Why to Order Your Bans

Buff Jhin··1 votes·579 views

It's probably unheard of to many of you, as this is something that is never brought up; using your bans efficiently. No, I don't mean banning the OP/broken/annoying champions as efficient. It's about ordering your bans. Ban ordering in solo play isn't of course as important as opposed to organized play, but it will become something more needed if/when Riot releases the 10 ban system. Proper ban ordering essentially allows your team another ban. Why? Look at champions like Darius and Yasuo. Assume both teams seek to ban the same champion. In this case we'll use Yasuo. Let's imagine that Yasuo is banned first by your team. Since Yasuo is a high priority ban, the other team is relieved of having to ban him, thus one of their members gains a ban of their personal choice, which is, of course, a benefit to him and his team. On the contrary, if you do not ban Yasuo, then their team eventually will be coerced into doing so, thus they lose out on another ban that they would like to have had. Your team's ban pool is opened by one more.

In summa, ban the OP champs last, dear children. Hope I taught something, even if small. Any advantage helps.

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afmghost2 votes

To add on:

If one of your teammates wants to play a highly played/ banned champion, pick it if you're before him, after telling them to pick a champion you want. Trade afterwards. This will make certain your team gets the champion, and you don't risk losing it to the other team.

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