Does anyone feel like bans are relatively pointless at this very moment in time?
I remember when I was first playing, bans actually felt like a major thing. Bans were to remove the champions who at the time would demand the most presence and would give their team the biggest advantage. Renekton back in season 2, Kassadin pre-nerf/rework, Leblanc, Vayne, etc.
During the juggernaut update, you pretty much banned the juggernauts. At that time, Garen, Darius, Sej and a few others were just massively powerful. So you banned them to prevent the other team from having that advantage.
Remember Bronzodia? That was a fun time.
However at the moment it just feels like bans are... fairly pointless. There are so SO many champions that are just outrageously strong that even if you give every single player a ban (10 bans) it still wouldn't be enough.
There are so many God-Tier champions that even if you ban 10 of them, there's still a ton of champions who are just as strong if not stronger.
Let me just use this website as a guide, it's just one and it probably differs greatly from another one, but it's just one I'll use for now. http://www.nerfplz.com/2017/01/2017-best-champions-tier-list-solo_29.html
Mid Lane: Ahri, Ziggs, Talon, Quinn Jungle: Kha'Zix, Vi, Rengar Top Lane: Quinn, Pantheon, Jayce, Camille Marksman: Miss Fortune, Twitch, Caitlyn, Jhin Support: Janna, Soraka, Blitzcrank, Malzahar
As of right now there are only 6 bans. Using just this list alone with 19 God-Tier champions, you'd still be leaving open 13 God-Tier champions and even one of those champions go through, that team will grab that advantage therefore increasing their chances at victory.
Another problem with banning at this point is that a lot of the counters and checks to those champions are other god-tier champions, so if you ban a champion, you now put yourself at an even bigger disadvantage if one of those champions get through. Edit: I apologize for any errors in writing I may have made. It's 2:42am ><
For instance. Blitzcrank is very strong vs Soraka. However if you ban Blitzcrank and Soraka gets through, you just lost yourself that advantage you would have had if you allowed Blitzcrank through. In the same way, Malzahar is great into Blitzcrank because you have a lot of answers to the hook. You can place a voidling in front of the hook, if you do get hooked you have enough crazy damage to turn the fight and burst down the enemy ADC, or just turn on Blitzcrank himself. But if you ban Malzahar and Blitzcrank gets picked, you don't have that answer now. And so on and so forth.
So the question is, if there are so many champions that are ban-worthy, to the point that the number dwarfs the number of bans, is there even a point to banning at all?
