riot. if your planning voice communication a captain system would be a very good idea to help it

i love the idea of voice communication and i think it would massively increase the entertainment value of the game

however i think a small little addition would greatly improve the effectiveness / enjoyability of voice communication

add in a captain system. it really is just a easy way for people to determine their leader. heres what i came up with

1. in ranked champ select, every person (who opts in) has their winrate over last 20 games shown to their team. its a simple number near their name showing if they have, say, a 60% winrate over their last 20 games. this data lets players know who they want to vote as captain. if someone has less than 20 games or 10 captain games, the winrate still shows. also for captains winrate it will show as a number like "6/10" meaning you won 6 out of 10 captains games. or "0/2" meaning you won 0 out of 2 captains games. if you have no captain games, the winrate says "0/0". the captains winrate in champ select only shows last 10 captains games. but i guess players could also have a overall captains winrate in their profile that they could use as either an ego boost (lets be honest thats all it really is) or to let them know how good of a shotcaller they are for teams who are trying to find good shotcallers in masters/challenger

2. as a general rule, i am pretty sure the player on the team with the highest winrate in his last 20 games is probably the strongest person on the team and the best candidate on the team that people should trust to be leader. or someone with high captains winrate

3. in champ select, everyone has a button next to their name to be clicked for a team captain vote. everyone in champ select has 1 captain vote and can click that button to vote for someone if they want that person to be captain. they can vote for them self too

4. if someone gets 3 captain votes in champ select. a chat message appears in the champ select chat and says " meteos has been voted team captain. 3 teammates have expressed faith in meteos leadership ability. it is highly advised that everyone follows meteos shotcalling in game if you want to win. a team with 5 people following a captains leadership likely has a higher chance to win compared to a team with anarchy and no leadership. also in game a no confidence vote will be available. if 3 teammates vote no confidence in meteos then a message will appear showing that the team has lost faith in meteos as captain. at that point the team can use voicechat to pick a new captain or simply try to win without one"

5. a little icon appears near meteos name that only his allies can see in game, that indicates he is captain. dont want the enemy jungler camping your teams captain :) wait you cant camp meteos cuz hes jungle hehehe

6. and thats it. pretty simple. let players easily pick a captain for their game.

7. ingame there will be a vote at any time where you can type "/nc" in chat as a no confidence vote in your captain. at that point a VERY DIFFERENT FROM SURRENDER white looking box will appear (like the surrender box. but it looks very different so people know its a no confidence vote. possibly this box should appear on the left side of the screen to make it more obvious that its a no confidence vote and not a surrender vote) that says "a no confidence vote has been started to remove your captain. have you lost faith in meteos leadership ability. yes or no"

8. if 3 people on team vote "yes" to no confidence in meteos, then he stops being captain and a message appears and says "the team has lost faith in meteos as a leader. meteos is no longer captain. either use voice chat to decide a new captain. or try to win without one. goodluck and godspeed"

9. after a captain has been removed through no confidence vote, a new one cannot be created. just use voicechat to decide a new one, or try to win without one

10. if 3 people on team vote "no" to no confidence in meteos, a message appears and says "the team still has faith in meteos. he is still captain. it is highly advised that everyone follows meteos leadership. no one is forcing you to, but if you want to win, its probably the best idea. goodluck and godspeed"

11. oh and yes , meteos himself can vote no in the no confidence vote too. everyone (even the captains) can vote in the original champ select votes and the no confidence votes. because as long as 3 people on a team have faith in ONE PERSONS leadership, then that person should probably be leader since 3 out of 5 teammembers trust one persons leadership over everyone else on the team

12. oh and i think this would be good too. in champ select there should be 2 percentages near someones name. a "winrate over last 20 games" percentage. and a "captains winrate" which is "winrate over the last 10 games you have been voted captain" percentage. so people will see useful information for them to decide who to vote as leader. you will get to see someones "captain winrate" and someones game winrate over their last 20 games too

13. because these captain and game winrates are personal information that could make people feel insecure and make people feel judged, this captain system should probably only exist in ranked. ranked is highly competitive, and sure it allows one to be judged (someone might feel insecure about a low winrate being shown in champ select) but at the same time for people who are highly competitive, this information would probably be accepted and liked overall since it provides leadership in game.

14. WAIT. BOOM BOOM BABY. I JUST figured out a good solution to number 13. make it so people only have their winrates displayed in champ select if they OPT-IN as they queue. make a button you click next to queue launch that says "display your winrate and captains winrate to your team in champ select. this is done if you desire to be captain and wish to gain your teammates confidence"

15. captains winrate records all games where the team voted you captain in champ select. even if you are removed through no confidence, the win and loss still counts to your winrate

so there. that sounds like a good system . in champ select people will only be displaying their winrates if they desire and want to be captain. and then once inside champ select, the team can do their captain votes and pick a captain as i described above