There has been absolutely no riot response re: criticism of the removal of Team Builder.

3Power·1/12/2016, 9:27:48 PM·1 votes·443 views

Hundreds of forum comments, reddit comments, and blog post comments about how much it sucks that team builder is getting deleted and not a single riot response.

No response to how the removal of queuing as a specific champion is a huge step backwards when it comes to player choice.

No response to how the removal of blind pick makes way more sense.

No response to doubts that someone who queues primary top secondary support will ever get to play top.

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Deep Terror Nami1/12/2016, 9:31:50 PM3 votes

Actually, they went over it already and just have nothing more to say until we've actually been able to use it. If you want to read their take on it;

http://eune.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/new-champ-select-replaces-team-builder

Since introducing the experimental Team Builder queue back in 2013, we’ve been analyzing and rethinking the best way to get into a game of League. The lessons we learned from the Team Builder queue directly impacted the development of new champ select.

We’d originally planned to adopt Team Builder across all queues, but as our first attempt at improving the experience of starting a League match, a few issues held us back. While Team Builder successfully empowered individual players to choose the champ they wanted in the role they wanted each time, it wasn’t as good at helping teams assemble a specific strategy or composition. Building a Yasuo-based knock-up comp or a classic Orianna-oriented wombo combo was damn hard when non-premade players pre-selected their champs. Long queue times made turning down champions that didn’t fit while waiting for your team’s missing piece feel even worse.

With new champ select, we’ve solved the issues we found with Team Builder. Teams get on the same page and start working together through pick intent and distributed bans right from the start. You’re guaranteed to get one of the two positions you prefer, and you can use pick intent to let your team know who you’re looking to play before bans and picks take place.

We ultimately decided to disable the Team Builder queue because we believe new champ select is a better answer to many of the problems we were trying to solve with Team Builder, and in the future we’ll introduce a version of blind pick inspired by the new design for players who are looking for the new champ select experience without bans or drafting.

HEAljvLykd1/12/2016, 9:36:46 PM2 votes

The new queue is basically team builder wtf can people not read?

Dukues1/12/2016, 9:43:58 PM2 votes

Team builders sucks that's why