It's Easier To Win By Banning Out my Team
I am 100% serious with this post. There is no sarcasm. I have had better results on climbing these past few days by banning out champions on my team than by banning any "op" champion that I might not want to play against. First of all, I don't ban my team's champions out of spite, I ban it using logic and statistics. One of the red flags I look at is if my team hovers a super low win rate champion (this includes Yuumi, Azir, Irelia, Aatrox, Akali, and even Ezreal, with a few others) I will immediately look them up on op.gg. I don't immediately ban out because first of all, I understand that the champion may have a low win rate, but they might be good at the champion, as well as the fact that they might be a Smurf. I look at their match history and win rate with the champion and then use that to determine if I will ban out their champion. For example, I had a person hover Yuumi, that had played Yuumi for the past 5 games for the first time with a 0% win rate and 10+ deaths each game. I immediately banned out their Yuumi and they chose a different support and performed much better than their past 5, 10+ death, Yuumi games. Meanwhile, I see that my Irelia is actually really good and has a 55% win rate then I don't ban it. My reasoning behind this is that there isn't a guarantee someone on the enemy team will pick an "op" hard to play against champion, but there is a guarantee my team will pick a bad champion and feed if I don't ban it out. I'm sorry that this sounds really toxic to you guys but it's been so much more effective in helping me climb. Bad team mates have always felt like a bigger factor in losing than "op" enemy champions, and this strategy has helped me win more games.
unless someone intends to pick him.