But forcing players to practice builds, champions, roles, strats in blind pick where it will be even more full of instalockers sounds like a really brilliant move
Edit: It needs to be said that I'm completely aware that Normal Draft will probably disappear in the near future for NA(or all regions) too.
warpenguin5555 votesSame. Forcing people to play blind pick is probably one of the worst things possible. Why don't they just remove that breeding ground of toxicity and trolling instead of getting rid of the queue that actually lets you play what you want. Another stupid decision by Riot that shows they don't really think too hard before they act.
GoldenMean2 votesNot positive but I think it's because the draft queue and the draft PROCESS takes too long.
I think what they need to do is allow you to prepick your champs, masteries, and runes (per champ), as well as prepick your roles.
So, I click on play now and it automatically loads a normal draft game and enters me into the queue as mid/support. I don't have to touch anything other than the big red button. When I arrive in the game it bans Zed if I'm allowed to ban, selects annie if I'm mid (according to my previous selection, or a preference tree or something) and Talon if I'm support, it also picks my summoners (according to my previous selection with that champ).
Everyone has 5 seconds to change their mind about their picks and bans but they don't have to touch any buttons, it just runs through the process quickly. This whole thing would take 80 seconds from the time you hit lobby to the time you're loading your instance, and you only have to touch an actual button like 10% of the time unless you play a heavily banned champ as first pick (but then it should auto-pick your second pick anyways).
Now, I would say run that system until Plat, and then go back to the start of last season or whatever and give everyone 30 seconds to do everything, but keep the auto masteries etc.
Reason being Plat++ should have some decent and conditional strats, but for bronzies it's an obstacle to actually playing the game.
edit: for instance, today I just played a game with annie mid but I had my adc runes/masteries/summoners from the last time. I don't want to EVER play AD annie. Like, literally I don't want those runes to be an option while I'm playing her.
Restless Slumber3 votesI just got an idea. Maybe they're trying to force people into playing flex queue. no sarcasm intended btw
Kr1sys3 votesI just got an idea. Maybe they're trying to force people into playing flex queue. no sarcasm intended btw
That'd be great, if it were unranked
Samflash31 votesWhat if they made a flex blind pick where you pick who/where you want to go,with a ban on who you don't want to face. System would match you with players who didn't ban your pick and once you start, you make your picks without seeing the enemy team.
Odinakos2 votesWell i found flex to be a decent replacement. I treat it like i did with normal draft. Try to win and improve but if i lose meh who cares?
Deam i fell right in the trap, right?
RocketRelm1 votesJust make sure to actively promote the culture that "Flex queue isn't really ranked, it's Norms With Rewards".
Getting that cultural ball rolling is what we really 'need'.
Odinakos1 votesHaha indeed i find little difference, mostly people tilting easier. Other than that i treat it exactly the same. Gotta say, the most relaxing funny ranked experience in my life! THX RITO(no i still gonna hold drudges for the removal of normal draft)!
RocketRelm1 votesI partly meant with statements such as actually stating "this isn't ranked, it's Normal Draft Flex Queue". Not just treating it like that kind of mode, but either being unashamedly open with your treatment of it as such or actively vocal about it.
But yeah, I completely agree.
Très Pauvre2 votesI'm not saying its great but when i play normals i prefer the blind pick... its just so much faster than drafting
*edit: you can also play champs that are generally banned
Oglaf1 votesThey'll come for you too. Their intention is to remove it everywhere, but for some banal reason they just did it on the overall shittiest servers.
Kr1sys1 votesThey'll come for you too. Their intention is to remove it everywhere, but for some banal reason they just did it on the overall shittiest servers.
Oh I know it will, they're trialing it in smaller pop locations before they roll it out everywhere. This isn't the first nor the last time they've gradually removed basic features from the game.
Valexfor1 votesI'm from euw and, while we still got it, I think it's bs to remove normal draft from any region... it's probably the best queue just after ranked...
Oglaf3 votesI'm from euw and, while we still got it, I think it's bs to remove normal draft from any region... it's probably the best queue just after ranked...
It is, and you know why? Because it is everything that makes Ranked good (the role selection, the picks and bans ect.) but in a more casual way.
It just blows my mind why they both decided to remove Draft, but also keep Blind over it. Blind is everything that makes LoL a toxic nightmare to play.
LGBTCute1 votesAh yes, a brilliant move to ensure NA > EU at Worlds next year, because EU won't be able to practice new strategies.
ChaoticPinecone2 votesAlmost 100% sure that the EU pros arent playing much normal draft to practice.
Ranked is their solo practice. Scrims are team practice. The LCS is their competition.
Odinakos1 votesAlso pros are in EUW, they dont bother with the peasants in EUNE.
hhaavviikk1 votesclearly more play blind pick then normal draft otherwise they wouldn't have removed it so so much for ''muh normal draft is bettur!''
Sukishoo1 voteswell it doesn't effect us, YET but they did say in their Ideal world they want to retire it in all regions... so they will remove it from all eventually.
Teklm1 votesOCE represent. Farewell Draft Pick, I played you once before you were taken away from me.
Kr1sys1 votesOCE represent. Farewell Draft Pick, I played you once before you were taken away from me.
Can't wait for new champs or reworks to be released where you can only either hope to instalock that champ you want to play first or deal with trying to pick him/her/it during a ranked game without any experience on the changes or playstyle it would bring.
