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Not allowed to choose the champs I want to play, why?

AlmightyMeatwad·11/18/2019, 2:39:38 PM·4 votes·3,793 views

I'm just tired of getting into ranked games and when I shadow-pick Senna, someone on my own team bans her out. "Sorry, I'm not playing with that shit champ" or "F*ck that, if I can't play her, you can't play her" or "If you play her I'm going top lane and trolling". These are all actual responses I've received when trying to play this new champion.

Before Senna, I had seen this situation happen maybe 1 in 40 to 50 games. Now, it happens to me more than 50% of the time with Senna.

The community is COMPLETELY divided about the new champ and what "the pro players" (YouTubers, streamers, etc.) are saying about her and her kit and they don't even care that I have a 60% win-rate with her DESPITE being constantly trolled by my own team when I actually do get to play her. Some of the games I've had with her are disgusting as far as how well I've actually done with her and some are disgusting because my team flames me constantly. I literally have games where my support will start auto-ing minions or using skills to steal my farm or secured kills because "F*ck Senna". I have so many screenshots of hate towards me just simply for picking a champion.

I don't ban other people's picks. What I have to do, based on the system we're given, with zero knowledge of the people I'm queued up with is trust that they actually know how to play the champions they are playing and the roles that they have picked or are being forced to play i.e. Autofill. So if I'm doing that, why should I not also be afforded the same choice in champion selection? If I start queuing up for Solo/Duo and just banning the first person's shadow-pick, that's toxic and tilting as hell! That person is going to play like trash or purposefully troll simply because their choice of who to play was stolen from them.

Why is this type of player behavior being allowed and why does the current system implemented even allow it to happen?

It would be extremely easy to only allow one player to lock a champion at shadow-pick so that no other teammate can ban or pick them. If they want to try and ask for that champ instead, that's what the chat is for. They can attempt a dialogue about their feelings about the champ or see if someone would play someone else and switch with them instead.

48 Comments

GatekeeperTDS11/18/2019, 3:01:20 PM6 votes

Anyone, including yourself, can ban any champion for any reason. This is not a "behavior" that's being allowed. This is how draft pick works, this is how draft pick is always going to work or else it's not draft pick.

17 times a week we see threads about this. You are not always going to get the champion you want. Get used to it or play blind pick.

Imperial Pandaa11/18/2019, 2:49:42 PM5 votes

Question: What is shadow pick? Do you mean pick without hovering intent?

Cause if the champ you want is banned, and you weren't hovering it, I don't have sympathy for anyone.

Senna is new, new champs always get a lot of scrutiny for like the first month. Part of this is due to the fact people will first time them in ranked in every position.

Krissi219711/18/2019, 2:54:10 PM5 votes

You werent here for Yuumi release were you?

rujitra11/18/2019, 4:50:40 PM2 votes

This can literally be turned around the other way - why are other players not allowed to ban the champs they choose to ban?

AJStarhiker11/21/2019, 2:03:01 AM1 votes

A lot of people don't trust new releases and reworks. It's like that pretty much every time. After that, the champion gets patched and players who like the champion have a better idea what they're doing, and the champion loses the Shiny-New factor for everyone else.

Once the champion cycles through their first free week, things usually settle down.

excelsheet111/21/2019, 6:25:26 PM1 votes

I make it a point to ban people's pick intentions. I want to always set the tone that I'm in charge and things are going to go my way.