Team Builder's importance as a Queue Type

irod1723·1/14/2016, 11:38:26 PM·3 votes·564 views

Dear Riot,

In coordination with the new champ select experience, you have decided to remove Team Builder. While I can understand why you would want to do this in order to push the new champ select, there are some great errors in this mentality. Disregarding the current problems with the new champ select, because they will be ironed out and made to be smooth, Team Builder was a great part of queuing up for League of Legends. It allowed a player to play the specific champion that they wanted, in the specific role that they wanted and allowed players to join a team comp they are comfortable with. Even though the wait times were longer than other queues, it was worth it to get the champ, role and team that you wanted. Additionally, the possibility of creating a multiple person party that once again gave everyone the role they wanted and the gaps were filled by other players. For example, one role that I always find to be sought after is Middle Lane. In Blind Pick, the "dibs" system makes the possibility of getting mid essentially a one in five chance. In the old Draft Pick, the ability to go middle lane is determined by the order of picks, not securing the role desired but rather giving a chance at it.

Now, with the new champ select that is meant to make Team Builder obsolete, there are at least 3 glaring problems: 1. The role that you want is not necessarily what you are going to get. I can see the reason behind this, seeing as if everyone were to get the role they wanted queue times would be longer, similar to Team Builder. The need for a fast queue system is understandable, but in my opinion not necessary 2. The champion that you want to play can either be banned or picked before you There's not much to say in this part, other than what has already been said. 3. PEOPLE DO NOT FOLLOW THE ROLES THEY'VE BEEN ASSIGNED This issue is by far the worst that I have seen. In many situations when someone queues up and does not get the role that the put as their primary role, they choose to disregard their assigned role and either take another role from someone else and/or threaten to troll/fed/afk etc. This is unfair to those who get the role that is disputed and unfair to those who have to put up with the fighting on their team.

So, Riot, I understand that you probably will not read this thread or if you do it will not affect your decision making much. However in an attempt to try to demonstrate that people want Team Builder back, I have added a pole. Please take all that I've said into consideration.

Thank you

1 Comments

DemonBoneJangles1/15/2016, 1:08:44 AM1 votes

well said sir, I upvote you with all my heart [zombie-brand-clap]