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Pre-Game ban trolling - A Workaround

Sehuani·12/5/2017, 1:07:40 AM·1 votes·450 views

Recently I had a friend ban the champion I intended to play as a joke. He thought it would be funny, it wasn't. I reacted poorly by deciding to "run it down mid" the entire game. My own friend reported me, and I got banned for 14 days. This was my first ban ever in League of Legends. It seems almost unfair that my friend gets to troll without repercussions, but when I attempt to troll I get punished.

I began thinking, how could I have avoided this situation? For starters, I could have just played the game out on a viable pick, and not fed the enemy team. But what about the pre-game issue (when my champion got banned by my friend)? How could I have solved that? The answer is, I couldn't have. There is no way to prevent someone from banning the champion you intend to play, seeing as how all Summoner's are able to ban who they want. How can Riot fix this issue?

It goes without saying that bans are an important part of playing a match of League. There is strategy behind the game before it even starts. Riot needs to keep bans in. However, Riot also let's you choose a champion that you intend to play before the banning phase begins. This notifies your team what kind of role you are thinking about filling throughout the game, whether that be tank, dps, support, off-tank, etc.

Why doesn't Riot make it so when you choose a champion before banning phase, that champion becomes unbannable by your team and your team only. The other team would still be able to ban that champion, and your team would not be able to "troll" you by banning the same champion. This is my suggestion, tell me what you guys think. Maybe we can get this change implemented.

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ModThe Djinn12/5/2017, 1:12:41 AM3 votes

{quoted}Why doesn't Riot make it so when you choose a champion before banning phase, that champion becomes unbannable by your team and your team only. The other team would still be able to ban that champion, and your team would not be able to "troll" you by banning the same champion. This is my suggestion, tell me what you guys think. Maybe we can get this change implemented.

Imagine that a champion (let's say Malzahar, as there's been a lot of complaining about him lately) is SUPER strong in lane. He's lane defining, and my 4th pick wants him, but the enemy has first pick. I really struggle against Malz, and I don't want to play on a team against him. I ask if our first pick or second pick have him to trade to our mid -- and they don't. That's now THREE picks the enemy would get to pick up a game-defining champion.

Suddenly I can't ban this super-strong, probably-selected champion that I feel SHOULD be banned so the enemy team doesn't get him. That's an awful feeling to have going in to ranked.

Riot knows they can't make everyone happy, and they've opted onto letting each player get their own ban.

HalcyonDweller12/6/2017, 10:08:51 PM1 votes

In theory I like your idea, but in practice it would not hold up.

Why don't you do what I do instead? Hover something similar to what you want to play, so your team knows the general role / playstyle you intend to use, and wait to hover your actual choice until after they finish ban phase.

This way your team still knows your playstyle and can coordinate bans to get rid of things that might counter you, but there is no possible way for them to know who you intend to play so if they ban that champion then you will know it wasn't to troll you but was instead out of fear of playing against it.

This protects their freedom to ban who they don't want to play against while also protecting you from somebody who would maliciously ban your intended pick because if they do they just ban the other thing that you only pretended to want to play.