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Some other point of view about Normal Draft Removal

abixbg·11/9/2016, 1:29:46 PM·1 votes·753 views

Lets talk about the basic stuff. I think playing League shouldn't be separated to Ranked and Normal and here is why:

You are giving Ranked elo huge importance in people's mind: "If you are bronze you are shit". Noone want people to think they are shit so they tryhard and rage much more if they beleive its team's fault. If you have less to lose you can focus on getting improvement even if you lose a single match. Ranked Queues makes people try hard and literally worry that if they lose more than just a few IP points - their ego is hurt. You can say every competitative game is like that but LoL is a game where 5 people play against 5 not 5 vs 2+3. Real competition plays should be only 5v5 and every other type of game should be perceived as playgorund for improvement OR just fun casual and relaxing match.

Rito Pls make current Ranked System default and REMOVE NORMAL DRAFT. Blind pick should be something that will make people look at it as another "fun" not so competitive mode like ARAM or Rotation modes You can even place Blind pick as rotation mode! Why not?

People will stop raging so hard when they know that this is their current elo and not something that is specifically more important.

So in the end you will end up with:

  • SoloQ League (former Ranked Solo/Duo) with end season rewards (Loading frame/badge, gold skins. etc )
  • FlexQ League (former Normal Draft) basically non-competitive mode but with tier system and smaller end season rewards (icon)
  • PRO League (former Ranked 5v5) /calling it pro will attract more people to try it (and probably quickly realizing they are not PRO)
  • ARAM
  • TT
  • Blind pick as rotation mode

Personally If this was made I would probably mainly play FlexQ and try to assemble good Team to play 5v5. And i suppose players that wanted SoloQ back will be happy they will have it.

6 Comments

Daklore11/9/2016, 1:49:54 PM4 votes

I agree that making blind the only mode is... penalizing. If Riot has to remove normal draft--which apparently they believe they want too in an ideal world--they need to bring back team builder in place of blind pick... or at least do -something- to change blind pick from the mad scramble "I CALLED IT!" toxicity pit that I remember as blind pick. I don't play blind pick for that reason--unless I'm in a full five man... and even then, I like being able to ban some of the broken champions that still haven't been fixed... (glaring at you, Zed)

Oglaf11/9/2016, 1:39:22 PM3 votes

The solution, to me, is obvious:

The reason why Blind is more popular is that you need to purchase quite a few Champions before you qualify for Draft. As such either

  1. Increase the weekly rotation size to include enough Champions for even the freshest of account to qualify.
  2. Give everyone the 450 IP Champions for free. This _should _qualify a new account if my poor math is correct.
Wild Wes11/9/2016, 1:57:50 PM3 votes

Blind is what helps League to be toxic. People say "oh I called it first" after someone auto locks jungle or some shit. Honestly I love draft because you hardly get people like that because everyone gets what they want.

x Kuro x11/9/2016, 3:04:45 PM1 votes

Bring back teambuilder, to replace blind pick. It was a much less toxic environment.

I don't think we need Flex vs Pro queues. We just need a promise from Riot that Flex queue will never put a 1-1-1-1-1 team against a premade 5 team. Currently I bet it will, and that is just dumb. It should be only 1-4, and maybe 2-3 vs full-5.

They don't have a "full 5 only" Pro queue, because the queutimes for it would be measured in hours.