How to ALWAYS get your preferred role in the new Champ Select

IsmokeOregano·1/13/2016, 1:47:09 PM·3 votes·7,015 views

I was looking up when the new client launches (as i thought it did today) and found out it launches tomorrow. While i was there i decided to read the comments and noticed an overwhelming majority of the people are upset team builder is gone because they aren't garen-teed the role they want, instead they get a 50/50. This isn't necessarily true, there is a way to ALWAYS get the role you want.

Requirements: Que up with at least 1 friend

Choose your primary role, and have your duo choose theirs. Select each other's primary roles as your secondary roles. Using this method you will always get your preferred role, and if you don't you can swap with your pre-made to get it anyways. For example you want to play top and your duo wants to play jungle. Select top for primary role and jungle for secondary and have them select jungle for primary and top for secondary. The match is found and you got top, good! Or, the match is found and you got jungle, ask you friend to trade with you and you got top, good!

To clarify: i am not on PBE, i haven't tested this theory. I just assume it works, why wouldn't it?

EDIT: idea posted above won't work. Keeping thread up so others can with the same idea can see the results. Thanks to shaowsaotome for the info straight from pbe! On the bright side supports and junglers may be getting more popular soon

Requiring two positions ensures short queue times and that no one on your team gets stuck in a position they don't want to play. We know some options (cough support and jungle) aren't always quite as popular, and plan to incentivize these roles with IP bonuses if necessary.

21 Comments

DrCyanide1/13/2016, 2:12:32 PM3 votes

To clarify: i am not on PBE, i haven't tested this theory. I just assume it works, why wouldn't it?

If I recall correctly, they made it so your party needed to have (number of party members) + 1 roles selected to avoid just what you're talking about. So it would let you queue up if you just have 2 people and 2 roles selected.

shadowsaotome1/13/2016, 3:28:32 PM2 votes

Riot has already stated that if you're a duo queuing up in the new champ select, between the two of you there have to be three unique roles selected. I've tested this for myself in the pbe. Your idea won't work.

Who Fed Ahri1/13/2016, 2:06:53 PM1 votes

It's for one day, I'm sure everything will be fine. I think this new champ select and the extra promo win along with the state of the game will make it much easier to climb

1st Movement1/13/2016, 3:34:27 PM1 votes

Not open to Criticism lol this guy if you want to have fun then stop whining and justifying you want a single role and learn to share

1st Movement1/13/2016, 3:44:24 PM1 votes

Oh my bad I misread then. They should randomized the roles based on top three choices because it's kinda hard to find supports in lower Elo. Most people wanna be a hero and play carry roles.

1st Movement1/13/2016, 2:26:54 PM

Don't have a preferred role solution solved