Can we have a "favorite champions" list of some kind in lobby?

EnvyDragon··56 votes·2,369 views

TL;DR: Sometimes you need to pick a champion for a case you aren't prepared for. It would be nice to be able to produce a list of, say, 10 champions max, that you could filter to with the click of a button. There are something like 123 champions in the game, and for someone who doesn't really have a main, it can be frustrating to hunt through for someone who suits the situation best when you're on a schedule.

I had a weird case today where I called fill... waited until the 30-seconds-left mark when nobody called anything, and said support... only for someone to instalock Janna bot with 10 seconds remaining. Since NOBODY called their roles but me, I had to figure out what was left (turned out to be mid, my worst role) and grab an appropriate champion in only 10 seconds... and I ended up panic-picking Vi because I forgot what midlane champs I knew how to play. I'm not a very good Vi.

So I ended up Vi vs Katarina. That was a thing.

Janna took heal and clarity, claiming to be "new" despite being level 30 with 65 normal wins, and refused to buy sightstone until someone explained what it did. "Because I'm new," she said. Fucking trolls. "What are the red and blue buff timers? I'm new, I don't know. Guys listen. Listen to me I'm new. Tell me." Stopping to type midfight. "Explain buff timers."

Anyway, the game might not have gone so disastrously if I'd picked somebody I'm a bit more adept with - Pantheon or Twitch, maybe - but with such a huge number of champions currently in the game, I didn't have time to go through and hunt for someone specific.

Is there any chance we can have a customization option implemented that lets us pick a list of favorites?

29 Comments

Zirzon12 votes

This is very similar to what I hope they do. Instead of a single "favorite" list, I'd like to be able to save multiple lists, with one list for every role. This is the number one feature I want added to the game.

I almost always just "fill" whatever role the other people on my team don't want. Every so often I will completely space who I like playing in that role, especially if I have to make a quick decision. More commonly I choose someone that works just fine, but then remember another champ that would have better fit our comp/counter the other team that I also enjoy to play. I would have much more champ variety in games if I could simply look at a list of only my champs for the role I want.

Please add a categorizing system to champ select Riot, and I shall be forever thankful.

Darastrix4 votes

Riot please, I don't like having to search supports and have ones that I'm not comfortable with, by adding tabs people can also have a "Top Bans tab" to make banning easier.

Zirzon3 votes

Oh yeah! A tab to save your favorite bans would be great too! I always end up forgetting someone. I really hate ending up as the person that has to ban, but being able to save a list of priority bans would help a lot.

ModKnightsKemplar5 votes

Your post is a bit rambly, but I can absolutely be on board with the overall thought. I have a similar issue, especially in lanes I don't play often.

EnvyDragon1 votes

Yeah... I was mostly still raging about the game that happened several hours ago. You know how people ask "u mad" when you are very clearly mad, and it doesn't help shit at all? That's my weakness.

I'll edit the post to summarize my point better, I guess - I'm willing to fill any role, and a lot of the fun of playing for me comes from playing a variety of different champions, but in a pinch I'd love to be able to say "pick one of these" instead of essentially picking randomly.

ModKnightsKemplar1 votes

Yeah, I feel ya. People can be real dumb. But your idea is essentially a good one, even if people choose to nitpick the other things you said. Sounds like you caught my meaning perfectly! :)

Spacesuit Spiff3 votes

Better yet, let your allies see it by mousing over you.

EnvyDragon1 votes

Oh heck yes, this!! This would be a GREAT reason to do this!

goldensilver092 votes

Did you hear about Team builder?

EnvyDragon2 votes

I play teambuilder 90% of the time, but my brother was available for a game or two today for a brief period so rather than wait 20 minutes to find a team, I just suggested we do blindpick.

(I'm a support/jungle main so I tend to find teambuilder games more-or-less instantly, but when you form a game you have to wait for all the "rare" roles - and my brother wanted to go mid.)

Fewtas1 votes

I understand your pain, I truly do. I continuely had peeps autolock on me until I said screw it and meant to team builder.

MPendragon1 votes

Not trolling, but your favourite list of champions would be the champions you know how to play best. The champions you know how to play best, would be the ones you play most often. Thus you would already know the locations, of said champions.

That's like finding the measurement of one side of a rectangle when you already know what the square footage is. You already know what the square footage is, because you've already measured both sides of the rectangle.

"The Rock" Eyebrows?

