Why doesn't anyone Declare their champion?

Because if I plan on playing something like Teemo, or Gnar ADC, or GP ADC, or Poppy support, or anything weird or "non-meta," people ban it.

usually i wait to see what the enemy team picks first

I too would like to know if no one plans to play any champions with CC and have to pick a CC Tank.

Omg Bananajamana omg <3

Anyways, the reason I personally don't declare my champion is because of how frequently people will then ban that champion or take them before me just to spite me for whatever reason. Idk, I just love Karma too much to take the risk :p

cause when u do and u get a dodge and then insta reque and not have the same team then they knnow what u want to play and it gets banned

I always put the champ I intend to play in, but sometimes I'll change it depending on the enemy team comp and/or what my ADC picks.

because its laggy as hell and only drops me in with two seconds to pick.

Why don't I declare my champ?

BECAUSE I WANT TO PLAY TEEMO!!!!! (rimshot)

so my team doesnt ban my champion

so the enemy team doesn't see who i intended to go when the screen pops

people sometimes ban other peoples declared champs because "noob champ"/"troll"/ETC

Cause there are a lot of trolls out there who like to ban anything, and thus players stopped using it a lot after it came out.

because the trolls? duh because if some asshole bans my champ I have to feed.

Also if somebody ends up dodging the queue, the enemy team could do a target ban (obviously pending ELOs).

I hover teemo support so that I can identify if there's going to be a tilted %%%%bag who will flood the chat with rage. Dodging is less elo lost than the game.

Because my pick depends on both enemy picks and how my team is looking in ad/ap/tankage.

Too many people declaring and sticking to it regardless of pick order is how you get full ad teams.

People either ban out pick intents, or prefer waiting for enemy to pick first.

people will always ban it. or pick something you don't want them to pick that "goes with it"

I don't because normally I'm support and need to fill in whatever position my team isn't fulling. No tank, guess I'll play Braum/Naut/Thresh. All AD team, support Brand it is.

I always declare if I'm mid because I only really play Ahri. I want to make sure my team doesn't ban it on me.

I almost never declare if I'm top lane until I know what I'm going to play. Which basically means I'll only declare before my pick if the enemy top laner picks. Sometimes I would hover my options (try to subtly tell the team I may go Quinn so that 3 adc strategy so far really sucks for me) but that never seemed to work. It seems most players don't care about team comp - they want to play what they want to play. It's unfortunate, because I get counterpicked top lane often. When I do get the chance to counterpick I'd like to use it...

Because if I call Shen they'll automatically assume Shen top, even though Shen top is garbage tier right now until he gets those buffs.

Sometimes, I don't know what I'm going to play up until it's my turn to pick. I do use pick intent, but mostly just to dick around. If I am serious about pick intent, I just use it to hover champs I'm considering.

I don't ever go into a game knowing what I am going to play.

Because I get trolls who see me playing something, usually perfectly meta and they ban it with the intention of irritating me.