Disable option to ban picks from your teammates

Warix3·7/28/2019, 12:48:46 PM·16 votes·4,974 views

There's maybe one reason to allow players to ban picks from their teammates but it's not that significant and it gets outweighed by the reasons not to allow it. Reason to allow it: A last pick player may want to pick a op champion but there is a bigger chance for the enemy to pick it in that time so you ban the op champion so the enemy won't pick it. Reasons not to allow it: It's another way for trolls to sabotage games If someone bans someone else's champion even for the good reasons there is a high chance that the game will result in either a dodge or a troll because of the player who's champion got banned. Personally, I get mad when someone bans my champion but I don't troll, I just dodge the match. And I think this is what most people do.

I'm speaking this from experience, there wasn't a single match where people were nice to each other when someone banned their champion. That's why I think this option should be disabled. Nothing positive happens when someone bans someone else's champion. Disabling this option will result in less dodged matches and less trolls and flame.

38 Comments

Crystalysk7/28/2019, 1:31:31 PM10 votes

The fact that a teammate can ban another teammate's hovered champion just promotes more toxicity and the fact that people are still allowed to do it is just poor management.

Legit lost more games due to people trolling in champion select than people afk in my games.

Zardo7/28/2019, 1:40:02 PM10 votes

A lot of people are probably going to come in here and say "But if my teammate hovers something off meta and bad I should be able to ban it!"

Yeah, this is disregarding the fact that if you ban it you'll get something much, much worse most of the time.

needHymn7/28/2019, 1:20:16 PM9 votes

When I'm planning to pick Kog'Maw jungle, I legit have to hover Graves instead of Kog. I want my team to know that they're gonna have a ranged jungler who has no other CC except for a slow, so that they can make their picks more intelligently. And Graves is the closest thing for me to hover. If I actually hovered Kog, they would for sure ban it. But it kind of sucks to have to hover something else. So this thread has my upvote.

Sirsir7/28/2019, 12:53:20 PM4 votes

Agreed. Also the workaround for "The reason to have it" is to early pick it for them.

FSRER7/28/2019, 1:49:10 PM4 votes

The only reason I voted no is because, when a new champion or a new rework is released, I don't want to have that champion in my team at ranked. Since you don't know how to play him, go to normals, play there and then play at ranked.

BarryGS9/8/2019, 2:15:38 PM2 votes

2/3 say no, just shows you 2/3 of the people playing LOL are trolls, you can not hardly play a game without someone going off, leaving, trolling,etc. Riot does a horrible job with this, probably because all they care about it selling more skins to those trolls. The game is great, RIOT is the troll.

Teh Song7/28/2019, 2:29:39 PM2 votes

[Insert Champion]:: Is heavily overpowered to the point of being pick ban free win.

You:: Have last pick.

Also you:: Shows intent to play that champion.

All 4 of your teammates:: Realize that if they don't ban the champion the other team will take it because they have first pick. Or if it's only op enough for the right queued role to take, you're still last pick so the other team's person filling the role still picks before you so they will still get it. Either way you don't get it banned or not.

Barkley7/28/2019, 4:21:25 PM2 votes

No. Because you get idiots that hover high priority meta picks when they’re last to pick and clearly won’t get that champion.

No. No. No.

pickcollins7/28/2019, 8:41:25 PM2 votes

Yeah I don't feel sympathy for anyone running something like Sona Jungle or Draven support getting their champ banned. Sorry

weiyingwang7/28/2019, 6:16:19 PM1 votes

Most of this does happen in low elo and with Mordekaiser but the most funniest thing is people ban yasou because most people just int with him in lower elo.

This happens to me with annie lmao, I'm like who bans Annie?

PolarEclipse7/28/2019, 7:31:43 PM1 votes

There is one simple reason why this should never become a feature, and that is in cases where a champion becomes really strong or if a champion is really, really weak (Like Yuumi, even though she wasn't weak it was probably just better to ban her to avoid her altogether)

You can pull the argument "Just first pick for last pick if that's the case" and the counter argument would be what if I don't have all champions. What if that person doesn't have all champions either?

If I hover someone (I rarely do because I play a lot of champions and not just one and my picks vary depending on my order to pick.), and a teammate banns it, I just play something else, there's no reason to get boiling over having your champion banned. Unless you literally only have the mental capability of playing a single champion, and if that's the case, please expand on your roster.

Lauchmelder7/28/2019, 5:06:46 PM1 votes

As with everything the second Riot does that we will get autofilled people who hover whatever broken champion is in their preferred role just to try and force the one who got it to swap.

Dyrreah7/29/2019, 11:49:45 AM1 votes

I dont mind off meta picks as long as there is sense to them. But when I see shaco top in gold-plat games, I'm banning that shit. You are not pinkward, and even he has games when he just can't do anything. Ofc on YouTube you only see the highlights but if you check out his stream he doesn't go OMG SHACO TOP IS INSANE 1V9 EVERY GAME. So please stop trying to copy people who play the game for a living. I love to watch Stylish but I'm dogshit on Zed. So I don't pick it in ranked. Its that simple.

Woodakoodashooda7/28/2019, 6:01:54 PM1 votes

Hypothetical: A duo enters a lobby, one is mid. They each hover the mid's mains, Yasuo and Zed. They do this in order to prevent allies from banning the mid player's pick. The enemy locks in Yasuo and bans Zed or vice versa.

Hypothetical: A player is about to ban a champion they do not like, but the client lags as it is prone to do. An ally decides that the ban is a bad ban; so, they immediately hover the champion after making their ban just to prevent the player from proceeding with banning the champion they want to ban.

Summation: Players will exploit and abuse systems like this either for their own benefit or to deliberately ruin the experiences of others.