the ban phase should be about which champs counter who i want to play

Darius destroys Malphite. If he loses that matchup, even with no experience, he deserves the loss.

You would legit have people that banned .

Welcome to our community lol.

my main problem with this is how it might play out. Ideally, we could have all 10 players pick their ban simultaneously, however, duplicate bans seems to prevent that. So the answer would be to go 1 by 1, and, idk about y'all but ban phase often takes long enough. Factor in dodges which will most likely become more prevalent given 10 bans (i.e. more likely that the champs people want to play will be banned, hence more likely to dodge all things equal...) and pick/ban phase becomes so time consuming :/

the other thing i worry is that if each player has 1 ban, each could just ban their counter, however, this could make for some interesting picks and compositions so actually this aspect of having 10 bans intrigues me.

so yeah, other than that first point (where 10 bans would significantly extend the duration of pick/ban phase), it would be a welcome change. Especially since there are dozens more champions than originally, and there seem to be more OP picks.

No never if 10 bans are not enough then what the hell is riot doing having half the champions useless, OH FUCKEN WAIT.

10 is absolutely enough. I can ban some broken champs and at least one champ that counters who I wanna play as a first pick, and maybe ban a counter for our top laner

"Our vaunted professional scene sucks too hard to widen their champion pools"

Target banning someone like that in Dota would lose you the game at a high level almost immediately. I have a hard time believing that leagues pro scene is so weak compared to the dota scene that they actually fear this.

But then again, Koreans get dumpstered in Dota, maybe Rito wants to play to their strengths?

Then I am very sorry that half your mains happen to be FOTM, I recommend playing team builder until the meta shifts. For everyone else who doesn't exclusively play , , , , , , , , , this would be a really positive change though.

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I want to know when all Yasuos started building TriForce. I remember that no one did that, and then a few months ago, it seems like every Yasuo builds TF 2nd or third item. What caused this?

First answer: Because it's the most slot efficient way to reach 100% crit if you don't want to run crit runes. Second (and real) reason: Bjergsen started doing it that way on stream.

Tornado changed to apply on hit

He's just a solid counterpick to the current mid meta. The Top 5 mid laners played are , and he counters the other 4. Once assassin mids are back in vogue, Yasuo will go back to being Feedsuo for most people.

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''viegar'' is a counterpick. He is just the current QQ champion of the boards. He is supposed to do good against the currently most popular AP champions like . People arent counterpicking, safe picking or abusing his GLARING weaknesses ingame.

And Yasuo is very ban worthy if only for the fact people can pick a knock up comp and dominate Team fights with 2 clicks. .

Riven is a complete broken shit if you dont pick the latest FotM of toplane .

the fact that a lvl 8 is trying to argue with me about anything is actually very amusing to me. Even if that's a smurf there's no way your anything greater than silver. Veigar is not "just the current QQ champion of the boards", he's broken af and easily one the most ban-able champions.

You do realize that Veigar has a higher ban rate than Yasuo right??? You wanna talk about GLARING weaknesses? How about that Yasuo is very gankable in lane, even more so than Veigar who doesnt have a single mobility ability? Or that the support just has to exhaust yasuo and effectively neuter him? if you're losing teamfights because of a certain wombo combo started from a ult, maybe you and your shitty teams should avoid clumping up?

And I'll be honest here, that last sentence had me laughing. You can beat riven with way more than just garen, dari, and fiora. Perhaps you just got outplayed?

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Neither is Veigar. I laugh up a storm whenever I see him banned. He is one of the easiest champions to counter, and people are too busy complaining about his sudden spike in popularity that they forget to actually figure out how to deal with him.

!!!!!!! WHAT??! Veigar is very easily one of the most broken champions right now. All he has to do is farm in the lane phase with his q and play safe. he easily sets up ganks with his e, literally the only he needs to do is just farm and wait for the jungler to gank, and press e.

I fuckin hate it when people blame it all on a sudden spike in popularity without perhaps thinking that just maybe there is a REASON for it. its cause he's op as fuck.

I rape just about anything in the mid lane as Veigar. Even when I lose the game as Veigar, I still go incredibly positive. He got popular because he's very reliable now and scales into the late game with only three items.