Draft Champion Select Design Flaw

RivetAce··1 votes·347 views

As I've been playing in the new draft mode, one thing has caught my attention as a huge design flaw, and it has to do with the preview portion before the bans. Here's the situation - your team shows what champions they're thinking of playing. You're first pick and you notice that there's a high priority picked/banned champion (X) that one of your last picks wants to play. X makes it through the ban phase and you snatch him up for your team mate. Unfortunately, because you previously selected Y, the other team now knows that you might pick him, because they saw him before you switched to X. They can then either pick Y before you can, or they can counter pick him before you've even locked him in.

This needs to be fixed. The champion preview is nice, but the fact that you can't change or hide your selection before the other team gets a chance to see what you've chosen is a major design flaw in my opinion.

2 Comments

Critmaster Garen1 votes

the opposing team doesnt see your champions unless theyre locked in, do they?

otherwise that would be pretty easy to fix, by making it work exactly like this.

DorkunedAuras1 votes

Everyone, Riot has stated that your pick intent WILL NOT SHOW next patch. This was unintended and is changing, along with a whole bunch of things. Check the boards PLEASE next time.

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/riot-official/zJ4kqlHZ-the-future-of-new-champ-select

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