Why I Don't Want 10 Bans

Enter Yasuo.

I hate Yasuo just as much as the other guy, but with 10 bans, he'll never see the light of day. As much as I hate his kit or his tryhard playerbase, I wouldn't want to ruin someone's experience by completely shutting off access to their main because he's quite literally permabanned. And how many other champs will this affect? Will it even be possible to main Zed, Yasuo, Jhin, Blitzcrank, Illaoi, Caitlyn, Darius, Susan, Annie, Katarina, Riven, or (God forbid) Vayne? If your champ is FOTM or on the Riven List, you'll never be able to play them.

"Git gud" and "expand your champ roster" are the common responses, but some people have a fondness for their mains. Most people also don't have 8 top laners just in case, because they main support or ADC and they haven't invested in half the available top laners just so they can switch it up every five games. The last thing I want is to go jg for a game (I rarely play jg) and have all 3 or 4 jg champs I own get banned because I got lucky and they just happen to be FOTM. Heck, it's hard enough to collect all the champs specific to your position anyway if you care about runes.

"It will spread the crowd selection." A.) That's communism, and B.) maybe Sona's kit bores me and I'd rather be playing Janna. Or maybe I don't want to be another Lee Sin and Ivern fits the bill better. Or maybe Maokai doesn't have an interesting character design to me and I would rather be J4. Or maybe I just flat out suck at Lissandra and want to play Akali.

And "play blind pick" is not an argument. Blind pick is where the saltiest of salt is collected, and no one of any rank or skill plays it unless they're helping their friends who are new to League, or unless they want to get that free S for mastery 7 Master Yi.

I'm fine with 10 bans in the pro scene. I couldn't care less about that. But for the average player's normal draft or ranked games, it's not healthy. Please don't initiate this, Riot.