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Convenience Change: Champion Select Tabs

SCRAW··182 votes·15,036 views
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This has actually been something I wanted for about a year now but never bothered to discuss it with anyone outside of a small group of people.

Right now in champion select we have two tabs. One tab is for the champions and another tab is for skins. Wouldn't it be convenient if we had tabs for each role and plop champions we enjoyed in that tab?

Similar to how we can create item sets for champions we can also edit what champions we like in each role. When you go to your "Top" tab you have a list of every champion that you can drag and drop into said tab. The same is said for all tabs so you can have Swain in your "Top" and "Mid" tab.

How is this convenient? Every new champion that comes out I can immediately buy with IP and try out instead of waiting for when they are free. So I have EVERY champion. The example I want to give is a time I had to face a Diana mid lane and I wanted to be AP because everyone else on our team was mainly AD. For me, Diana is one of my many banes in the sense that no matter who I play, I will struggle in laning phase against her. So I wanted someone who can farm safely. With 10 seconds to spare and not sure who the best pick would be for our team, I pick Malzahar. After I picked Malzahar I noticed Ziggs and realized THAT is who I REALLY wanted.

Why does this matter? With the example I gave, had I been able to condense the champions I comfortably play mid I can scan my champion pool quickly and confidently and make a choice with more thought behind it rather than constantly scrolling up and down until I see the champion I want to play.

Why not use the search bar? You bring a good point. Useful, but it is easier to make a decision if you visually look at all the champions you enjoy in each role. I can't search "Mid Lane" and get Zed and Swain to pop up. Let alone searching that and having ANYONE show up.

It is a small idea and looking at the champion select interface it always looked like more room was given for future tabs to be added. Allowing us to create as many tabs as we wanted may make the interface cluttered. I suggest 5 tabs with defaulted names being "Top", "Jungle", "Mid", "Carry", and "Support". However the names can be edited to whatever people desire. This allows people who prefer one role to, for example, change names based on utility. Mid laners could have "Assassin", "Wave Clear", "Teamfight", etc etc.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Glad a lot of people enjoy the idea. Very late last night so I got a bit on a ramble.

Thought I should add a few pros and cons.

Pros

  • Optional
  • No impact on in-game play
  • Convenient
  • Helps players see desired champions visually
  • Gives the player more control when selecting their champions

Cons

  • Potential difficulties in coding

60 Comments

RiotZwill103 votes

Personally, I'd find this pretty damned useful myself. I'll be sure to share it internally.

Nucleophilic atk1 votes

damn*

Gooberp31 votes

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damn*

"damned" is correct, from a literary/historical/grammatical standpoint. "damn" is also correct, from a colloquial usage standpoint. They are both acceptable.

rebound227 votes

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FunkyyCat6 votes

habitat*

rebound29 votes

I try to make a joke about someone correcting someone. I get corrected, legit.

S H A Y C 02 votes

English hard

Hello I am Bird2 votes

*is hard

Jaghatai1 votes

I'd like to see these lists customize-able like the item lists. My definition of top-lane champs doesn't necessarily match other players. Especially since I play a lot of 3's.

Chimeu1 votes

Zwill I have a question for you, how have you become a Riot employe?

RiotZwill5 votes

Oh you know... the usual methods...

I was lead, blindfolded, into a dark room. My heart raced as I could smell the fear from other candidates, the unknown whipping us into a primal state. We heard the murmured voices of those assembled to take part in the spectacle, the basest form of entertainment. One by one, our blindfolds were removed and we saw before us the sandy floor of the arena, still musky with the scent of the previous combatants. A misshapen man-thing approached each participant in turn, handing them a pitted and battle tested machete...we all looked up into the glaring lights illuminating the stands and heard one word...

"Fight."

Also, the phone screen was a real killer.

FunkyyCat1 votes

Oh you know... the usual methods...

S H A Y C 01 votes

While the post was very entertaining...it was very unhelpful. Which if simply entertaining was your job description, well done. If helping, moderating, and answering questions is your job....probably not getting a raise come evaluation time.

