Pick Order vs Team Effectiveness

Primaquarius·8/31/2015, 9:00:02 PM·2 votes·237 views

While toiling away at ranked and trying to get more than 30 LP, (nearly always falling back to 0 like some hellish roller coaster of wasted efforts) I often come across someone who is devoted to "Pick Order".

My opinion of this is simple, yet impossible for most to grasp: Pick Order is nothing more than a tool used by those first in line for a champion to score their favored lane, and like a syndrome, people latch onto this like a spreading virus as though this is something logical. It isn't, and never was, because Ranked is first and foremost AN ACTUAL TEAM-BASED MATCH. Teams are those who have synergy, which comes from having a role they are good at, not a role they end up ruining a side's chances of victory. Every time I am on the first pick, whoever calls a lane first is the one who gets it, and that's how it should be. This statement I can back with the solid assumption that one does not call for a role they don't feel 100% up to.

Pick Order doesn't usually affect me, since I always call for Mid or Support. Its just the domineering aspect of it I can't stand.

1 Comments

50000000000000008/31/2015, 9:10:27 PM1 votes

Pick order is a guideline made by community, because nobody likes it when there are two people claiming that they called mid first. Although, I'm with you in that teammates should talk about what lanes everyone would prefer.