@Riot Purposely Banning Teammates’ Picks then Falsifying Excuses to Justify is a Punishable Offense

Purposely banning teammate's intended champion is extremely toxic and shameful in league. It is even more shameful to argue that "Banning is to prevent enemy's first pick for the greater good," when your true intention for banning is to troll your teammates. When you ban a teammate's champion because you don't like that champion being played in certain role, then don't make up a pretentious excuse such that you don't want the enemy team to first-pick it. Just imagine how you would feel when you have to waste 30 to 40 minutes of average game length many nights to play a champion you don’t want to play because one of your toxic teammates purposely banned your intended champion. And all it takes to ruin your game is a matter of 1 click during the ban phase. This is not right. And it has to be addressed.

In our League community, there are some kind of toxic people often categorized as closed minded meta-slaves. Such people praise for high-win-rate Meta picks while opposing any off-meta picks or simply any new ideas being brought into the game. Their shameful behavior of banning intended picks can demoralize many decent players who like to play the game in their own ways rather than the ‘correct ways’ being perceived. It is this kind of meta-slaves who often abuse the ban phase to prevent teammates from picking a champion into an unconventional role. This in some way restricts the degree of freedom in which the game can be played; and thus seems very toxic to many players who want to put some of the off-meta champions into actual practice. Riot needs to examine this issue seriously and develop a better system to distinguish the difference between a troll ban and a legit ban.

I would like to offer my personal opinions on how the Queueing System should be changed in order to resolve this issue.

There are the 4 things in the Queueing System I would recommend changing:

1, reinvent the concept of high priority pick (1st pick and 2nd pick). Players cannot ban champions selected from teammates with high priority pick, if the system determines that such teammates on the high priority slots are not trolls. Trolls can be systematically determined in the section described below.

2, the system needs to distinguish between an intended first-time troll pick and a legitimate pick. For example: If after evaluating the match records from the past, the system recognize that a player is a one-trip Jungler who mains Zed in the Jungle with 50% or more play rate from his last 20 ranked games, then such player is obviously not a troll. And if he has high priority pick (1st/2nd); then there is little to no reason to ban his Zed when he already selected him for his Jungle role. Therefore, in this particular instance, Zed should be grayed out during the ban phase. (This goes the same for any other off-meta pick such as Nunu Mid, or Syndra support, etc...)

3, when a player dodge his very first game of the day, it could be because of many different reasons. However, if he dodges a second or third game from that day despite of the increasing penalties, then it may be because he was getting trolled by retards or Meta slaves who like to purposely ban teammate's champion. The system should be able to keep track of and recognize that his selected champion got consistently banned by his own teammates for the previously dodged games. Therefore, he should get high priority pick (1st/2nd) in his next Queue instead of getting the BS low priority queue that is currently in practice.

4, being a Meta slave is not a punishable offense, but purposely banning teammates’ champion IS !!! If a particular champion is strong in a particular role, then it probably is a Meta champion with high play rate in that role as reflected from system’s database. Play rate of the champion should give us some hint as to how we should punish those troll bans while protecting the legit ones. In other words, We could distinguish the troll bans from legit bans by examining the champions’ play rate for that particular role. For example: If a player is caught by the system to consistently ban teammate’s intended champion with less than 1% play rate for that role in multiple games he played, then he will be red-flagged by the system. If a red-flagged player is also reported by some of the victims of his ban after the game, then that person should receive appropriate punishments such as some LP loss, a 2 hour ban or being put in a lower priority queue.