Krait9 votes

Great idea. Seems like it would be easy to implement and i don't see how it would negatively impact other players. It might be helpful to have the same thing when you are the team member banning champs, so you can have your list of "OP" champs ready to ban. I know i often forget who i was going to ban and then immediately remember when the opposing team picks that champ....

Lcifer2 votes

this would defiantely be a insanely helpful i would up vote this 100+ times if i could but i can only give u 1 so u get it man UPVOTED and hopefully implemented this would save me so much time when trying to find a champ for a specific role or i could even setup different tabs for different groups of ppl i play with for example with my duo partner i generally only use 2 champs where as with my 5s team for unranked i used anywhere from 5-15 different champs and when i solo ranked or normal i use compleltely different champs in general AMAZING IDEA I REALLY HOPE RIOT TAKES THIS INTO CONSIDERATION

Auryiel2 votes

Riot : We agree that this would be awesome, but no.

I mean come on guys, we don't even have fucking replays.

Wheatloaf8 votes

To be fair, replays would require far more hardware...

Auryiel1 votes

To be fair, Riot has no excuse at this point

1 billion dollars in revenue and they are still incapable of providing some of the most basic functions for a game this popular and it all stems from their unwillingness to build a new client from scratch instead of ''building a plane while it's in the air with passengers inside'' as they themselves have compared what it is like to work with the current one

Those guys can't even link long bios from the client to the LoL website for some obscure reason It's THAT bad

The community always has those awesome ideas to improve the game and none of them are made come true because Riot can't even manage to do the simplest things

Wheatloaf6 votes

Have you ever worked with a program built around code you wrote while understaffed, underfunded, and inexperienced? Because working with that is hard, and "make a new one" isn't the easy one-step cure-all you seem to think it is. Money can get a lot of things done, but it alone doesn't get them done right.

Oleandervine2 votes

It'd be easier and less programming power on Riot's part to just allow for the search bar to search by role like "Support" or "Mage." All this would require is keeping the champions updated on their roles (Looking at you Blitzcrank), and just tagging each champion with the role keywords that would come up in the search. To implement a tab system, it would take a bit more effort to program for a pretty similar result.

AbyssionKnight1 votes

That functionality already exists.

edit: the search bar function, not the tabs, obviously.

Oleandervine1 votes

{quoted}

That functionality already exists.

edit: the search bar function, not the tabs, obviously.

Unless I'm missing something, when I type in support into the search bar in champion select, it brings up no results. I think this function exists in the profile, but not during champ select.

cshakes1 votes

It works for Marksman, Support, Tank etc. The downside is that it only really works for ADC players, since all the meta ADCs are there (plus Azir and Teemo and stuff). For anyone else, not really, since even meta supports like Leona can't be found under Support.

AbyssionKnight1 votes

Yeah, that's honestly on Riot to update and improve tags for champions.

Oleandervine1 votes

Well then, being able to search by role must have been added recently without any recognition from Riot that they were implementing it. I had just had failed searches the week before Bard was released when searching by role. That being said, it sucks that the search can't bring up secondary roles.

AbyssionKnight2 votes

I've been able to do it since late S3 / preseason S4, and learned about by chance through the forums so it's not new.

cshakes1 votes

Been doing it forever. Maybe it's capitalization-specific? Like, "Marksman" works but "marksman" doesn't?

AbyssionKnight1 votes

imgur screenshots of it working

Coffeeturnal4 votes

However, doing it like this enforces the meta. If riot wanted to be meta-neutral they would allow you to select how you sort your champions. The point is so that you can find the ones you are comfortable with. Not the ones that riot thinks you should be comfortable with.

AbyssionKnight2 votes

It's not a bad idea, though most of that functionality already exists.

All champions have tags and if you enter one of those tags (such as marksman, fighter, mage etc) in the search bar, all the champions that match that tag will show up. likewise you could do zed|swain|teemo if you just wanted those three champions to be visible.

