It was said before, and I will say it again: Don't Remove Normal Draft

JVP15·11/8/2016, 7:52:27 PM·1,086 votes·57,777 views

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/competitive/how-rank-2017-season

Please Riot. Normal Draft is an amazing concept; it takes the freedom to play anything in normals with the format of ranked. It is great for teaching new players how to play ranked games while also helping people who want to get better at ranked, but don't want to risk losing LP when learning new champions.

Spread the word people! With enough outcry on the boards, we were able to make Riot reconsider item sets. If we give this enough attention, we could change Riot's mind once again.

244 Comments

Oglaf11/8/2016, 8:07:43 PM55 votes

Seriously, I just went from super-excited about tomorrow to thinking about quitting the game because of this.

I live and breathe Draft. Fuck Blind and its stupid pick system. It is almost as bad as ARAM. I want my "Ranked Lite"-experience, damn it.

Deep Terror Nami11/8/2016, 8:42:25 PM40 votes

I cannot stand Blind Pick. It enables an extremely toxic environment by promoting autolocking, ruins lane matchups by allowing mirror matches, doesn't provide an appropriate means for practicing Ranked's Draft Pick...it's a mode for people that want a quick match and don't care about the results.

I can adjust to any gameplay changes they throw at us, but this is just stupid.

Oglaf11/8/2016, 8:16:57 PM23 votes

Seriously, first class and second class servers now.

Way to go Rito. Way to fucking go...

Dêcoy11/8/2016, 7:55:08 PM18 votes

Up you go my friend. Its like 4th thread like this I vote up - inclduing the one I made. Normal Drafts are great, so why are we forced to stick with stupid blind picks? If blind picks are so awesome, make it LCS format and lets how fun that shit gonna be.

Veraska11/8/2016, 9:24:01 PM18 votes

Im not a ranked player but i cant stand blind pick, why would you remove normal draft??

Oglaf11/8/2016, 8:03:02 PM14 votes

I played it almost exclusively on ENUE.

I sincerely hope Riot will offer me a free server transfer because of this.

Divewing11/8/2016, 8:40:40 PM9 votes

OCE player here. Don't remove normal draft. If I want to play a game where I don't have to lay eyes on Lee sin and whatever is obnoxiously broken at the time, the only choice I have is to enter ranked. And it fucking sucks.

Mike1703211/9/2016, 5:05:19 PM9 votes

They are what??

Are they nuts?

I fucking refuse to go back to having to quickly try and type what role I want into chat as the game loads, and then watching people fight over it.

If anything Blind is what needs to go away. I am not going back to Blind, and I have zero interest in ranked.

6Sfool11/8/2016, 9:24:27 PM9 votes

Blind pick is recognized by the CDC as more dangerous than cancer, and they think normal draft sucks? Riot, where do you get these stupid ideas?

TheSaltyScourge11/9/2016, 4:06:30 AM7 votes

Why dont they remove blind pick instead.

Owyn11/8/2016, 10:08:59 PM6 votes

What's next? - "we've fully removed normal queue to keep ranked queue healthy"... ? [slayer-jinx-wink]

OokamiNoSora11/8/2016, 9:40:16 PM6 votes

wait wait...they want to remove draft pick but want to keep blind pick, aram, TT. Like Im not saying they should remove anything but I would think that If they would remove anything it would be one of those.

Flaherty11/8/2016, 8:01:23 PM6 votes

They're removing it from regions where no one played it, everyone calm the fuck down.

FancyKiddo11/9/2016, 2:15:31 AM6 votes

Wait why are they removing it? It's the only thing I play: blinds is too cancer, and ranked is too serious (and cancer). I haven't had a really terrible game in normal draft in ages, but when I enter blind, every single one is horrible and I quickly get scared back!

Dextix LT11/9/2016, 9:13:18 AM6 votes

Why the fuck are they removing it? How the fuck am i supposed to practise specific champions in specific roles then? By instalocking in blind? Jesus, what is with these idiotic decisions and Riot lately.

Archace11/9/2016, 10:41:46 PM5 votes

Sadly, this pretty much means I'll be done with league if they dont bring it back. I don't wanna play ranked and Im not going anywhere near the hellhole that is blind pick.

1 800 Top Lane11/8/2016, 7:55:42 PM2 votes

I'm kinda in favor of removing it, You guys already have Aram, Bots, 3v3, 5v5, Rotating game modes.

Why do we need a game mode "Like ranked" "but not"?

What could you possibly learn in Draft that you wouldn't learn in Blind?

Obviously it doesn't stop trolls from flooding into ranked with their first time champs and bad attitudes.