We need a 4th ban

i would say each team should get 5 bans, each player getting one. that way no one can blame the team captain for not banning X OP FotM champion.

Honestly 5 bans per team would work well. There are currently 123 champions so 5 bans each team would still only remove 8% of the pool. More importantly though, people might actually see some different things played.

5 Bans, just copy what Dota does for picks/bans. It is by far the best way to do it out there right now.

I want to see different things played, but don't think bans is the way to do it. More bans will lead to players just banning counters. I would rather see Riot put any sort of emphasis on buffing weak champs.

Better idea might be just leave the bans as is and instead institute a weekly based Top 5 auto-ban.

Last week's top five bans are automatically banned the following week. And as it auto-adjusts on a weekly basis its a pressure valve, either you return to banning what was "OP" two weeks ago or you've figured out a higher priority ban.

This will result in rasing the min required number of champs for solo to 18. Wouldn't that be a bit bad?

With all the broken crap riot refuses to fix I think we need more bans.

Of the top of my head.

Zed,Fizz,Akali,Yasuo,Katarina (Well look at that, 3 out of 5 of these have no mana)

Seriously riot how much thought do you put into your champions.

I think the mentality against is, and I know you're not going to like this, LCS. More bans means banning a player's mains.

Then, 40 or so champions with 6 total bans, that sounds cool, alright then.

Now, 123 champions with 6 total bans, no no no. At least make it 10 total bans, I am nice enough not to ask according to the actual ratio, but really 10 total bans is about right for the time being.

Dota 2 only has 109 heroes (and at maximum, 112 once Arc Warden, Winter Wyvern and Pit Lord get released), they have 5 bans on each side.

League has 123 champions, but only 3 bans on each side.

I like the idea of one ban per player. You could even arrange the bans to be preset so champ select doesn't take as long.

More bans would also mean you would have to own more champions in order to play ranked (which I would love).

Currently you need 16 champs because that is the minimum number to avoid having actually 0 champs left to pick (6 champs banned and 10 champs selected per game).

Personally I would rather we get a formula or something instead of arbitrarily changing the number

I'm pretty sure Riot is against more bans because it creates a higher barrier of entry for new players into the competitive league environment(Not going to even talk about LCS because that's probably the biggest reason). Normal draft s usually practice for ranked draft and with 4-5 bans on each side new players would need to own 2-4 more champions just to play. Right now a player needs to own 16 champs to start. 6 to not be banned out, and 10 not to be picked out, if you're last pic of course.

However that still isn't fair to those of us who have been playing draft for longer. Ban's are useless, to me at least, if I'm forced to ban the same three champions for balance reasons ( and now) there ceases to be strategy in bans.

yeah league of legends needs a fourth maybe a fifth ban.. q.q RITO PLZ

I would definitely like to see more bans. It's annoying to face the same op champions so often. And yet my teammates still have so much trouble dealing with some of them and end up feeding them yet again.

I'd rather not wait another 30 seconds for somebody to figure out what to ban.

4 is fine, 5 would mean I need to buy more champs to play ranked :(