Can we -please- implement a minimum of games played on new/reworked champions for ranked?

Bionic Avian·6/12/2019, 10:56:55 PM·1 votes·1,029 views

I'm not saying you have to be mastery 7 on them, but I would really like to not get trolled out of a ranked queue because someone gets confrontational over playing a new champion / rework that's likely to get banned.

I just had to dodge a queue because our team was held hostage by someone who was going to troll, and although 3lp isn't bad it's still frustrating that:

A) Nothing can be done about people who hold champion selects hostage and B) People go into ranked with a new champion that they've NEVER played before, causing their teammates to be immediately frustrated.

Please, Riot. This really does create a toxic competitive environment for the game, especially for someone who just wants to play ranked without worrying about someone on either team trolling because they didn't get the new champion. Overwatch does this and it's nice because it provides some buffer time so that a new hero doesn't ruin the next week's worth of games for a lot of people, and it effectively makes it to where people go into the unlocking time with a better understanding of the hero and their strengths / weaknesses.

4 Comments

demonicthomas6/12/2019, 11:36:44 PM1 votes

Thats stupid, you gotta think people can play them in PBE, hell, they could have gotten really damn good from them off PBE, damage numbers might have changed, but general mechanics would have not, there for, the person you are referring to may have had a ass load of practice on morde in PBE, and looking to abuse his, currently, over tuned Q and E damage for easer Lane and LP gain.

TL:DR If someone is hovering a champion and YOU ban them, you should be held accountable as a troll, and responsible if they decide to int, after all, in this scenario YOU are the asshole.

If the enemy team picks/bans the champion said person is hovering, and they troll or int, they they are the assholes, however.

Xavanic6/13/2019, 12:05:18 AM1 votes

only if we prevent them from being banned in normal draft for the first week