Normal games should allow dodging in Champ select.

The Ecdysiast·Nov 16, 2017·1 votes·250 views

There should be no punishment for dodging champion select in a normal game. Unlike in ranked, there is no reason a player should be forced to continue when the champion they wanted was stolen or banned, or their allies are obviously intending to troll.

An additional half-second wait for everyone else (because that's how short it is when a group was already found and someone dodges) is an insignificantly small price to pay compared to the length of a no-fun game.

3 Comments

Timethief49Nov 16, 20173 votes

You mean delete normalgames? Cause this will get the quetimes to like an hour.

QuephaNov 16, 20173 votes

Good luck ever starting a match when a new champ comes out.

BubblyRainbowsNov 16, 20173 votes

I disagree. With autofill, people who one-trick hated champions, and all the other things that people could potentially get annoyed about in champ select, unrestricted dodges are a HORRIBLE idea. It happens too much as it is. I don't like sitting in queue for 2 minutes, then spending 1 minute banning, another minute picking champs, only to have someone dodge at that point, wasting 4 minutes of my time so that I can do it all over again. Without some penalty for dodging, most people would never, ever get out of champion select.

Won't give me the role I want? Dodge. Time wasted. Back in queue. Someone banned the champ I wanted. Dodge. Time Wasted. Back in queue. I was autofilled. Dodge. Back in queue. Ugh. Toxic enemy team comp. Dodge. Back in queue.

Right now, people actually get penalized for dodging and I've still had instances where the repeated dodges meant I went through champ select five or six times before I finally got into a game, meaning I spent 30 minutes just trying to START a game that then ended in under 25 minutes. I like the dodge penalties. I actually think they should be increased.

If people don't want to be autofilled, or don't want their champion banned, they can play Blind Pick. That's what it's for. Draft has bans and pick orders for a reason.