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Personal Champion Pool Bans in ARAM

GN W ZERO··1 votes·1,150 views

As someone who almost exclusively plays ARAM now, one feature that I feel Riot could implement without having to worry about reducing matchup diversity would be introducing bans to your own champion pool. Yes there are definitely some characters who excel in this game mode by virtue of their kits, but I would argue that if I am able to guarantee that I don't get a specific set of characters that I loathe playing then my overall experience will be consistently better regardless of what other people end up with.

Personally, I feel much more strongly about the character I get than the ones my teammates or enemies get rolled into, so I feel asking "which characters don't I want to play" would be a much more appealing way of helping to improve this mode over limiting the champion pool for everyone.

I don't know how feasible this approach would be, but it's something that I would definitely encourage the development team to at least consider.

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Minarde1 votes

Personally, I feel much more strongly about the character I get than the ones my teammates or enemies get rolled into

Complete opposite for me. To me, part of ARAM's appeal is testing how well I can play every champ. To see what my "average" skill level is. As such, what champion I get is vastly less important than what champions my enemies get, since some champions are obnoxiously annoying to face, whether due to their strength or just how commonly they show up.

GN W ZERO1 votes

The system that I detailed in my initial post wouldn't impede your ability to have every champ in the pool if that was what you wanted. The point I was trying to make was more in observance of Riot's reluctance to permanently introduce general champion pool bans to ARAM and instead offer an alternative. If they are concerned with maintaining champion diversity then leaving it to the players to designate which champions they do not want to play seems like it would be a feasible approach, as each player has different preferences and interests in regards to play styles. Someone who enjoys playing support for instance could choose to remove a number of assassins or marksmen for example. A byproduct of this system would potentially be less people dodging queue due to being stuck with a champion they don't like after exhausting all of their re-rolls. It likely wouldn't be a substantial reduction, but less dodging is always a good thing.

Minarde1 votes

I think personal blacklists suffer from similar problems as regular bans. Riot's reasoning against bans was essentially a) lower champ diversity and b) prevents fans from playing those champs. A blacklist would also lower champ diversity while simultaneously increasing the frequency of playing against annoying champs.

As such, I don't see how it'd be an improvement over regular bans or even the current "no bans at all" situation.

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