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It has been said before, and I'm saying it again. New champions should NOT be selectable in ranked

Hay5eed·1/16/2020, 7:22:32 AM·2 votes·1,228 views

They should be banned for a week minimum but honestly two weeks is the best option.

Patches come out every two weeks, so if there is a game breaking bug involving the new champion, or there is a high skill cap, or the champion is overtuned, or overpowered, or even underpowered, the dev team has a chance to fix it BEFORE it starts affecting peoples ranked games.

I don't want Sett on the enemy team. Why? Cause my top laner has no idea how to fight him and will feed him, and then the 12/0 Sett will destroy my team.

Guess what? I ALSO don't want Sett on MY team. Why? Because my top laner hasn't played him before and will feed.

If my top laner wants Sett and I ban him anyways? They dodge.

Riot continuously releases new champions without any exact knowledge on how this champion will affect the meta, which champions will counter them, which champions THEY will counter, optimal build-paths for or against them and yet they expect US to be able to do the same. It's flat out not right and just like so many other features that has come to League (5 bans per team, bans distributed across the team, replay function, custom training tool, etc) it makes me wonder why/how it takes so long to do something like this.

Riot has actively banned champions before, weather it was for game breaking bugs, being overpowered, or simply because they wanted to promote an event that was currently on going (cough cough Gangplank cough cough). So simply banning champions in ranked because they are new and Riot has only the roughest idea on how powerful the new champion would be seems both easy to do and great for the player experience.

If you don't agree with me on this because I am using Sett as an example, just replace Sett with Aphelios....yeah

5 Comments

FURRY V21/16/2020, 7:34:51 AM1 votes

I think it has been said before, ban them on rankeds.

SirWimder1/16/2020, 7:45:32 AM1 votes

So I say no, and simply here is why.

2 weeks of a champ being out is not the problem. That just means for 2 weeks you wont have to deal with it....if this is the case simply ban it.

during those 2 weeks, that the new champ is ban, does it stop someone playing a champion such as Ryze who has been out since the game launch....that has played zero games.

Learn to role with the punches my friend. You might be in a game with the next faker...who only needed seet released to become so......granted the odds dont favor it. But from my point of view this is simply a logical fallacie

ZephyrDrake1/16/2020, 11:41:17 AM1 votes

I have said this before and i'll say it again. You could ban new champions for an entire month. It literally would not stop people from just not playing the champion for the entire month and first picking him as soon as he is available in ranked. A lot of people only play ranked and barely, if ever, touch normals. People here seem to have this really weird perception that others would go out of their way to play a mode just to play this random new champion when there is literally nothing making them do so. Also people seem here to also have this incredibly weird perception that people who pick their champions in ANY mode somehow know how to use them. There are people who don't even know how to use Annie in any decent capacity and how old is she? Whether people have zero or a million games played with whatever champion it won't stop them from feeding, it won't stop them from doing stupid mistakes and it won't even mean that they even know what the champion does or is capable of. Banning new champions from ranked literally does nothing at all.