What caused people to play the meta in Blind Pick?

Cyndikate·Jun 10, 2017·1 votes·558 views

I haven't played league of legends for a very long time. I'd say since season 3. Please forgive this potentially dumb question.

When I last played the game, blind pick was when people just picked whatever they wanted with no regard to the meta or team comp. Now when I came back, people are now calling their roles and locking in Teemo just triggers the rest of the team. Keep in mind it's blind pick. I mean, back in the day, no one cared, except the occasional jerk who would have gotten the experience he wanted playing draft or ranked.

What has changed to the game to make this happen? What got people focused on forming a team comp in blind pick, instead of just picking whatever like a while back. Why couldn't they go to draft mode?

Personally I don't find it a big deal, but I'm extremely curious.

9 Comments

HallbusterJun 10, 20172 votes

Coming from a player that has played more blind pick in ranked, I'm not that concerned about team composition. It's the feeding that gets to me, and people who call roles they are horrible at. The 0/9 mid should have atlest practiced their champion in a bot game first. Now we lost because I didn't get to carry as Vladimir.

EedatJun 10, 20172 votes

There is no blind pick ranked

HallbusterJun 11, 20171 votes

My typos over the roof thanks to auto correct, change in to than.

EedatJun 11, 20171 votes

Then wtf does your comment have anything to do with this thread?

HallbusterJun 11, 20171 votes

Alright, I made things confusing so I'll get my point across in one sentence. I don't usually care what the team comp is for blind pick, I also don't care if you're new to a champion, but I will get pretty frustrated if you call a role you know you're not good at, and then refuse it to give it to anyone else, including me. When I call mid/top I know I will be winning my lane 90% of the time.

DoozkuJun 10, 20171 votes

The playerbase became less casual, and more hardcore, and the game moved more and more focus on LCS, and now suddenly everyone wants to be a tryhard and play to win. TBH, if you want, you can still pick stuff like Teemo and what not. Just some people spoil everything and will flame you for no reason (although I don't think people generally consider Teemo as a troll pick, just really annoying.)