Does anyone actually like the New Draft Mode? Cause I loved it

I really never had a single problem with team builder, aside from somewhat longer waits due to waiting for a support. I really really really like the new champ select, and it's great as the new draft pick, they did a superb job with it.

Here's the thing though, I never played draft pick before. I only play as much ranked each season as it takes to secure my border for another season. I don't like waiting for bans, and I don't like being pigeonholed into support because that's always going to be my secondary role, if not my primary. If I feel like playing support, great, I love playing Leona and Janna and I've got no problem with it. But just a few days ago, I picked Elise up again and had a blast playing her in the jungle, and I was hoping to get mastery with her sometime soon. It feels like my ability to choose exactly what I want to play, and where has been stripped from me. No more grinding mastery, and no more having teams that actually want you on their team because they chose you . Not the matchmaking.

I don't want to play ranked-adjacent in my free time, hoping that I get picked to play something other than support, I don't want to have teammates who are going to bitch to me about picking a more meta jungler, and I _really _ don't want to be punished for leaving a team of people who I can tell immediately that I absolutely do not want to play with. Team Builder was my answer to these problems. I'll be honest, it was news to me when I found out that team builder was a minority pick when it came to queue picks. I thought nobody played blind pick anymore because I can't imagine why you would choose blind pick over Team Builder. I guess that's just an opinion based thing.

I like that Riot is trying, I guess. I love their game (most of the time), but when they roll something new out that's supposed to "fix" all these problems that were never really problems for me, and then throw one of my favorite game types out the window, it feels a bit like I'm being cheated. Call me a filthy casual, but I like being on a Katarina kick and playing her five games in a row if I want to, without anyone saying a single word. But at the end of the day, if TB is gone for good, I'll play draft, I'll just have to say goodbye to having the freedom of playing whatever I want whenever I want. Like every other thing that riot has done that felt like the end of the world upon it's initial release (ahem ) , I'll persevere and hope that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Or maybe I'll finally git gud.

It sort of just feels like fixing something that didn't need fixing, you know? Sorry for this novel, lmao, I just have lots of things to say.

I'll miss it sure, but i'll get over it. Team builder, just like the new champ select, had it's own flaws. I think people just really hate the new one because of some bugs at release. Once everything get sorted out properly, people will start to see the potential in the new champ select.

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Are you seriously trying to invalidate other peoples opinions because they don't align with your own opinion?

Rather I am seriously pointing out that there are many many people on these boards who either outright troll to get reactions out of people or have an irrational dislike of Riot in general and look for any reason to talk down any decision they make. This is on top of the amount of people who come to the boards to whine and find an excuse anytime something happens to them in game.

There are of course people with seriously and legitimate concerns and complaints (I personally wish they keep the teambuilder ability to guarantee being able to play a specific champ in a specific lane in normal blinds), but the vast majority of people here just bitch for the sake of bitching and talk way too pessimistically (I for example choose to believe that Riot will hear the need to have a teambuilder esque ability to pick a champ in normals and will consider that when they adapt New Champ Select to blind pick later on).

And yes, your opinion is invalid if you decide to state it as a fact and back up that 'fact' with nothing (ie: 'I hate new champ select because Riot isn't going to punish people who troll' and such nonsense).

Duo queue was bad enough, now Dynamic Matchmaking allows for any sized group

It completely changes the game. Not only is it frustrating that if you want to play 'solo' queue you're probably going to be lumped in with a premade, it also encourages abusive strategies that only premades can pull off while solo queuers just get dumped on.

It also changes the metrics of the system, solo queue rank means so much less when there are excessive numbers of ways to cheese your way to a higher rank. While a true solo queue Diamond player had to climb with solo queue game sense and mechanics, a 'premade' Diamond player can easily cheese his way up the ladder with a coordinated group which is pretty damn unfair because now the second Diamond player has a boosted 'solo queue' rank even though the skills and strategies he used to get there aren't really part of solo queue.

I'm somewhat speaking out of experience because before they changed it in Heroes of the Storm, I just played with a premade 3 man that abused the ladder system so that I'd gain a bunch of points for a win and lose almost nothing which allowed me to climb to mid masters even with mediocre skill. I'd imagine similar strategies are possible in LoL now.