New champ select = much longer
I love the new look and props for the attempt, but the new champion select takes much longer than the original . I'll give you some of the reasons...
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- When someone fails to lock, it resets the queue. Any time saved by locking is completely wasted, and then some, when one person forgets to lock. Back into the queue you go. Not to mention the 6 minutes they have to waste for simply not clicking lock. That's a heavy punishment for something so trivial.
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- You can't lock in the champions you intend to play. In fact you don't even have to pick one. The only use this has is for trolls to ban your champion.
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- I'm not going to pretend to understand how the matchmaking works but I thought selecting support would give me a lower queue time, but it's just as long as before. I was getting about 1:15 for queue, which is nearly identical to the old select with support. Everything else was much higher.
P.S. This isn't related to the speed of the select but not being able to get any in depth champion information in queue is frustrating. You allow us to highlight over the summoner spells but come on, who doesn't know what the 9 summoner spells do?! I would imagine the 123 champions each with 4-5 skills would be more relevant. I have no idea why you no longer have the option to look at them but adding it back to some extent would be golden.