TEAM BUILDER needs the option to "FILL roles"
Team builder is a great feature that solves a lot of issues that people have been complaining about for years... However... Many people still play blind pick instead of teambuilder (including me) and the reason is simple... The problem with teambuilder is that you have to pick your champion and position before you get to see your team. While in theory you can hop between teams until you found your perfect one, in reality the waiting times are too long and we all just want to play ASAP. When I queue up for a normal, I usually don't really have a preference for one champion. I just queue up and see what my team picks, then I pick something that fits.
Suggestion: Allow people to leave their champion, position and/or role open before searching for team. Leaving your position open will mean you can fill any lane. Also allow to choose multiple roles instead of one (this is similar to filling but only limited to a few roles instead of all). Once you found team, you can pick your position, role and champion in whatever order. You can still switch between champions until you ready up. You must wait 5 seconds after switching champion to ready up (to prevent instant swap-start games that deceive your team into a troll game).
For example I pick Top and Jungle as roles, leaving open the role and champion and I search for team. I find a team where there is already a jungle. I pick top lane as position (if I enter a team that has no jungle slot open but only a top lane slot, it will automatically pick top for me) and I choose Teemo as champion. The OP kicks me. I continue searching team, find a team without top nor jungle. I pick Master Yi jungle. As more people enter, I notice that we lack CC so I switch to Amumu. We all lock in and the Host starts the game.
Pros
- People who like to fill instead of instantly picking a champ will have a better time at teambuilder now.
- Because there are now people filling roles, other people won't have to wait as long to get those less desired roles filled, making teambuilder more appealing for them aswell (seriously, we're all impatient, we just want to start a game! That's why blind pick is still so popular.)
Cons
- This could possibly conflict with the way Riot matches you with a team (depending on what champion you play you have a different MMR in teambuilder). This means they can't use champion based MMR for finding team, but they can still use it for finding opponents.
I think this update will help make teambuilder a more popular game type, maybe even the dominant game type for casual plays (replacing blind pick). The more people play this game mode, the faster you will be able to find a team and play. A fast queue type where everyone's happy about their role/position? What could beat that?!?!
