Troll Banning Your Team

v0xell··1 votes·837 views

Have you ever wanted to play something new in the meta, like when Ezreal jungle first started showing up, but one of your teammates banned it out because they didn't want you to play it or they thought you were trolling? This post is basically me arguing against players having the ability to ban champions their team is highlighting/hovering. I know there are some arguments to be made as to why it should be kept, but they aren't good enough, plain and simple, unless one of you know something I don't with this mechanic. Let me break this down.

You're an Ezreal jungle main. One of your teammates hates it when his teammates get the champ because the Ezs they get always suck and can't land anything, so they ban you out. That's not only troll, but unfair. Why should someone else have any control over what I play? Yes, I know people pick troll picks, but making so you ban their troll pick doesn't solve anything! They say they want to Soraka adc? Ban it, and they'll pick Janna adc. It does not matter. What does matter is the situation above, where someone doesn't like people in their elo playing a champ so they ban it regardless.

You can't stop a troll player with a single ban, but they can ruin your time with theirs. It's lame. Make highlighted champs unbannable by your team.

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RenownedWheat421 votes

Situation: Your last-pick top laner highlights GP. You cannot ban him. Enemy top laner first-picks GP. Now you cannot pick him.

Sub GP in with whatever fotm op pick there is and you've got your reason.

v0xell1 votes

This is not a good enough reason. Not only is that something up to chance, but it's not his fault that he's last pick. If that situation happens and he's a GP one trick, he might just dodge anyway. Or, you could. This hasn't convinced me.

RenownedWheat421 votes

Literally everything in your OP is up to chance as well. Find a better argument. Bans are there to remove the picks we do not want to deal with. Not gonna let an OP pick through pick/ban because someone on the latter end of my team wants it unless we've got good counters for it elsewhere.

XIVIVIX1 votes

I need to be able to ban out 50/50 picks and retarded hovers. It's part picking a winning team comp.

Your last pick jungler is hovering Yi when you have no CC, tanks or AP on your team already hovered. You ban Yi.

Yasuo is being hovered top lane when mid lane Zed is 2 picks head of him. You ban Yasuo.

The funny thing that sometimes happens, is your normal ban, like Orianna gets through because you had to ban out one of your monkey teammates and they win the game off the amazing Ori plays. Moral of the story, learn more champions and start putting priority in champion select to benefit your teamcomp/counter. One ticks are the worst players in league.

SwiftKitten882 votes

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I need to be able to ban out 50/50 picks and retarded hovers. It's part picking a winning team comp.

Your last pick jungler is hovering Yi when you have no CC, tanks or AP on your team already hovered. You ban Yi.

Yasuo is being hovered top lane when mid lane Zed is 2 picks head of him. You ban Yasuo.

The funny thing that sometimes happens, is your normal ban, like Orianna gets through because you had to ban out one of your monkey teammates and they win the game off the amazing Ori plays. Moral of the story, learn more champions and start putting priority in champion select to benefit your teamcomp/counter. One ticks are the worst players in league.

idk what elo you are in where you can afford to ban out a champion someone knows how to play. half the time even when they people GET the champ they want they cant play it.

would i love to make a team comp with synergy? sure.. that would be ideal... but id rather have a teammate on a champsion they at least have some idea how to play..

so unless it's a REALLY stupid pick

(like im going support morg, and i cant swap to another support becuase Lux and Blitzcrank are pick/banned) i will ban Kalista to stop my adc from picking her. becuase i dont EVER want to be pulled out of my ulti

v0xell2 votes

You make a good point. If the Yi one trick just knows Yi at, let's say plat lvl, and he's about bronze 1 everything else, you just trolled yourself by banning him out just because you want him to pick CC. And check this out, what if he just picks Twitch jg simply because you trolled him? Where's your CC now?

Banning a teammates champ has to have such a low success rate. It's not worth it.

v0xell2 votes

This is basically the same thing that was said above, but more drawn out. I'm still not convinced, but I do see where you are coming from. I get that you might need him to pick some CC because you have none, but why is that on him? Why didn't you pick CC? Why didn't your other lanes? If he's been highlighting Yi for the exact same amount of time you all highlighted your champs, then he shouldn't be stuck with that. If he has had Yi highlighted and you had no one, or someone else had no one, it's moreso on you or them to get what your team needs because you didn't declare your intent like the Yi player.

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