Suggestion For Blind Pick System

Ignis0··1 votes·471 views

One of the biggest complaints with League of Legends is the toxic community. Now this community is highly hated by most and is heavily punished by the Tribunal Review people. Now when I first joined league I thought the community was just naturally occurring like in most games but after playing this game for 5 hours a day for the past month I have realized the Blind Pick system is the problem. When playing with a couple of veteran friends via Skype I realized the blind pick lobby chat has a delay on it. For instance I could call top and I would see it pop up first however everybody else would see it 3 seconds later giving time for someone else to call top. On my screen it shows clearly I said top first but everyone else sees the other guy saying it first. This is a huge problem. I have participating in many many many fights regarding this occurrence and it seems detrimental to the team as a whole (One time I had to play Shyvanna support and it was ugly). This is not the only problem with calling lanes. The fact that the game relies on an honor system is terrifying to me. People are assholes on the internet and that is fact we should not have to rely on any honor system. Now, I have two suggestions that could possibly fix this problem. My first is to reworking the chat box in the lobby so that my messages don't even show up for me until everyone else can see it and that way there can't be two people who called top at the same time. My second suggestion is to have a click box that you have to click first to call the lane/role that would prevent two people from calling the same lane/role. Now with the second suggestion people may ask what about if they want to duo top lane or duo adc. My answer is this: the first person who calls the lane/role gets 'first priority' and the next gets 'second priority'. I understand that this solution won't completely eliminate role/lane arguments but it could really decrease it. (PS if you're one of those "season 1 super pro" players who wants League to stay the same because that's how you "grew up" with it please don't be a dick :).

I know this suggestion is a huge shot in the dark but I would love to see this change from this barbaric lobby. Please leave suggestions and feedback in the comments below.

4 Comments

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

I really don't think this is the cause of any significant amount of toxicity. With the combination of all the Draft pick modes (including Team Builder), role calling itself is solved automatically by the existence of Pick Order in those modes, so your issue with laggy chat which is already insignificant also mostly would happen in a small minority of matches.

Can they improve chat latency? Idk, maybe, I haven't seen it be a problem beyond my own personal lag though. Is it really an issue if they don't? Probably not; you can do Draft Pick and Team Builder in the meantime if it's really such a huge problem to you.

Ignis01 votes

In lower elos such as mine Draft pick can take up to 30 minutes or more to assemble a match and no one ever plays support or jungle on team builder so that can take 10-20 minutes. Ranked isn't even unlocked yet for these players as well. Blind pick is great because It takes only but a minute to get into a match and it's more laid back. However a good portion of the matches on blind are ruined for me because of players fighting over lane or role and causes some players to even dodge the match. This solution is great because it eliminates the fights over lane while also keeping the quickness and easy process of a blind pick. This would not at all ruin the fun part of going into a blind pick match not knowing if you're going to play top or adc.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

A box you click is no different from typing it out; the person with the fastest connection and fingers gets it. It solves nothing. The system would only be fair if you queued up with your role already selected...which already exists and is called Team Builder. If you want a very quick TB queue, then create the match as the Captain (you'll need at least 1 friend to do so) and you'll get in very quickly. I don't even believe your 3-second lag claim anyway but that's beside the point.

Ignis01 votes

Why are you making arguments against topics that you ave not looked into. When you type in chat your message appears to you instantly however it may take a couple of seconds for other players to see it due to how the chat is set up and this causes the delay in which 2 players could claim the same position at the same time. A box you could click would be better because in this case you would "lock" your role/lane causing no one else to be able to grab it hence preventing people from claiming that they called top first because it would be visible for all players. Yes, the person with the fastest fingers will probably get it but that's the fun of blind pick and not an issue that I would want to change. Once again it takes 30-40 minutes just to setup a team builder match even if you do have two other friends you can invite and I know this from experience.

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