QOL suggestions for champ select
FYI: I mostly play normals duo in blind pick because its easiest and quickest but i think my suggestions carry over to elsewhere and i've tried to add examples of ideas for elsewhere.
**dodge system: **Your team can vote to dodge the match like surrendering ingame in case there's an issue- trolling, harassment, autolocking or you just really want to play a certain role/champ but couldn't get it. Team voted dodge will not cause you to have the wait penalty. I guess it could turn toxic if you feel 'denied' leaving but i'm sure a lot of people would also be kind enough to vote to dodge without penalty if there was a fight over a lane etc. It doesn't have to be negative, everyone can agree to walk away. A great example would be if 2 duo parties end up in the same team and both want to bot lane. You can all just agree to leave and get a new team without an issue.
**kick/report system: **This is a spin on the point above and the issue of getting people who won't cooperate or harassment. Maybe an alternative vote system- opt to kick a player / report so the team gets to dodge without penalty but the person kicked/reported gets a wait timer penalty for causing trouble.
**role/lane call buttons: **People just type out things like 'adc' or 'preferred adc' to call what they want, why not make it an actual part of the interface so everyone can easily see the calls and not waste time to scroll through a bunch of chat to double check things. I know there's been a lot of off meta talk going on so i'm not sure the best way to go about this without making this system visually enforce it but i think it would improve confusion when making a team. Some options would be to have a button for top, mid, bottom, (bottom) support, and jungle- the button could grey out and be unselectable once taken by someone and the role would display by their name/champ icon. Have an option to trade role call and of course it wouldn't actually change ingame...just provide more early clarity and less squabbles beforehand. The biggest issue my friend and I have noticed is that the chat system in the champ select screen lags weirdly. We've noticed among the 2 of us while talking on skype that sometimes the chat comes out in different orders for both of us so we can't tell who actually won a first-come-first-serve call. I guess for ranked, perhaps just add a preferred pick list by your name/icon purely for visuals. Maybe allow a couple/few to be picked and just display them in preferred order. Everyone can still plan in chat too.
call a time out: I know waiting to start can suck sometimes especially after a lot of dodges, but scrambling to fix a problem and not being able to prepare is worse. Add a button to add time to plan (tbd per mode, phase of mode). For example it could be one per team or 1 per game in blind pick (1min?) or add (10sec?) per player for draft modes.
I'll add to the list if anyone wants to chime in. Also, as i said, i don't play all modes and i'm sure there would need to be some minor differences for each and many more details considered.