10 ban system. My thoughts.

If u don't like reading, skip to the tldr at the bottom

I'm excited that the 10 ban system is coming to live servers for normal and ranked draft but there is a main issue with it that i have that I'm sure many of you share and that is the "duplicate ban". It honestly just feels like a huge waste if both teams ban a couple of the same champions and leave many of the strong picks still available when they "could" of been banned. It isn't even out yet and the idea of that feels terrible. The potential to have 1 less ban than before ( if both teams ban the same exact champions ) also bothers me.

I actually don't see any real problem with using the same 10 ban system that the competitive scene uses or something similar. I've read some reasoning behind why Riot may not want to use the same system. I understand these reasons why but to be honest id still rather have the competitive 10 ban system over the proposed one for normal and ranked draft. Id rather sit an extra 30 seconds - 2 minutes in champ select to have 10 unique bans like in competitive than lose the chance to ban a champion that i wouldn't want in my game. I'm sure most of you have multiple champions you hate seeing in your game whether they are just over-tuned or annoying to play against. It would feel nice to be able to ban as many as possible.

I also really like the sense of strategy that the 10 ban system in competitive can give. First ban phase would most likely be used on op/problematic champions. Second ban phase You can either continue to ban OP picks or you can look at what the enemy team has already picked in pick phase 1 and make the decision to ban a champ based off of what the enemy team has already picked. Example: "Oh! The enemy team hasn't picked an adc yet! I'll ban Twitch or Caitlyn!" (2 of the stronger marksmen in solo queue atm) ect. You can even communicate with your team about it. It's not hard to do. Players in solo queue already do this to be honest. Everyone gets a ban. A unique ban. Is that not what riot is trying to accomplish? Every player gets a sense of agency. The 10 ban system in competitive isn't complicated at all. It's honestly pretty straight forward :/

tldr: Don't like duplicate bans. Don't like the proposed 10 ban system's lack of strategy for normal and ranked draft. Strongly feel that the 10 ban system used in competitive (or something similar) should be used over the proposed one for normal and ranked draft. Kinda makes the game feel like a different game than what the pros play as well, if you know what i mean.

Welp, that's all i guess. :^)