top, winning about, i dunno, 75% of games? Depends on if im countered or not since i usualy only go top if im first or second pick
  3. Mid, start to get kinda bad here, i have a 50/50 chance of being bad, but i have a good rounded out selection of mid lane champs
  4. ADC, jsut... dont make me ADC, i have a bunch, and i suck with all of them, andive place tons of games in practice, and normals and still cant get good with ADC, i have issues last hitting, and cant harass to save my life, i also dont like being responsible for getting kills whena jungler shows up when i know ill get focused out once im in range.
  5. Support, easily my worst role, i spend about a month playing NOTHING but thresh, and for a while i thought i was good at it, then went into ranked and got wrecked, i also tried sona and failed, raka and failed, and even have morg and failed, and i dont like playing tanky supp because if i make a play my ADC usualy isnt around, and if i screw up a play its my fault we lsot the game, EVERY time. Hence, dont make me supp.

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