Banning hovered champs.

nabokov·10/24/2017, 9:03:19 PM·1 votes·784 views

It can be annoying when your teammates ban your hovered pick in champ select. I have heard all sorts of solutions to this problem including making it a reportable offense or just straight up not possible. These 'solutions' don't sit right with me though, and seem to limit and impede your teammates in just the same way you might feel limited when your champ is banned. Say if your last pick wants to play lulu and nobody will pick it for her, probably safer to ban lulu out than risk their bot lane stomping.

My solution is a little simpler: Allow summoners to dodge champ selects in which a TEAMMATE has banned their intended pick. This would mean no LP losses or dodge timers.

I think it'll keep both parties happy, but obviously there's a risk of duo's abusing the system or other similar issues. Thoughts?

17 Comments

King of Demons10/24/2017, 9:07:19 PM2 votes

It#s not a bad thing. If my last pick hovers something very contested and I don't want the enemy to simply pick it before us, I will ban that champion and not feel bad about it. Tough luck.

As long as hovering is not a requirement or until it actually becomes meaningful it's nothing more than a minor inconvenience. Banning things from your team because you don't like them is dumb however.

Drugoth10/24/2017, 9:20:52 PM1 votes

Chances are if you're a late pick in the draft, and the champion you are hovering is popular/contested a lot, a teammate will ban your pick to deny the enemy.

My only advice is to broaden your champion pool or not actually hover your intent and hope that the enemy doesn't pick or ban it first. You could also ask first pick if they're willing to trade with you.

Dodging is not really a behavior that is endorsed by Riot as it adds to the time to get into the game. So I don't really see something like this being implemented, sorry.

Jo0o10/24/2017, 9:55:31 PM1 votes

The prevalent opinion of the community seems to be that the value of banning contested picks outweighs the value of preventing trolls. I don't personally agree with that assessment, but there it is.

I really do like the idea of a free dodge, though. If my heart is set on playing a certain champ and it's banned by the enemy or picked first or strongly countered, such is life. But if my own teammate decides that I can't play the champ I want to play, just for the lulz, ESPECIALLY in a non-ranked match, I'd appreciate a free dodge.

ShinkoMinori10/24/2017, 10:04:41 PM1 votes

The solution is simpler... just dont hover anything

Mizuki Zahra10/24/2017, 10:34:56 PM1 votes

I dodged because mid had zed hovered and enemies banned zed but I banned yas and he threw a fit said he would troll and feed because of my mother giving birth to me so ya I uninstalled this community has little to offer it's more of an internet zoo

General Esdeath 10/25/2017, 3:48:06 AM1 votes