Just an Idea: Ranked "Teambuilder"

Arctic Heat·7/7/2015, 10:12:51 AM·3 votes·1,719 views

Hey Summoners, Hey Riot (if you read this),

I started to play LoL in S3 and started with rankeds this season. When the Teambuilder for Normal games was released, I thought it was the best thing, that could ever happen in LoL, since one of the most frustrating things were the fact, that people already started raging about who plays on which lane, before the game even started.

In SoloQ I mostly get the lane I want, as I'm a main jungler, but still, there are moments, when I'm last pick and my chances to get my lane drop to 1:4. If the case comes, that I have to play adc, it's over for 75% of my games, since I'm bad at this role. I even practised adc in around 40 games not becoming better at all, so I just gave up on this role and now I always gamble, that I get jungle or at least fill any other role except for adc. Now, many people will argue with "Don't play ranked if you can't play every role." - well, I don't care and I will simply ignore this and continue playing ranked the way I used to. There is no official rule, that you are forced to be able to play every role to be allowed to play ranked.

Now back to the topic: I have an idea to solve this problem. I'm aware, that you can't simply implement a teambuilder in ranked, since you have picks/bans and it's a matter of strategy whom you pick against whom, but my idea is a bit simpler: A pseudo-teambuilder: Instead of picking your role, your champion, your runes, etc. before even searching for a match, you can simply chose, which role you want to play, and nothing more. You can still communicate with your team in pick/ban phase, rotate, etc. but at least you don't have to argue about your lane anymore, which gives players a much more relaxed athmosphere in pick/ban phase.

And since I talk/write too much, I will stop now and hear, what people think about this idea.

3 Comments

BADxW0LF7/7/2015, 12:56:02 PM2 votes

...I wish people would do research before posting about stuff that is already in the works.

All Day Tay Tay7/7/2015, 12:08:40 PM1 votes

riot already said they are working on a way to do this, but are having some dificulties in execution

Ghiefelstein7/7/2015, 12:47:39 PM1 votes

Riot is already building a ranked teambuilder. I expect it to be ready in Season 6. They also shared some details. You chose two roles you want to play, matchmaking finds 5 people and announces their roles to everyone. Then pick/ban proceeds as normal.

In preparation you can practice one more role besides jungle, and you will be fine :)