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Why do we still allow other players to ban declared champs?

Rita Book·12/2/2018, 1:18:58 AM·2 votes·1,540 views

So I was in a non-ranked draft right now and I declared Sivir as my character. I my role was bottom.

Another player then banned Sivir and said in chat "lol Sivir. Brainded champ. I don't want to play jungle. Please dodge so I can go into another game."

I was shocked. I asked why he banned my character. The other player said so that I would be discouraged and then dodge, and so that he wouldn't incur the dodge penalty. At that point I realized my selection timer was running out and I desperately tried to pick another ADC quickly, but then it did and I was kicked out. Most of my timer had been spent trying to understand what had happened to my character and where she had gone, then in shock.

That player, by accident got what they wanted. A new game and me paying for in in dodge penalty.

I am SO sick of other players be able to ban a character that one of their teamates have declared. Please stop this.

7 Comments

Crispy0Snake12/2/2018, 2:40:51 AM5 votes

This is an awful idea... If one of my allies wants to play something meta and they're not first pick, I might ban it because I don't want to play against it.

On the same note, if I'm first pick, I will often pick it for them!

Sure trolls and e-scumbags exist but what can ya do. You could play another waveclear adc like Trist/Jinx and pay more attention to the ban phase!

Kei14312/2/2018, 2:15:20 AM3 votes

Cos it sucks to have your yasuo feed 5 million kills while their yasuo is always godlike.

Moral of story, always ban yasuo.

TrulyBland12/2/2018, 2:34:55 AM3 votes

Let's ignore your specific example for a second and ask ourselves: What's the purpose of banning champions at all? To make sure they don't end up on the enemy team.

So, why is it allowed to ban declared champs? To make sure they don't end up on the enemy team.

That's as simple as it gets.

Coming back to your specific example: Sure, people can use that feature to piss others off... but the same applies to being able to block high priority bans by hovering them.

LetMeCarry198312/2/2018, 8:54:43 AM2 votes

You know, if people would lock in troll picks every time this happens, people would stop doing it. Just like how every Korean knows that if they feed, their allies would open mid. Do your part. Lock in a troll pick and watch as your team falls apart when it doesn't do so well. Let it be burned into their souls what happens when someone bans a team mate's pick. We need the players to enforce this standard so we never have to deal with this shit ever again.

SSJuniverse12/2/2018, 2:24:36 AM1 votes

I think the arguement is you should know, or be trying to learn a wide selection of champs. Which i agree with but that shouldnt shut down somone who is a one trick player. I feel like atleast in a rank game pre-selected champs shouldnt be bannable by teammates

TheProfezzor12/2/2018, 7:01:19 AM1 votes

People can be assholes. That being said. If that was ranked and in my elo (gold) I don’t trust yasuos unless there are knock up champs...so yeah I may ban your declared champ if most players aren’t good with them.