The real issue is that Riot doesn't speak up and notify people about these search bar functionality. Some people know just the basics about searching based on champion name. Some know about searching based on tag, but a lot don't know about using | to designate specific champions you want to show up, regardless of whether their names or tags are similar.

Zirzon2 votes

Super happy one of these posts finally got noticed by a Red! Been wanting it for forever, made a post on it a couple weeks ago in fact.

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/miscellaneous/AxJaF9Am-custom-categories-in-champion-select

The one small change I would suggest from my post is that you have 6 default tabs, with one for your favorite bans. Thank you for posting! This is a functionality is exactly what many of us "fill" mains that like too many champs need.

GhastlyGhoulMan1 votes

I would love this. I have experienced the SAME dilemma you have, where I have no idea what I want to play when it comes to the wire, I make a decision, and then I realize I wanted to play something else.

Rito plz.

Takeuchi 171 votes

I like this idea. Rito should also cater to my ocd and give me infinite mastery pages so I can have at least one for every champion

Mephistophilis1 votes

+1 would be great

NorthernDruid1 votes

This would be so useful.

Final Raid Boss1 votes

rioters apparently have access to something like this, on phreak's livestream he types in marksman into the little search bar and all the marksman come up. +1 rito for hiding a useful feature.

TR4PP1 votes

As stated above, by AbyssionKnight, this isn't just a Riot thing. That's just in the game. Really, not that hard to check for yourself.

Final Raid Boss1 votes

doesn't work for me, why don't you try it yourself before spewing bullshit

TR4PP1 votes

I did try it myself. Maybe something is glitching on your client, but when I actually went into the game, got to character select, and typed marksman into the bar, I saw the marksmen. I'd provide my own screenshot, but I already gave you one, courtesy of AbyssionKnight.

Please, be a bit less toxic about it, you're giving League a bad name.

Hulkamania1 votes

I will tell you something most people don't know. If you type in a champions name like Zed followed by the | character (the one above your enter key) it will allow you to search for multiple champions.

To elaborate, I have a text document with my preferred champions in mid like Zed|Viktor|Anivia|Fizz and if I copy paste that into the search bar it will give me just those champions to choose from.

The tab idea is still great but this is a solution for those looking for something similar

DontDieRespawn1 votes

So a way to filter ad/ap/tanks and so on... I actually dig that, I haven wanted that for years.

Kitten of Evil1 votes

I love this idea. Like you, I have mounds of IP and own every champion and sometimes when I'm hurriedly scanning for, say, AD carries, I miss the one I'm looking for.

GaleWinUnleashed1 votes

I'd just like the ability to sort by roles. Essentially just add an options on top of the current display method that would group champions in categories. All champions would still be displayed, but under 6 different headers (Tank, Mage, Assassin, Marksman, Support, Bruiser).

If we go one step further and allow customization, well then that would be fantastic.

BatteryDead1 votes

A client change such as this would be heavenly!

I Main Swain1 votes

you have 20 friends on at once? I don't even have that many that play league on a day to day basis...or month to month...or year to year...T_T

Squidblimp1 votes

How about instead of lanes for the tabs, it could be like Runes and Masteries, and you could rename each tab to whatever you wanted. You could name them according to lanes, or AP or AD, or assassins... whatever you wanted basically.

LoL Ergo Urgot1 votes

What a splendid notion.

major ferret1 votes

I personally would like to see this too I just got done buying a bundle of Champions in filtering it through would be really nice

Anrui1 votes

As someone similar to the OP who also owns all champions, I fall into similar situations all the time. I scroll up and down the champion list looking for what best suits the situation and what I am comfortable with playing and time is ticking down so I pick something, only to immediately see and realize who I should have picked.

It's not per se, that I'm not familiar with what I am looking for, or my own champion pool or whatever. It's the fact that I'm very visually orientated as a person. Just like with test questions, I have to see it before I can clearly think of the answer.

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