Increase the Champion Bans to 5

Khirgoth·May 4, 2017·2 votes·570 views

It's time to increase the number of bans to 5. With the advent of so many champs, there's no good reason not to give the entire team a shot to ban someone. There's a good deal of strategy that would come with the additional bans. Give each team member a chance to ban their arch-enemy or a team could work in concert to ice out the obvious picks for a given lane.

The con of the system would be adding the time to get through the champion select process.

There are ways that it can be mitigated first by lowering the ban time to 20 seconds. The banning process could also run from bottom to top and then champ select would go from top to bottom. It could also be done at random so that players have to pay attention all the way through rather than watching youtube waiting for their turn and timing out not noticing they should be picking.

5 Comments

0nyMay 4, 20171 votes

With so many problematic and frustrating champs these days I've wondered about going the extra mile and just giving everyone like two bans each. Would be a dirty fix for everyone's QQ threads about op champs too.

DunkinNoobsMay 4, 20171 votes

It's not quite right. While there are indeed a large number of champs, those champs have far different likelihoods of getting banned. Assassins and junglers get banned more than any other class of champion, and in the case of assassins, often get banned simply due to the frustration factor. Champs like Vel'koz, on the other hand, could have a 54% winrate and still never get banned even if there were 20 bans because he's simply not the kind of champ that people want to ban. People will ban the 47% winrate assassin before they ban the 54% winrate mage, and that shows a significant flaw in our banning system and is a very strong argument against increasing the number of bans.

DrCyanideMay 4, 20172 votes

Is it really a flaw that people want a less frustrating game?

Being tilted by a champion you hate and making dumb decisions because of it, causing you to fall further behind, is more likely to effect most players than whatever a champion's Plat+ win rate is.

10 bans is coming, like it or not.

DunkinNoobsMay 4, 20171 votes

If the playerbase wants a less frustrating game, they should start with themselves. I personally don't find assassins that frustrating most of the time; the champs I hate most are champs like Shen, TF, Galio, and Janna, but no one bans those champs.

KhirgothJun 9, 20171 votes

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