EnvyDragon3 votes

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Not trolling, but your favourite list of champions would be the champions you know how to play best. The champions you know how to play best, would be the ones you play most often. Thus you would already know the locations, of said champions.

That's like finding the measurement of one side of a rectangle when you already know what the square footage is. You already know what the square footage is, because you've already measured both sides of the rectangle.

"The Rock" Eyebrows?

Mid is my worst role. I don't have anyone I think of as a "mid" champion - if I had a list of 10 or so champs I play often, I could go okay, he's mid, she's mid, he's a weird mid but I rock as him so I can make it work...

Which is why I ended up panic-picking Vi. I went "OH CRAP uhhhh okay who goes mid, um, mages, but I'm a bad mid so I want to roam, who ganks well, um, VI GANKS WELL, LET'S GO VI"

prolly bad1 votes

If you download elophant it has this very feature in it.
Very handy. Shows you the most played champion/role(s) of everyone on your team, and then goes into detail more about who is most experienced in every lane.

watbesh1 votes

I wish they'll soon do something like this. 'List them up on a sheet of paper' is the best solution as far as I know, but it's still too terrible to try.

But when I think of 'favorite champs', 10 champs is probably not enough for some people... Sometimes you get forced to play in a position you don't want. Taking this into consideration, 10 champs in total means you can only have 2 favorites per position (or 6 for your main and 1 each for the rest).

...And while it's not very likely, if you can play almost every champion, and you want to counter enemy champ(s) while getting what your team needs (if I remember correctly, even Team Builder doesn't allow this), you would even want a nice set of check-boxes for both positions and roles.

Champion Skin1 votes

Well they could just add some sort of tag system like you can type in Tank or Marksman and get up all the champions with those tags and it would be nice if you could have custom tags like type in go and you get all the champions you have tagged with that

RogueWill1 votes

I used to have the same problem as you until I reduced my pool party. Now on the lanes I'm not good at I only play 2 champs per lane. I have gotten so good at them that I can even over come counters and still come on top. But a list would be nice so I don't have to type the name everytime xD. I play around 7 diferent champs on my 2 main roles so memorizing the position of ever one of my 20 champ pool is sorta hard.

Civil Dawn1 votes

I really wanna make my own catagories like in Item Sets.

So I can make one for Supports, ADCs, Mids, then other things like CC, Engage, Poke, etc. It would be so nice, considering you have to figure out counters and comps in only 50 seconds.

Glamazon1 votes

Ironically, I just made a spreadsheet with the champs I want to focus on in each role. Pop it up whenever I'm picking.

Joe Dredd1 votes

lol vi can shit on kat

EnvyDragon4 votes

Not when I'm this shitty at midlane she can't.

YOU BEEN WARNED1 votes

Don't give the favorites a cap please, why would you hinder a feature that way when you can simply cap yourself to 10 champions?

7ha7guy7771 votes

i had something similar happen where i was duoing with a friend (thankfully) and i didn't realize mid was already called because i forgot varus mid was a thing and we needed a support until after i had already locked in as Malzahar (was during the Zed free week). i wound up as Malzahar support. it was surprisingly effective. normally we do teambuilder together but he insisted on doing blind pick. i try to avoid blind pick because things like that happen.

tl;dr people need to call roles quicker in blind pick or the timer needs to be longer if we don't add some idea like yours implemented

DarkenedSoul4201 votes

65 wins is still preyty new..cut ppl some slack, there is alot to learn in this game

EnvyDragon1 votes

There is, but level 30 is the point at which you can go into ranked. Considering that you can't even go into PVP until something like level 5 (if I remember correctly), and 65 only counts normal games won, this player probably had close to 150 games, if not more... and by that point I stop accepting "I don't know what sightstone is."

Most of it is just the way chat went, and how this player never let a moment pass without saying "I'm new" in some way or another. New players don't try that hard to convince people they're new.

PrismalDawn1 votes

There's a search bar for a reason you know. O.o But it would be cool to have categorization in champ select I guess.

Zuanake1 votes

I can't see any comments..

agbudar1 votes

this sorta s.h.i.t!!! is what happens to me far to often cant upvote this enough

well deserved +1 OP

Water of Eden1 votes

Took me a bad experience of playing ADC Nidalee to realize there's a search bar at the top right corner of the champion select screen. Oh, and you should know all lanes before even attempting ranked. Just 2-3 champions at the minimum.

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