Riot Please add proper gatng to champ select in ranked play.

Vegas Dad·Feb 5, 2015·2 votes·490 views

You really should know how to play a champ at the VERY least before you enter ranked play and select it. Smite has an excellent system you might want to adopt, essentially you get a rating for each champ which is gained from using it in normals, and you have to have an xxx rating to select it in a ranked match.

Aka i played wukong 16 times in normals so now i am gold proficiency with wukong and he is eligible to be selected for rank play. Little changes l9ike this add up to help improve the player experience alot.

4 Comments

SmokingPuffinFeb 5, 20153 votes

I'm not such a fan. Say you were really good at Lucian and played him a ton last year. Now Lucian's been nerfed and you want to switch over to Graves.

Should you really need to play 16 normal games with him in order to prove that you're still a good ADC player on him? Seems to me like that's way overkill, and would encourage people to have really small champion pools.

ValyrianBladeFeb 5, 20153 votes

Honestly... I don't know about this.

I understand you're premise and agree that in general this would help league A LOT.

That said, consider a situation like the following: There are 5 roles in league: top, mid, jungle, adc, support I main my favourite role and have practiced 5+ champions in that role with no problems. I have two secondary roles and have practiced 3+ champions in each of those roles. I have two roles where I have only practiced 2 champions in, as I almost never play these roles anyways.

So I queue for ranked play with a very reasonable set up. I can play 3 roles really well, and if I get stuck in one of the two remaining roles I have two fairly confident picks in them anyways.

Then bans go through, and one of my two champions in one of the off roles gets banned. Picks go through, I'm last pick, and the other 4 picks on my team took the 4 other roles. My role-opponent took my remaining pick for that role.

So what do I do? I might own other champions in that role, I may even have tried them once or twice, or read a guide or watched a video on them, but I'm not allowed to play them because I don't have 'proficiency' in them. I can't take either of my comfort picks because they're picked/banned.

So now I'm forced to dodge or 'troll' by picking a champion for a different role.

You could argue that I should practice more champions for those roles, but I think 2 champions in two off-roles is honestly quite reasonable and even if I got to 3+ it's possible that additional bans or multi-role champions could still exhaust the champion pool.

It may never be a problem for season 1 and 2 veterans, but for relatively newer players the required champion pool to safely play ranked would be overwhelming. I'd personally be quite turned off of rank. I don't want to have to go practice Top, a role that I don't like and that is sufficiently popular that I rarely ever have to play it, on champions other than the 2 I have chosen to practice for it, in the off-chance something like this will happen.

The MormonatorFeb 5, 20151 votes

I personally think there are lot of things that Smite has thought up that Riot does not have and could learn from. Vise Versa as well. But, yes. I support this.