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Pick Intent is helpful, but not in the way you are thinking!

Maximum Morde·3/15/2016, 12:05:41 PM·3 votes·822 views

The information gained from pick intent abuse is so valuable that it offsets the disadvantages of pissing off your team.

You can stop your team mate from picking a disaster pick.

That is one of the most obvious benefits of banning your own teams pick intent, but the real benefit to banning your own teams intent is the next one.

It serves as a litmus test for toxicity and maturity.

If I ban my own teams champ and they start raging hard then I know they are a toxic player before the game even starts and can make my decision at that point rather than being stuck 30+ minutes with them.

If they instead move on without raging and pick something else, then I know that person is more emotionally stable and is probably going to be a good team member. It makes me feel bad for banning their pick at that point but the knowledge gained was worth the price.

Ever since I've started doing this every game and then dodging if a toxic shitter was revealed, my winrate has gone up by about 10%.

17 Comments

disregardable3/15/2016, 12:39:01 PM6 votes

Do you know what I did the last time my pick intent was banned? I picked something else. Then I spent the whole game following that guy around and trying to deny him any resource he wanted. He went 0/4/0 and raged in chat. Our team lost, but I won. ^_^

Troll banners are why I never use pick intent. But of course the ONE time I had just logged on and not even thought about it, my pick gets banned.

peaches7713/15/2016, 12:52:32 PM5 votes

You're what's wrong with the community...

CooL Ice Tea3/15/2016, 12:27:17 PM3 votes

Would wonder how much your winrate would grow when you let people play their main roles.

I trained 2 champions very hard for every lane i go. If i go jungle and you ban my wukong there is only 1 champ left for me, if the enemy jungler goes for lee sin now i can go for my casual Vi pick which i do about once in two weeks.

I would thank you very much and wait for the moment ingame when you tell me how shitty my jungle game goes. THEN i would start to argue with you.

Anyway i think i can remember its reportable to ban the champs your team wants to pick if they call it with this "pick intent".

Astôlfo3/15/2016, 7:26:31 PM1 votes

And then you get reported, and with enough reports, potentially banned. Hope to see you back here shortly. ^^

Serika Zero3/15/2016, 12:48:48 PM1 votes

I will ban your own pick (if I can) and then troll your game to make sure you lose. I'll definitely try to get you on tilt. I'll do my best to give you the shittiest experience you ever had in case you don't dodge. Also, I won't chat in that game.

So yeh, if you ban my hero. You lost the game. You are free to dodge the queue and lose LP. While saving me from losing LP <3 Whatever you do, its a win-win for me. And a lose-lose for you.

And as far as winrates go. I'm sitting at 60%. Yes, with this attitude. Yes, while intentionally trolling my own games in case I find an asshole that bans my champions. Get on my level, scrub.

Duke Anax3/15/2016, 12:19:49 PM1 votes

there is a more effective way that doesn't piss of youir good teammates straight away: Pick intent something like Soraka jungle, then pick Taric.

If they are still with you at that point, you got a good team.

MegaShroom90003/15/2016, 2:43:41 PM1 votes

I've been saying since PBE, that this pick-intent enables jerks and trolls like the OP. I almost never declare my pick intent, and the whole process is a waste of time, because a lot of people just pick a random champ they don't intend to use to avoid jerk bans.