The only purpose locking in serves is to let the game start a few seconds faster, but his never happens in blind pick, althughit does often result in frustration when people lock in after misreading chat and the like (or are just jerks, but there is no easy fix for that). Sure, let the game start early if everyone locks in, but let people unlock if they want.
Jbels1 votesSeems like this would help with chat misreads, but trolls could still unlock at the last second and pick something troll
MealReadytoEat1 votesYea, but that will happen regardless, they currently just don't lock in.
BeatzBoyFTW1 votesIn normals, why even bother locking in in the first place? Literally the only reason you lock in is auto/insta-locking so that nobody else can take your lane without even calling, and that's it, even though people have already called it first. And even if the original lane caller is persistent in wanting his lane back, the 4 excuses you'll hear from that auto/instalocker jerk are:
"I connected too slow, stop blaming me lawl" "I called it first dude." Proceeds to copy/edit/paste the chat "Premades, stfu" "I watched this in LCS and I wanna be an LCS-wannabe retard, so stfu and lemme instalock lolol"
I suggest Riot to just remove the Lock In bar altogether to end these frustration, and let the champion select be over in 1+ minute as usual. There, no more "Oh fuck, wrong masteries/runes/summoner spells" or "Oh fuck, wrong skin!".