10 bans: A serious issue that MUST be talked about.

tooddsantotip99·6/1/2017, 5:44:11 AM·2 votes·574 views

10 bans is great, it should happen.

BUT...

Riot wants it like this: you enter champ select and each team get's to simultaneously ban champs

THIS IS NOT GOOD

why? because theres NO strategy behind it, it's just ban who you hate/annoys you.

WAIT, THEN HOW SHOULD 10 BANS BE HANDLED?

Let's look at LCS/MSI:

You start with 3 bans, then pick champs, then you can ban 2, then you pick again, THIS PROMOTES STRATEGY AND UNIQUE INTERACTION WITH BANS.

But 10 simultaneous bans? c'mon

14 Comments

MrHaZeYo6/1/2017, 5:46:18 AM1 votes

The theory as to why it's not like is cuase champ select would take longer.

Kai Guy6/1/2017, 6:22:32 AM1 votes

I far as I have seen there will still be champion intent stage, that's the ideal time to talk about bans. Folks who care about strategy will ban off the threats to team comp and communicate. Folks who religiously ban champion from hate or to follow meta bans will do so, no change there, but you benefit from a net gain of 2 bans. Way I see things as long as its not one of your teams champs enemy bans can and should be ignored, and even if you lose some champs you should ideally (not be a foolish one tricker) have back up options. If folks are smart they will use champ intent wiser then we do now.

DunkinNoobs6/1/2017, 4:53:06 PM1 votes

You'll never get Solo Q to ban differently. They don't care about strategy; they care about having fun. So they ban the most overpowered champs and the most annoying champs.

Kal Vas Flam6/1/2017, 4:55:38 PM1 votes

This is the ONLY way to do it. We can't spend 10 minutes every game banning champions (that's a lil hyperbole, sure, but you get my drift). They have to maintain a fun and engaging pace, spending anymore time banning would be a huge turn off.

And there is strategy, just ban the champ that most counters the one you plan on playing. Same as before really just with less time being wasted.

darkmatchwaldo6/1/2017, 5:29:33 PM1 votes

There's definitely a strategy idlk if you just didn't think about it but it's really interesting.

Are you gonna waste your ban on Yasuo because the other team will ban him...or will you ban it anyways because fuck Yasuo you aren't taking any chances. Banning at the same time makes it a mind game.

The pro play format is cool but it's just not viable for solo queue in my opinion. There'd just be so much going on. Sure it's possible, i would actually really enjoy it. I just know the complexity of the strategy would be lost on most low level players.

The MSI format is just for that....pro play. Coordinated bans on specific positions. They also have the advantage of KNOWING who they're playing againt. You know the champion pool of the enemy so you can fully utilize the second ban phase. In solo queue, people just ban what they don't wanna play against.

That's just my take on it. I'd like to see the pro ban system in solo queue but i am still a huge fan of the ban system they're giving us.