i miss team builder
i don't care about the wait times. at least everyone got the lane they wanted. and tbh, as a support main it was always an instant queue for me
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Even tho Team builder was a good idea ipotetically (being able to build up your teamcomp based around sinergy), it was a bad idea on pratice and will probably never come back due to different reason:
- Even tho you could not care about the long time queue, 90% of the playerbase didn't like it, this was due to the fact that noone liked support or jungle (just like nowadays) and everyone queue up for mid or top (i remenber that i went from 30+ min as sololane to 30 s as support, autofill has compensated this issue but also most other change too (support item overall better and satisfying, increased aggressive path of shield bot for making them fun to play as, buff to catcher such as thresh or naut, mage bot and new aggressive champ such as senna or pyke).
- Due to the fact that everyone queue up for mid or top, you will found mostly off meta pick on other lane or trollish champ because they wanted to play the game without queue time but they didn't take it seriusly (eg yasuo support and jungle was pretty common) and this caused an overall reduction of your team sanity.
- If u picked an off role pick on a popular role, u ended up waiting even longer than people that queue up with a meta pick or a filling pick (eg ap into a full ad comp) and also would end up into strange build comp (no supp duo mid for example or all mid)
- The cool idea of building your teamcomp was overall good but due to the difficulty of finding some player and especially the fact that u don't know who you are playing against made the initial idea not working. If i would try to build an hook team comp but the enemy pick up amumu,leona,morgana for example, if they were good enough, my team comp would never work and i would be stuck into a game that i wasn't playing. This was fix on draft pick with ban and the fact that u can know who you are playing against. Point 1 could easily fix by putting an autofill system on it but the only reason that people want this mode again was because u had no autofill. If draft had no autofill, the mode would be liked much more in term of design but will be also hated more because long queue would be back.
I have been saying for years that Team Builder just needs to replace Blind Pick
the real reason why team builder was removed is because it didn't allow for a banning phase