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Insane amount of "broken" champions with a need for more bans.

Slim Gragas·5/23/2019, 7:29:42 AM·3 votes·1,877 views

I think we need more like 10 bans per team given there are never enough to go around anymore, with all the balance issues that inevitably happen way more often now with the mixture of Runes Reforged, items, and champion balancing it's been terrible this season. This is further supported given the same teams often ban one or two duplicate champions based on just how broken they are. I think it could also be pretty fun so people could actually learn new champions instead of spamming the same one like Lux or Morgana since Riot seems to be a lot more slow with nerfing certain broken things than others. I can't tell you how many times it's been a situation like "Alright well Lux is an obvious ban, but my team didn't have much good bans so the enemy team just picked Vladimir, Darius, Karthus, Vayne, and Nautilus so GG". While it even sounds like a joke as im saying this, it honestly seems that shit is just so dumb right now that it'd be worth it, cause IM tired of often giving into meta-slaving myself.

14 Comments

rujitra5/23/2019, 7:32:04 AM1 votes

Uh... no.

There's not a single champion in this game without at least a couple counters. There aren't more than 5-10 who don't have enough counters to be able to play against even if the primary counters are banned.

You (or your team) not knowing the game/meta does not mean there's "never enough [bans] to go around". It means you're not communicating with your team and determining the best way to use your bans based on what you are all comfortable playing and own.

BTW, the 5 champs you list (vlad, karthus, darius, vayne, and naut) all have at least 5-6 different counters each. If your team comp was shit against that team comp, that's not Riot's fault, it's your team's.

Morgana Dominus5/23/2019, 5:18:09 PM1 votes

What if you just got good at the game and accepted that the reason you lose is a lack of skill and experience and not because of some boogeyman broken champion?

U R Good At Game5/23/2019, 6:56:42 PM1 votes

The bigger issue imo is that everything is broken when fed and league is in a state right now where someone on each team in game is always like 10-0 so it's essentially a 1v1 while the other players walk around helplessly getting one-shot by the other teams fed guy.

Audhulma5/23/2019, 7:11:42 PM1 votes

10 bans per team wouldn't solve anything, the next 20 strongest champions would simply become the new "OP" thing that people beg for nerfs on.

Quality Content5/24/2019, 2:00:20 AM1 votes

Ten bans should be plenty if Riot was quicker about tackling problems. They sit on the fence about nerfing champs for several patches before finally giving in with a nerf they could have done weeks ago. Case and point: Riven. Should it have taken as long as they did to shift two cooldowns? Definitely not. They also did this most of last year with Aatrox/Irelia/Akali where they waited too long to do anything substantial.