Drafted Should Have 10 Bans
Here is why. In the current season there are 129 champions, with such a diverse champion pool a single RW of an item, or changes to Jungle dynamics can throw the whole game off. I will begin with a simple and obvious list that everyone has recently become aware of. Champions buffed by Guinsoos Rageblade:
- Kog'maw
- Xin Zhao
- Jax
- Master Yi
- Udyr
Now I'm only pointing to the ones that had decent statistical changes due to this item (not including devourer.) If I was to include devourer on the 4 that use it, suddenly we have bans. Just based on these two Items, both teams have consumed 2/3rds of the bans allotted in order to allow for what can loosely be termed as "non-toxic gameplay." But there is more, with the admission of
this bs, Zed and Talon can now more successfully eliminate any squishy early/mid game with less counter play. So we now have two mids to ban in order to allow the ADC a slightly better chance to do something about the impending durst. Thus consuming all of our allotted ban slots. Then there is Ezreal, Corki, Lux, Ahri, Nautilus, Malphite, Quinn, Trundle, Kog'maw, Garen, Mundo, etc. All of which have pretty freaking good win rates (some better than others. (Lux cough kog'maw cough) Funnily enough, most of these don't constitute a team comp being built around them.
This is not a request that riot nerf these champions, or that they magically kiss people's solo q boo boos and make them better. I believe the community is quite understanding of the amount of time and effort it takes to balance things and that not everything can be covered in a single patch. Just give us a slightly better ability to remove the toxic champion of our choice from the face of the rift. Hell it might even... idk, open up some different comps to try (like being able to play twitch and not be flamed for not having a dash, or karthus and not have your face rolled on by assassins and super mobility mages/lux e)
Side note:
Solo q is completely different than LCS! I do not want to hear about comp banning because statistically it would never happen due to the fact that we are all strangers. You do not know who summoner 1-5 is and who they main. I have been stomped by too many
s over time to believe it is justification to allow limited banning.