Team builder needs to be ranked and here's why

CarbonWyre·4/25/2014, 5:11:27 PM·1 votes·419 views

Imagine your standing in a line. Now imagine the ones you have been queued with are also standing in that line. Your positioning in the line doesn't really matter.

Now imagine, the fifth person in line was just hit by a car and is starting to bleed out and is trying to call an ambulance because no one was kind enough to do it for him.

The fourth person in line has 1 item and cash.

The third person needs to purchase a bus pass NOW or they will miss the last bus of the night have not have a way home.

The second person only brought a credit card to pay with and hasn't yet realize that what the person is so annoyingly yelling is that the pinpad is broken.

The first person doesn't get paid till tomorrow and has decided that instead of waiting to shop, they will pay for $40 worth of beef jerky and ramen in nickles dimes and penny, no quarters.

Now if I asked you to organize this list based on who needs to be served first, that's easy. Fifth, third, forth, first, second (because they can't be helped).

The above answer is what you get when you use teambuilder. Everyone gets served in the best possible way in a way that makes sure everyone is ok.

But the answer you get in ranked right now is: First, they got there first Explain to second for 5 minutes you can't help them Make third late and now he can't go home, that's his fault Serve forth Let fifth die from bleeding out.

You see why this is wrong?

4 Comments

Sir ArmaMalum4/25/2014, 6:50:16 PM2 votes

Riot has agreed a Teambuilder-esq system is wanted, but they have to first come up with a way to make it work with bans, draft pick and counter-picking. As AlphaKiloGaming said, in its current iteration TB cannot function properly outside of Blind Pick. All in all, they're working on it don't worry.

Kikirino4/25/2014, 5:38:23 PM1 votes

Kind of an extreme example but the point is valid. I wouldn't want teambuilder for ranked though in it's current state. If I say I want Vi jungle and we get in there and she gets banned then my team won't be getting the jungler they expected. I would like for us to just be able to queue as our preferred lane. That is where all the issues stem from. But if Riot did that then the queues would be stupidly long because we will have to wait for someone to queue up for the less popular roles. Like support or adc. Either way, the system will have serious drawbacks than will stop it from being added.