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The Ability to View a Person's Secondary (Tertiary/Quaternary/Quinary) in a Draft Game?

CocoCookieDough·3/27/2016, 8:49:48 PM·3 votes·754 views

Introduction: Before Dynamic Queue, you'd remember that if you ever played a Draft Game (Normal or Ranked), you'd be thrown into a Chat Lobby (like Blind Pick), and you'd get to call your roles.

I'm not complaining about Dynamic Queue, as it gets rid of the, "I called this lane first, noob", and "Fine, don't feed in MY lane" hostility.

Problem: However, Dynamic Queue removed the ability to make a flexible team. (This mostly applies to Solo Queue.)

What I mean:

  • Dynamic Queue pretty much sticks you into the role you're assigned, which means that there isn't much wiggle room to get out of the lane you were assigned.
  • Let's say you're first pick in the old Draft System. You can pick Fizz, and say "flex pick top/mid/jg"
  • Let's say you're first pick in the new Draft System. You're ASSIGNED a lane, and most people are not willing to swap their lane (because they clicked on what lane they wanted beforehand). You can still pick Fizz, but you're probably forced into playing (top/mid/jg) lane.

Solution: The ability to view a person's secondary (tertiary/quaternary/quinary) in a Draft Game.

What it might do:

  • People that tend to dislike being first pick because of the possibility of getting counterpicked may have the option for wiggle room in choosing another lane. "Yo, I'm first pick as mid. Can I (top/jg/adc/supp) instead?"
  • People that have overlapping roles can swap lanes for a better pick order, or if they do not like facing a certain champ at that lane. "Lol, I don't want to first pick Yasuo. Can you last pick him for me please?" or "Umm, I struggle laning against Malph. Is it cool if you top instead?"
  • Allow the option of "Fill" to actually "Fill" a lane (as opposed to being force shoved into a lane with no say.)

Reasoning:

  • Some people that are first pick simply cringe, lock in, and pray for the best. However, the other team can counterpick, so this usually doesn't end well.
  • People that have the same lanes as you have a higher chance of understanding in dealing with a certain problem with that lane. (Champion matchup, objective control, laning/mid/end game)

Sincerely, a "Fill" main that used to say, "fill, pref _____"

4 Comments

one boosted bird3/27/2016, 8:58:18 PM1 votes

Maybe its just me, but if you get good with a couple of champions and say you get stuck first pick mid and get countered, just farm and dont die in lane, roam and help the side lanes when you can. Take teleport and make plays instead of trying to win lane. If you decide the game is lost in lobby then you have just doomed yourself to fail.

Just because you get counter picked doesn't mean you will lose. Especially if you are playing with a champion you know how to play very well. Do what you can in lane and roam and get picks or put pressure on other lanes, ward enemy buffs, harass their jungler if you have the wards down. Many things you can do to get ahead. Dont worry about it so much.

Nameless Voice3/27/2016, 10:46:25 PM1 votes

I think a better request would be for the ability to swap your position in champion select with someone else, if they are willing.

For example: you are mid, first-pick. Your last-pick is support. You choose to swap your positions, so they pick first and you pick last. This way, you don't need to both have the same champions, you don't need to worry about remembering to swap, etc.

Though I guess it would make it so that whichever team picks the last champion first would be much more likely to get countered, since swapping would be so much easier.