Why not give everyone on each team 1 ban each

Randomonium·Aug 10, 2015·41 votes·2,190 views

Instead of the "team captain" getting 3 bans why not go through a ban phase where everyone gets one ban each. This would solve the 5 bans vs 3 bans issue and solve the problem of "team captains" who don't listen to their team and ban Yorick, Kassadin, Akali. Furthermore, it would cut down on the mindless ban chat and allow teams to focus on more important stuff like team comps and roles. And if people are worried about it taking too long just drop the time people have to ban to 15-20 seconds.

20 Comments

TurquoiseYoshiAug 10, 20158 votes

I really like this idea, but make it limited to Solo Queue. Being in team 5v5 would be a little overwhelming, and a team should be organized enough to have a specific ban strategy.

RandomoniumAug 13, 20151 votes

I think draft queue would be the right place to test it and then move it to solo ranked queue next. I agree it might need to be tweaked for team play.

TurquoiseYoshiAug 13, 20151 votes

A coordinated team should know exactly what they should ban, and what to pick early. It would also help for pro play.

ZeranaAug 10, 20157 votes

I agree, at least one problem champ for every role will be taken care of.

Vayne player doesn't feel like fighting a Caitlyn ? Have a ban

Janna knows the Vayne is derpy and can't handle Blitzcrank Have a ban

Cassiopeia Main can't stand the Veigar Have a ban

Riven player hates the Teemo? Have a ban

Theres no way anyone can lose with these changes. It forces players to have a variety of champs and play styles and can get some pretty cool team plays accomplished. Imagine if the teams ADC was a Trist main and asked for everyone to ban an adc. Would make the bot lane strats more interesting and have players be more flexible with comps. Would also make ranked teambuilder much better. You could just choose you ban ahead of time and never have to play against it.

nimabi69Aug 10, 20153 votes

agreed but they don't care

CardmantAug 10, 20151 votes

Agreed

Diananmen SquareAug 10, 20152 votes

ban Yorick, Kassadin, Akali

What's "Yorick"?

"Kassadin" is still a thing?

PS: It's a joke.

Samurai SosaAug 10, 20151 votes

Agreed

G01fanThomasAug 10, 20151 votes

O Hell Yes, That Would Be Awesome. Good Thinking Randomonium :)

HopeslayerAug 10, 20151 votes

every time i have suggested this i just get 10 trolls bashing the idea

mostly just idiots who dont like change

it helps cut down on the people who ban 3 just for their lane, then end up feeding anyway

CheeseyogerAug 11, 20151 votes

I really like how this could remove individual problem champs from each lane to help them flourish instead of the typical "ban 3 of what's OP" or even the somewhat more advanced "guess fairly randomly at what the other team could pick that would go against our briefly discussed team comp." Not to say current banning is bad, far from it, I think it's great. But I think this could be better.

Crowe StalkerAug 11, 20151 votes

I already suggested something to this effect. It was to RiotRepertoir's concern that 'allowing people to ban champions could have problems, like overlapping bans' or something to that effect, as though this system would be using Blind Pick for banning.

That said, this is still a good idea and deserves my upvote.

RandomoniumAug 13, 20151 votes

Yeah, it wouldn't work as a blind pick but it would be great as a draft pick. I know some people would complain it would take too long wich is why I recommended the time limit for each ban gets reduced.

AATTRROOXXAug 11, 20151 votes

I can explain exactly why this isn't a good idea. League is meant to support diversity. That's about it, but let's take it a bit deeper now.

League of Legends is meant to promote people playing champs they like, and being able to use a champion that fits their playstyle. This means that if your playstyle is more centered on mobile champs, and making high risk/high reward plays, you might never be able to play your favorite champs. Most people are inclined to ban champions that are annoying/frustrating to play against. Having 10 bans would mean that you could ban more of what countered you, but so could the enemy. If the enemy were smart, they could ban away half the free champion roster to limit players who get stuck in a role they aren't familiar with, or can't play without a specific champ. It would be utter chaos.

Taking the LCS into account as well, it would be a way to counter the entire team. Any OP picks would never see the light of day, and the enemy team could ban all of one player's champions, making them unviable.

TL;DR No

RandomoniumAug 13, 20151 votes

With a roster of over 125 champs banning 10 would not cause the problems you are describing. You'd still have over 90% of the champions to choose from. Most people who play ranked or draft pick have a pretty sizable champ pool so 10 bans really wouldn't hurt their selection.

As far as your LCS comment, that would make LCS way more interesting. It would be less about the top tier picks and more about what people could do with second tier champions. It would cause LCS to become much more diverse rather than the same champs over and over.

windwolf777Aug 11, 20151 votes

Maybe give us dota 2 pick ban order つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

RandomoniumAug 12, 20152 votes

I like the dota 2 pick ban order but you know they'd never do that.

windwolf777Aug 13, 20151 votes

Yeah....I can dream at least though

EndlessSorcererAug 13, 20151 votes

Because then players would never be able to pick a newly released or reworked champion and play them in ranked the day they come out.

There will always be some jerk like me who bans them for a week or two just to avoid having them in the game to avoid the people learning them.

In all seriousness, I legitimately hope they implement this at some point. It would help avoid people complaining about bans ("Why didn't you ban X?!? GG") and let people ban counters to their champion pool in their own lane.

SlashStrikerSep 5, 20151 votes

its just stupid these bans ban only newly balanced champions that lack of actual balance or for instance skarner 90% ban rate well obviously something wrong here elise 42% ban rate? why? lcs too good? mordekaiser? LCS again? why are these champions banned?! OMG imagine what will happen if Gragas is picked on LCS!

the more champion players ban the less skill they will gain to play this game i am 100000000% against more bans 250 gold is too much for upgrading your faking trinkets! you want more bans you seriously think banning more champions will make you better players? think again nubs! i had 10-2 vayne on enemy team and non of my team bought oracle lens item 3364 !