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Banning another players pick intent is justified

KORGtuners·1/3/2017, 7:55:59 PM·4 votes·1,640 views

This is quoted directly from the Summoners Code. > While we all carry a diverse set of individual ambitions and expectations into a game of League of Legends, once we hit the Field we're a part of a team. For better or worse, our fates are intertwined with that of our teammates. Once the game gets into full swing, you have to make a choice between being a positive force for your team, or contributing to your own demise.

>** Being a good team player begins at champion select. Be open minded when considering the needs of your team. If you're the last one to pick, try to fill a niche in your team that hasn't already been filled.** If everyone's picked and something stands out as a deficiency in your team composition, try asking for another player to fill the gap, or change roles to embrace that responsibility yourself. Remember, that by taking on a role you don't normally play, you'll learn more about unfamiliar champions and increase your own skill level.

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Jo0o1/3/2017, 8:09:14 PM12 votes

And you're not even going to slightly clarify that logical leap?

Cosmo Memoria1/3/2017, 10:24:20 PM9 votes

op sounds retarded.

YerroFever1/4/2017, 3:13:14 AM5 votes

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My only thought is: disable pick intent until after ban phase.

This is also a terrible suggestion.

The point of enabling pick intent is to begin the discussion about team composition early on and strategically pick your bans around your team comp so that you have the highest chance of winning.

If you open the discussion before when you have more time, people aren't last second picking, which tends to make people pick their go to's rather than build a functional team comp.

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Also, bans are not there for your teams needs, directly. They are there to limit your opponents options. Which indirectly bolsters your own teams strengths.

You clearly agree that bans are to help your team, not to limit your own team.

You keep quoting the Summoner's Code like it's the Bible or something but what you are asking is everyone else to let you do what you want without being reported.

This is the same exact mentality you had in the other thread about how people shouldn't report you.

Clearly you have been getting warnings or temp bans or chat restrictions or something that is prompting you to try and defend your actions by trying to twist the summoner's code to support you, however, your interpretations are completely self centered and are used in attempts to justify your own actions rather than how the Summoner's Code was intended, as a guideline for the community on how to treat each other, not "Riot's Guide On How Make League of Legends Fun for KORGtuners And Nobody Else"

Truly Prideful1/4/2017, 6:34:50 PM4 votes

Why ban their pick intent rather than just asking them if they can play something else? It's easier to just communicate and not waste a ban starting a fight in champion select with your teammate.

shark music1/3/2017, 9:02:52 PM3 votes

The only time it's reasonable to ban someone's pick is when their pick is dangerous/unrealistic. Like the person with fifth pick wants to play Blitz or Lux. In that situation the chances of them getting snaked is so high compared to the odds of that champion lasting until the final pick, you have some kind of argument for an over rule ban. A weak argument, but still...

Personally, I still wouldn't ban someone's intent, because 1) it's rude, regardless of the reasoning behind it, and 2) there are no champions who scare me, but I can see where a less experienced player might be so terrified of a particular champion that they get froggy and make that jump.

Plus, you don't know other players' rosters. Maybe their intent is the only champion they own from that category. Maybe they just bought that champ, or maybe they just spent $25 on a new skin. Maybe they just spent two hours studying youtube videos of that champ, or memorizing their build strats. You don't know why people pick a champion, or which champions they own, so banning someone else's selection is an act of ignorance and arrogance, which means you're already a hypocrite on the "Being a good team player begins at champ select." point.

YerroFever1/4/2017, 5:04:03 AM3 votes

Just keep trolling, keep getting reports and be constantly chat banned, be put in lower priority queues, I'm done trying to explain why you shouldn't be an asshat to the community and you just don't care.

The only thing that emanates from your posts is, "My behavior is acceptable and is not toxic! Stop telling me otherwise! Believe me! I'm right! Really I am! I swear it!"

Risk of Fate1/3/2017, 8:27:51 PM2 votes

If you ban a champion that someone else picked without any given sound reasoning, then you're a jerk. There have been times I've banned my own teammates picks, but I didn't go "hurr, let's grab so they don't have." I would ask if they can guarantee them getting it through first/second pick if they're 4/5th pick If they can't, I have to ban because chances are they will grab it and beat us.

In the same regard, I've had my picks taken from me because they think either I'm bad with them or won't work out. Yes I get salty that you banned it, but I try to relax and pick something else unless what they banned and my team banned absolutely screwed us over like in the case where a lot of junglers were banned and my 2 comforts were taken out.

This is why you chat with your team. If nobody talks, you get nothing done.