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@Riot-Ranked Champion Select Suggestion

Randoms Will Int·7/8/2015, 3:31:42 AM·16 votes·1,064 views

(Sorry for long post)

Currently, people in ranked champion select can completely troll everyone and get away with it, and there is absolutely no way to escape the situation other than dodging and losing lp or playing the game 4v5. This is a frequent occurrence that has been talked about in many posts, but nothing has been done about the situation.

There have been many posts about how to fix this, and two solutions really stuck out to me. The first of the two solutions is you get a free dodge after a certain amount of ranked games played. Although it is still possible to be matched with a troll you will have the opportunity to escape them every once and a while . Some people say that this system could be abused by people who got out picked by the enemy team, and that would cause ranked games to take longer to start. However, this would still be better than the alternative. Think of it as the lesser of two evils in what is ranked champion select.

A second solution would be a vote to dodge. This could be similar to surrender vote in champion select by making it so when four people vote to dodge the champion select would end. This solution usually gets countered by the same points as the last one, but it would take 4 out of 5 of the people willing to dodge for it to end, and that is much less likely of happening than one person abusing the system. Also, you could give a SMALL compensation to the other team (very small) with a notice informing them of what has happened and putting them back in que. Ovbiously, the team that voted to dodge would be put out of que. This vote could be an extra button that could be directly below the bar that says "It is YOUR turn to PICK." and it would notify your team that you want to dodge.

These two solutions have already been talked about but needed to be brought up again, as no action has been taken to stop the trolling in ranked champion select. Riot, please at least try to fix this, because it makes ranked unplayable for many players. It doesn't have to be one of the two solutions mentioned above, just please fix it.

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9 Comments

Noveon7/8/2015, 3:43:15 AM4 votes

I really like this idea.

Platinum Pussy7/8/2015, 3:47:40 AM3 votes

Yes.. the trolls are really beginning to become a catastrophe. HA

BurritoToGo7/8/2015, 3:38:29 AM3 votes

No pun intended

PedroBinGonzales7/8/2015, 5:25:34 AM3 votes

they need to do anything about it , anything >.>

The Lexer7/8/2015, 12:35:28 PM3 votes

"However, this would still be better than the alternative."

Yeah. People don't seem to understand this, even though it makes perfect sense.

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your mom a hoe7/8/2015, 3:54:46 AM3 votes

Yeah I highly agree with this

Mashtatoes7/8/2015, 6:51:31 PM2 votes

The first of the two solutions is you get a free dodge after a certain amount of ranked games played. Although it is still possible to be matched with a troll you will have the opportunity to escape them every once and a while . Some people say that this system could be abused by people who got out picked by the enemy team, and that would cause ranked games to take longer to start. However, this would still be better than the alternative. Think of it as the lesser of two evils in what is ranked champion select.

Definitely doable, but how many ranked games are we talking? It would have to be a relatively large number to prevent abuse of the system. Let's say... 15? For most active players that may be one per week or so. Which... I'm not sure that's all that different from the current system of losing 3 lp with no MMR loss and being locked out for a few minutes. I know trolls are no fun, but I just don't know this will really change things much. In fact the lockout may be a good thing--it's happened more than once that someone dodges and then someone else immediately gets back into queue and ends up teamed with the troll again.

A second solution would be a vote to dodge. This could be similar to surrender vote in champion select by making it so when four people vote to dodge the champion select would end. This solution usually gets countered by the same points as the last one, but it would take 4 out of 5 of the people willing to dodge for it to end, and that is much less likely of happening than one person abusing the system.

I like the idea behind this, but I worry it would become a "Get Out of Jail Free" Card whenever a team loses champ select--i.e., all those times you look at your team comp in despair compared to the other team's comp. Champ selection is an important part of the game (otherwise, why not just do blind pick?), and I'm not sure giving a team a free pass to dodge whenever they don't like how it went would be the best idea.