Please Change the Normal back to Team Builder and Draft

The Ecdysiast·Jan 18, 2016·8 votes·721 views

The new setup is perfect- for draft and Ranked.

Unfortunately, for normals it no longer takes into account when someone is new to a role.

That's completely detrimental to gameplay, and doesn't do any good for any of the players. If that's the way it's intended, then we might as well do away with separation based on player/skill level entirely.

As it stands, I've already had a team of Unranked and Silver players somehow matched against Diamond and Platinum players.

I'm not sure how that happens. but it's certainly not fun.

Esp. When said players are jackasses the entire game and spam "easy" into the chat because their champion takes no mechanical skill and they have the item needed to cover their only weakness.

3 Comments

The JigSAWJan 18, 20164 votes

Yeah, the team builder removal has been a huge mistake.

Blind pick normals was basically whoever called a role first supposedly gets that role, which is ridiculous since most people who pick the role aren't even good at it. Having played a few lately since TB went down, most of the time, the role I wanted was called and the person in it fed horribly and it was just a miserable game.

Team Builder fixed -everything- wrong with normal blind pick. Unlike some, I don't care who the opponent is and I hate the ban/counterpick for a regular game I just want to play to relax and have fun. Team Builder was the cure, and instead Riot takes out that cure and keeps the disease that is normal blind pick queue. It just boggles the mind.

If you want team builder alive, be like me and don't let up - keep hammering home the point a mistake was made and ask them to please bring it back. The longer we keep this alive, the better the chance we have!

vinyl scratch808Jan 18, 20161 votes

couldn't agree more. team builder was all i played. i like knowing im going to play exactly what i want to play, with a team that is also alright with what/how im playing. team builder was about having fun for me, but blind/draft most of the players only care about winning. im fine with those playing wanting to play more competitively, but i don't want to play with those players who are going to be toxic towards me because im not as good as them. im not saying team builder didn't have toxic players in it, but i played with way more people who are looking to just have fun in team builder than super competitive toxic players.

it really is baffling though that riot would just throw away a perfectly good mode. i hear that team builder was a "test" of sorts for the new champ selection but despite what riot thinks team builder became its own game mode. meow that i look at what riot did, i don't see other games taking away thriving game modes because those game devs are smart. other game devs know that taking away a popular feature in their game is just plain stupid.

i have also being reading that another reason riot took away team builder was so they have a lager player base to test the new champ selection system with, and to that i say balderdash. as riot is so happy to always say, LoL has one of that largest players bases in the world. if LoL has one of the largest player bases why would they need to take a game mode away to get more players to play draft.

i really do miss the only game mode that i would play. as of right meow im not playing LoL and using this time to play other games in my back catalog. but i really would like to see a return of team builder since its the only way i enjoy playing LoL.

11Kyuss11Jan 18, 20161 votes

I couldn't agree more. Team builder was all I played as well (except the odd ARAM now and again). I liked the ability to try out new champs, new team comps (why are we forced into top/mid/jung/2bot now?), as well as being able to play the champ I wanted, in the lane I wanted, with who I wanted, and with the champions I wanted. The new system does not allow this. It does not allow me to duo bot lane anymore. Why? It can take upwards of 20 minutes to get into a game. Why?