Should banning your own teammates pick be allowed poll.

dethkyle·10/9/2016, 5:07:38 AM·1 votes·524 views

I'm tired of trolls banning my picks or people doing it for some bullshit reason. Oh x champion is op and your not first pick. Champion x is weak so I don't want it on my team. It makes me not wanna play with the team. If the enemy team bans my pick I don't care but it's feels bad when your own team does it. First of all at any given time there are more than 6 op champs and every champ can be op if you play them right. That's just my opinion on the topic what do you guys think?

12 Comments

aspects110/9/2016, 5:12:24 AM3 votes

at any given time, there may be one champ that is a must pick/ban (like yas 2 patches ago, hecarim a while before that, sona when her ult was buffed, and warwick when challenging smite first came out.), and if your last pick and you cant trade to get him, i think your team would prefer he being banned than risk him going to the enemy team.

Void Nargacuga10/9/2016, 5:11:36 AM2 votes

It's a necessary evil sadly. At least that is my take on it.

What I mean is this: Does the final pick want a pick/ban champion and you don't want the enemy to have it? Though I'd apologize to them and try to explain that I don't want to risk the enemy team to get that champion.

KVbqbFsC8e10/9/2016, 5:14:03 AM2 votes

Absolutely. You should be able to ban whichever champion you want.

DrCyanide10/9/2016, 5:25:11 AM2 votes

Not being able to ban hovers creates a far more toxic environment. You'd end up with people choosing Support, then hovering the most OP champion of the patch (or a hard counter to another player's hover) and refusing to move off of the hover until someone traded them roles. Currently, you can ignore that troll, saying "No, you've got to play Support" and ban the champion anyway, but if you couldn't then that situation happens.

New champions should be automatically banned in Ranked, and until they are I'm going to ban them for the first few weeks. Don't care if you hovered them, they don't belong here yet.

specter42410/9/2016, 6:00:50 AM1 votes

So if my last pick teammate wants the op champ of the patch I shouldn't be allowed to ban it even if there is no way they will get it except through trading?

Baby Ghoul10/9/2016, 6:10:31 AM1 votes

I only ban a teammates pick with people who try to play a newly released champion in ranked. No sir, not in my games with my LP on the line. You go to blind pick or draft for that.

I really, really dislike people who play weak champions in ranked, and the majority of the time this comes from top lane, but it's their choice and you just hope that you can end the game quickly. I hope you know though, that people do view you as a burden even if they aren't jerks about it. Making the game an uphill battle is just a sad choice, but it is your choice and who knows maybe you're the exception. 9 times out of 10 the laning phase ends in a predictable fashion in my experience.

You should realize that in ranked you're not just only playing for yourself, but your team. There are certain champions I reserve for ranked because I play them well and they are in decent spots to compete with the rest of the meta champions. I always keep up with the patch notes as well.

As for last picks, I don't really mind them because there isn't anyone currently that I feel I cannot deal with. From patch to patch that changes though, however usually someone 1st pick or 2nd pick is willing to switch with them. If you're going to do that just make sure you have a wide variety of champions to switch. If the enemy first pick gets them, then that rarely bothers me because there are only a few times this season where a champion has been totally out of control. If your main falls into that category, then I don't think it is unreasonable to expect a ban.