Will New Champ Select eventually apply to all queues?

Tahngarthor··1 votes·428 views

Wondering re: topic title. One of the things that has always bugged me about League is how there often isn't a unified experience across the entire game. It seems that Riot is so invested in eSports that they often forget about the casual and less competitive but steady players which in fact make up most of the playerbase of any multiplayer game. Often major core changes to the game take a really long time to propogate across all parts of the game. I hope that won't be the case this time. I feel like if they spent enough time testing this in PBE that it should have been released for the entire game, not just two queues.

So will the new champ select roll out across the entire game or will it only apply to SR normal draft and ranked draft for as far into the future as we can see? Also, will it be applying to fixed ranked teams or not?

(Someone tell me if I'm wrong here but I suspect the answer may be "no" because they will wait until their brand new PvP.net client is ready)

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Dreadlocks1 votes

Well their wont be a Team Builder next patch, so ur only other option is blind pick if you arnt playing draft. Or are you talking about Twisted Treeline/Dominion,

Tahngarthor1 votes

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Well their wont be a Team Builder next patch, so ur only other option is blind pick if you arnt playing draft. Or are you talking about Twisted Treeline/Dominion,

I'm talking about all game modes. Technically TT is under the umbrella of "Classic" mode, so I would hope it at least applies to that. But I'm talking about all modes. For ARAM it doesn't really matter that much obviously, but it would be good for it to share the new appearance of the champ select screen- because it would look really terrible if some modes have a different screen than others, when all game modes and queues had the same champ selection screen up until this point.

I'm also wondering if it will apply to draft-picked custom games.

the one ban per person makes sense for treeline, so I would hope so at least for ranked. I'd also love to see a blind pick with bans (I hate the phrase blind draft) come up for dominion, though unless they make it full draft, I'm not sure how they'd decide who gets the bans

Didn't the Poro King mode use a blind pick with bans?

Queen Scylla1 votes

the one ban per person makes sense for treeline, so I would hope so at least for ranked. I'd also love to see a blind pick with bans (I hate the phrase blind draft) come up for dominion, though unless they make it full draft, I'm not sure how they'd decide who gets the bans

Tahngarthor1 votes

Note: I realize that certain elements of the champ select may not be applicable to all pick modes. However, the appearance of champ select should be the same across the entire game. Consistency of experience is a virtue, imo.

Miku Lv991 votes

I'd think it'd apply to all of the draft picks. But the blind pick or just random pick (ARAM) are probably not going to be affected. So yes, you will still be able to play plain old blind pick on the rift, but I feel like it's going to become a lot less popular once the change happens.

Tahngarthor1 votes

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I'd think it'd apply to all of the draft picks. But the blind pick or just random pick (ARAM) are probably not going to be affected. So yes, you will still be able to play plain old blind pick on the rift, but I feel like it's going to become a lot less popular once the change happens.

Therein lies the reason the new format should be applied to all queues. I realize it can't happen right away, but there's no reason it can't apply. It should definitely be on Ranked 3v3 minus the role selection (since not all roles are played in a given game and it's premade teams only anyway).

All you need to do for it to apply to blind pick is skip the ban process. For simplicity of implementaiton's sake, they would probably leave the pick order in (but as has always been the case for blind pick, you don't see their picks and duplicate champs are allowed).

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