The EXP and IP rewards/and a rant on Blind Pick/TB.

StealthSyndrome·Feb 8, 2016·1 votes·1,317 views

So...right now I'm level 12. No one can play draft, or no one does, and blind pick is full of terrible people, Riot made Teambuilder require level 25 and then eventually removed it. and a grueling 20 minutes game of a one sided ARAM gives me 30-40 IP/EXP. I require like 1150 EXP to level up. If I win, I get 60-80 IP/EXP. So I'm supposed to play. I basically have to play 30 games of losses or around 15 wins to level up, and it'll mostly be losses. So once I get level 13 I'll probably have to play another 20-40 games, and then 10-15 more, and more, and more. How the heck am I supposed to level up? Just play ARAM for the rest of my life until I'm like level 20+(A few years?) where people will actually be willing to play dynamic queue? Why remove Teambuilder, but keep Blind Pick, which is FAR worse than Riot's "idea of what League should be like"?

4 Comments

MinardeFeb 8, 20161 votes

Because, by all accounts, Blind Pick is/was the most popular queue by a massive margin. Furthermore, since new champ select is much closer to TB than it is to Blind Pick, there'd be a lot of overlap between TB and new champ select.

StealthSyndromeFeb 9, 20161 votes

Blind pick is/was probably the most popular because it was the only one you could do below the level of 25 without having a bunch of champions. I could almost guarantee it wasn't because of the "I can call mid and feed if I don't get it" attitude of the players or the fact that it wasn't useful in any way. Teambuilder IS blind pick, only where you can choose your champion and your lane yourself, while Blind Pick is anyone goes and you'll constantly get into games of people who will fight over lanes or just afk. Many times I've had people just double midding(not in a team spirit type manner) just because they both wanted it and neither of them refused to give up "their lane". The only reason I played it in the beginning was because no other mode was available for PVP and I didn't wanna play bots. Btw TB is actually closer to Blind Pick, it just had you able to choose your own lane and role/champion. There was a lot more freedom than dynamic queue and you didn't have to fight over what you wanted like in Blind Pick. It should have replaced blind pick, imo.

CalabokFeb 9, 20161 votes

how about play to have fun and not like a grind fest

StealthSyndromeFeb 9, 20161 votes

You can't have fun when you're stuck in games with people who fight over lanes, threaten to intentionally feed, double lane and fight over minions or actually feed intentionally because they didn't get their lanes. No one at your level seems to have enough champions for dynamic queue so you're stuck playing ARAM games that are 95% of the time one sided(For example Blitz, Thresh, Fiddlesticks on the same team while your entire team are close range champions), or bots. When Teambuilder was available at level 1, it was perfectly easy to have fun while playing the game.