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Some ideas for Team Builder

Reitokage·3/11/2014, 7:44:47 AM·9 votes·1,027 views

After the first day of playing a good bit of team builder i've noticed some things that personally i would like to see added and maybe some of you can agree with me. I'll be making a list adding on new ideas as they come to me. some of if not most of these ideas may already be thought out and planned to be put in already but i'm still putting them out there for that small chance.

  1. Keep in the champion swap button and make it a role swap button so people can take over roles if they aren't too popular to speed up the queue times.

  2. Being able to cancel a certain role queue to swap it out for example maybe you don't want a Top Fighter and want a Top Tank. instead of canceling the whole queue and losing good people add a little X button like the normal cancel queue button to stop that type of queue so you'll be able to change it, IMO it will make the whole Team Builder go a lot smoother.

  3. As suggested and all credit to King of Limbs33, Add in a random role button for people who are flexible enough to play any type of role which would make the queue times shorter.. Basically a Fill button

  4. Be able to change your champion after getting into the game lobby to maybe better suit your team, but have a vote pop up for the captain to accept the champion change.

20 Comments

Pyrrasu3/12/2014, 5:45:57 AM4 votes

I really like #2. We had set "jungle/tank" one time while making a room, but after 10 minutes of waiting, we really just wanted to get into the game. Would be nice to change it to "jungle/any" without having to disband our group and everything, as long as it alerts everyone in the room of the change.

MrMagpie3/11/2014, 9:53:39 PM3 votes

Love the new mode. Long queue times are obviously something to work out in the beta. I would suggest adding a "random" roll for players (not captains). If you choose random, any champ you have available to you could be selected, matching on types selected by the captains. This will allow gaps in the queue to be filled, but add flexibility to the selection process. For the players, it would be similar to playing "ARAM". You could end up with the weeks free champs plus ones in your inventory.

In general, there seems to be a shortage of jungles and supports. I play support, ppl are very glad to see me in queue...lol

Righteous Chikin3/11/2014, 3:37:02 PM2 votes

I Agree, also be able to extend invite and all that. KEEP THIS MODE PLZ!

CrimsonBlader243/12/2014, 10:35:43 AM2 votes

One improvement that would be nice to see is this:

When making a team on Team Builder, I invited a few friends, and clicked to find random solo players for the last available spots. But then I was no longer able to invite more friends, so I had to restart the queue just to invite one more friend. There should be an option to stop searching for solo players so that you can invite friends again.

Slamper3/11/2014, 4:37:53 PM2 votes

Love the mode so far. The swap button would be great, could have used it first queue up, being a team builder style setup it just makes sense. It would be nice to see what people are using as for masteries and runes so that the team has an idea of how they need to play with them. Team builder would be a great place to implement this imo. Just thoughts!!

Omega Dominari3/12/2014, 5:26:44 AM1 votes

Your ideas are solid, with good background to root them. Especially the "random" button, I think that is especially awesome. I agree that it would make Q's shorter, filling in that last role. But, I feel that the other suggestions may actually add to the overall waiting to join games.

  1. Role swap - Who decides if it s viable swap? Captain? Team? Also if you get 2 people joining as a duo who don't like 1 person the trolls happen...

  2. The tank/fighter/duo top button should be in place, but it would make longer queue times. Your suggestion would actually halt the team selection by first maintaining that everyone agrees that a tank is better than a fighter top. Just saying.

  3. (Accepted) Wonderful Idea. But, is there a way to eliminate the troll? Cuz there always will be. Figure that out and it's golden (I know it's impossible, but that's still a genius idea [albeit already thought of])

  4. What? Game is already started, but you can choose to change? Load times would increase dramatically. Impossible.

Ravenfeather3/12/2014, 5:35:48 AM1 votes

I'd like to see a Teambuilder queue added where you queue up for a role only, without a champion. It matches five people together that all want that particular role, and from there it would proceed like a Draft game type. You get many of the perks from each game type that way, while also in a format suitable for Ranked play, not to mention giving you the option to counter your opponents picks and ban out certain champions.

On the other hand, I love Teambuilder so far! It's a fantastic idea that I wish was thought of a long time ago, as it helps remove fighting with your team over who goes where.

buzer3/12/2014, 7:37:55 AM1 votes

Have a listing showing which roles are needed so it can be chosen. Have a timer to join

Smoking mayor3/12/2014, 9:23:29 PM1 votes

it s good. i like the team builder beta.

FaLLEn ANgeLZz3/11/2014, 2:17:28 PM1 votes

im really thinking about to stop.... this absolutely the worst update so far...

ZhaneelOk3/14/2014, 12:28:17 AM1 votes

Collolary to #2 (which I like quite a bit) the ability to be somewhat open about a role.

Like Top: Fighter/Tank

Or At least one tank between Top/Jungle

We had a time where we did Top Tank and it took forever (we killed the queue after 10 min) and people were leaving the Marksman/Jungle spots (Captain was Mid, I was Support). I really think a lot less people like playing Tank in those roles and/or didn't understand the implication of Fighter vs. Tank in the setup for queuing solo.

EpicPonySlayer3/11/2014, 10:17:49 PM1 votes

1.I think the queue times are WAY TOO LONG almost as long as it takes item 3089Khazix to kill a item 3065 item 3083 item 3083 item 3083 item 3083 item 3026 DrMundo 2. PLZ KEEP THIS MODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eatacay3/11/2014, 10:44:22 PM1 votes

Simple suggestion: duo or trio queue without a captain.

ATM, lots of friends queue up together with a captain. Not as many people solo queue in team builder, it seems. My suggestion would allow groups of people to be placed under an unrelated captain.

djump3/11/2014, 10:40:30 PM1 votes

I like these suggestions, especially 3. (the random role button). I know they've said they're thinking about that and may very well add it in the future but that they just wanted to get a simple, basic version out first. I hope the add that feature!

hexxodus3/11/2014, 10:56:00 PM1 votes

Suggestion, IP incentive for lesser picked roles.