When is team builder going to be in ranked?

Arch Mage Magnus··3 votes·269 views

Riot prides itself on the abilities of a team. The problem is we have about 4 mins to get to know eachother, understand eachothers strengths and weaknesses, and the majority of that time is bitching and complaining about who to ban, and who gets what lane.

Since this is suppose to be a team game, why can't we use teambuilder for ranked? This allows us to introduce ourselves as players, find the correct champ types that work together, and make sure everyone is on the same page before someone decides it's better to dodge and lose lp. You don't even necessarily have to pick champs and bans at this stage. Just a meet and greet for however long you want before everyone decides to ready up to the ban and select phase. At least at this point you can take the already rushed time to move champs around if need be depending on the bans.

I'm tired of joining a ranked lobby just to have people troll, and the only option is to dodge. I have such a limited amount of time to chat with my team, I rarely even bother because most won't pay attention, or there just isn't enough time to get the points across. I'm also not saying you won't get the idiots that will play it all nice and fun until the ban / pick phase starts to then start trolling, but at least it's a start.

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JAGMAG1 votes

part of the reason is it would take allot of fixing from its current state to make it viable for ranked like it wouldn't allow you to kick everyone you come across who you dont like and some how you would have to assign a team captain to determine pics and bans before the teams are qued up it would just take allot of extra work to make it work they might one day but not anytime soon plus team builder que times are awful

Xonra1 votes

They are working on it, as I've seen it mentioned by rioters a few times the past few months, but working on it could mean any sort of timeframe really. Regardless, they are at least working on it, and I saw one of the Riot members say something like, it will be similar to current team builder, minus picking champions, so you'd set up, then go into champ select I would assume.

That is as much as I know, but I know for a fact it is being worked on, so that is something at least.

Arch Mage Magnus1 votes

Well the person hosting the team builder would be the captain obviously. I dont think the queue times would be that bad, I feel most people would use it. This wouldn't be like the normal team builder. The normal one people want to just join full games and get going. Ranked team builder is about finding like minded people that will work together. If I have to wait 5 - 10 mins for a better opportunity to win with players that won't rage or be toxic, to me it's worth it instead of playing a 40 min+ game with a bunch of toxic individuals.

I feel this really wouldn't take Riot long to create since they already have the team builder infrastructure live. It would just need some tweaking.

JAGMAG1 votes

but you have to keep certain elements of ranked in team builder you select the team you want as the captain that cant be allowed for solo que ranked also in team builder you select the teams then find your opponent so how are you supposed to do picks and bans with that format? you cant since everyone selects their champ first. the whole point of team builder is so you can play what you want were you want you would have to come up with a system that allows captains to ban then take turns picking players or randomly assigning players and it would either be a really long complicated mess or it would remove allot of strategy by removing things like counter picks and leaving that up to random luck.

Sukishoo1 votes

They are working on it. Those things take time.

3tyson1 votes

i think since counterpicking is a big part it be best if you only pick lanes and champ select would stil be the same

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