Alternative to the Removal of Normal Draft

EndlessSorcerer·11/8/2016, 11:30:31 PM·135 votes·1,921 views

[Step 1] Remove Blind Pick.

[Step 2] Unlock the 450 IP champions for all players and remove them from the free champion rotation.

That way, all accounts will have enough champions for Normal Draft and it will remain for practice or warm-up games.

If you are going to have a practice environment, it is generally a good idea to have it remain similar to the competitive environment.

There is no point in forcing players to use Blind Pick when Normal Draft has solved the majority of problems associated with it.

Considering how many champions there are in the game currently, I'm honestly surprised you still have to purchase the 450 IP champions.

37 Comments

Sassmast3r11/9/2016, 12:10:41 AM15 votes

I actually am in love with this idea, honestly there should be a set of around 5-10 champs that by default a player has on their account, and by making all 450 IP champs automatically unlocked for all accounts, I feel as if this would resolve that issue. What if a new player likes only two or three champions from the free rotation, but they're super popular, so they never get to use them? By allowing everyone to have a set of a couple champions that they own by default, I feel that this problem would be alleviated. Want to play Thresh for that nice engage of his, but he's on free rotation and everyone's taking him? Guess it's a good time for me to try out Alistar, he seems pretty similar.

I also support removing blind pick. I can think of about 5 instances where I have played blind pick, and they were either accidental or the first set of real games I played when I hit level 30 because I wasn't sure what it was. I can tell you I certainly won't be making that mistake again; blind pick is a joke. Never have I less enjoyed queueing up for a game when the roles I prefer are instantly called and the only chance I have of getting them is if everyone else's computer loads slower than mine, how ludicrous.

Schàdenfreude11/8/2016, 11:39:24 PM10 votes

This is actually a brilliant idea.

The only problem being that this involves reducing the amount of IP you have to spend on the game, and Riot is known for keeping IP costs high.

SpecterVonBaren11/9/2016, 12:47:03 AM5 votes

I say hell no to everyone saying to get rid of Blind Pick. As a support main, Blind Pick is my ONLY que to use to have a chance of playing something besides support while also not having to wait an hour to get into a que if I don't pick fill/support. Unless you can fix the selfishness of the majority of the player base so that they actually feel like helping their team more often than just going full glass cannon then I strongly disagree with the idea of removing Blind Pick.

Golden Tager X11/9/2016, 6:32:35 PM2 votes

Blind pick is much much much more played, it would be even more retarded than Riot usually is to remove it.

Zydron11/9/2016, 9:18:09 AM2 votes

[Step 3] Give back Teambuilder

oSEXYPLATYPUSo11/9/2016, 12:18:30 AM2 votes

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

Normal Draft will be retired at the start of preseason for all regions except North America, Europe West, and Brazil. Our goal is to offer the fewest number of queues that give unique experiences (so we can keep queues healthy) while keeping disruption low, and in all regions except NA/EUW/BR, normal draft had very low participation. In an ideal world, we’d like to retire normal draft in all regions.

Large Minivan11/9/2016, 6:37:00 PM1 votes

also have smite unlocked at lv 1

Sona Ping11/9/2016, 8:01:47 PM1 votes

Or, alternative alternative: Keep it the way it is and don't remove queues.

Who Feeded You11/10/2016, 9:48:19 AM1 votes

I wouldn't mind if blind pick was balanced, but it isn't.

Let's say everyone starts at 0 MMR and for each victory you gain 50 and each loss, you lose 50.

So I started a new account, stomped some complete newbies for first 3 games (or got stomped because I had newbies on my team and enemies had "smurfs"). But for current sake, let's say I won. I'm at 150 MMR and system detected that I'm not a new player, so assigns me with similar people. Since I play better than average folk there, I win more games in row (let's say 5) and my MMR spikes to 400. Now average player's MMR at that point is lower, but since I'm above average skill level mine is higher. But Riot doesn't like much higher than 50% win ratio, so match making decides to match people with lower than average MMR with me and people with average - slightly above average MMR to enemy team, with hopes of either me losing MMR or my teammates gaining MMR.

But since teams are something like this: Allied: 0 MMR 100 MMR 400 MMR 200 MMR 50 MMR

Foe: 200 MMR 250 MMR 100 MMR 100 MMR 200 MMR

It means that enemies will most likely win.

Problem is that match making puts teams together by looking at what is team's average MMR, but it should look at player's individual MMR.

So teams should be: Allied: 300 MMR 400 MMR 450 MMR 200 MMR 250 MMR

foe: 250 MMR 300 MMR 400 MMR 500 MMR 200 MMR

Teams are practically balanced. Every one has similar MMR and match will be more fair, not a stomp fest for one side.

DeathBurst11/10/2016, 3:11:45 PM1 votes

There is no point in forcing players to use Blind Pick when Normal Draft has solved the majority of problems associated with it.

Indeed, if that was the case, there would be no point. But Draft hasn't solved two very big problems: the queue times are much longer, and the champ you want to play can be banned.

Plus, even if you disagree with the above, there is still an undeniable fact: there are still more people playing Blind than people playing Draft, especially in the regions where Draft is removed, I'm not entirely sure why... So from these players's point of view, there must be some problem in Draft.

cooollll11/8/2016, 11:52:49 PM1 votes

What do you think if they actually make blind pick playable for the players by implementing the role picking system without the banning phase? Honestly, I'm totally against them taking out Normal Draft. Not sure why they cant just keep both of them.

bad arcade kitty11/9/2016, 12:19:49 AM1 votes

that's a nice idea actually

HazyCloud711/9/2016, 9:57:16 AM1 votes

Reasonable suggestion, upvoted.

DarkRitual11/9/2016, 1:40:27 PM1 votes

Instead of unlocking all cheap champs free. Use hextech crafting to provide free champs (random or not is up for debate) upon reaching Summoner Level thresholds. Each level threshold would provide materials for certain price tiers on Champions. Low levels give low tier champs, while reaching 30 grants a 6300 champ.

EternalShred11/9/2016, 5:49:38 PM1 votes

Tbh only reason i play blinds is becUse Q times , nobody wants to F'ing support