Banning Hovered Champions -- This Needs to be Removed

Witcher Letho·Aug 22, 2017·5 votes·876 views

You all already know what I'm talking about. You hover your champion, someone doesn't trust you to play with them on your team, they ban them, and you instantly know at least one of your teammates is a prick. It's different if you don't hover it, and if the other team bans it it's totally fair. But if I'm in normals just trying to have fun, banning my champion is just a dick move, and there's no reason to let kids keep doing this.

Please, Riot. What's the logic behind letting people ban champs if hovered? I know it shows if you're hovering on their screen, lots of people just don't care because they won't get punished.

21 Comments

Imperial PandaaAug 22, 20174 votes

Because there are some champs that become pick or ban during a meta, and if the chances of the enemy team picking the champ first is there, then sometimes it is better to ban it.

X: "Why did you ban Zac? He op." Y: "Because he is op and we don't have first pick."

Witcher LethoAug 22, 20171 votes

This makes perfect sense, but if they're not asking immediately to get the first pick with an "OP" champ, then that's their own fault. The situation I'm describing is banning a Vi top lane in normals just to be an absolute prick.

Beas7ieAug 22, 20172 votes

Most of the time they are pricks, but sometimes they have have legitimate reasons. They may have played a matched or two and had that champ on their team feed and feed. This goes quadruple if it's an "OP" champ like Yasuo and they're thinking, "Great another feeder Yas".

Most of the time though, they're just being assholes. There are several ways to deal with this. You can fight fire with fire and not rush your ban. They wanna play that way, just ban their champ.

I'll admit though, this may not create the most positive environment.

Or just pick another champ, maybe make a comment like "I'm not nearly as good with this champ I hope I don't feed"

Do NOT actually int though as that's a dick move.

Or make a crazy pick for your role. A teammate banned my hovered champ once and I was like "Fine, I'm going Garen mid. Spin to win!"

I actually did really well that game. I struggled during laning phase as I was against Lux(little sisters can be crazy annoying) but caught up later and we ended up winning. And then the person who banned my first champ was like "That actually worked out pretty well, maybe I should always ban a teammates champ"

And then we all did that group laugh like at the end of a most kids cartoons. Ahahahahahaha! Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Witcher LethoAug 22, 20171 votes

One positive experience out of many negative ones, that is my point.

Them banning your champion was a dick move, there was no reason to do it, and you might have snowballed in lane if they hadn't. Likewise, if you go Garen mid or pick an otherwise weird pick just in response, it's not going to work a large part of the time.

SecondAirbaneAug 22, 20172 votes

im not playing with a new champ on my team

they can suck my left nut if they wanna play ornn in the next 2 weeks

Liquid Poro Aug 22, 20171 votes

No it will come this week.

Witcher LethoAug 22, 20172 votes

THIS is an exception. I agree 100%, at least in ranked. Had plenty of Day 1 Kayn players go 0-7 and say "man this champ sucks". Ban that shit to high heaven and don't reply if the player even so much as talks to you.

Liquid Poro Aug 25, 20171 votes

Ok.

UnboundHadesAug 22, 20171 votes

I'll give u you some time to think about this

BlackFluxAug 22, 20171 votes

If you ask me, a smarter thing to do would ask if "is it ok for (banner) to ban your currently selected champion?" with a small popup similar to trades. so if you don't want them to ban it they can't ban it,but if you want to select something else you can say yes then it locks in the ban.

d4rkshockAug 22, 20171 votes

If they do that, then go blue shen or disco nunu it down mid. They need to remove the option to not ban a champion.

Witcher LethoAug 22, 20171 votes

Not gonna get banned because Riot refuses to take action on anything other than mean words that people say.

GreatWhiteNorthAug 22, 20171 votes

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If they do that, then go blue shen or disco nunu it down mid. They need to remove the option to not ban a champion.

As a mid main I hope you get a permaban.

d4rkshockAug 24, 20171 votes

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As a mid main I hope you get a permaban.

I was mostly joking😉

DrugothAug 22, 20171 votes

I suppose you could just not hover a champion to combat this?

Witcher LethoAug 22, 20171 votes

Then you still risk getting your champ banned.

Yes, Riven and Yasuo mains are scum of the Earth. Are they gonna go away? Of course not. Just let them play their annoying ass champion and POSSIBLY do well rather than complain and whinge the entire 20 minutes while they feed with nunu top.

GreatWhiteNorthAug 22, 20171 votes

I disagree. There have been so many times when someone doesn't realize they've been autofilled and is hovering the wrong champion because of it. I still don't ban that, but I respect people who do.

Q RenAug 22, 20171 votes

Sorry but I'm sick of Yasuos and Rivens that don't actually know shit about their champion and feed with them most of the games.

I don't care if they do it in normals, fuck it they can even go full ad Janna top I couldn't care less but I'm not wasting my time and LP just to see a Yasuo be 0-10 and complain for 20 minutes about how our jungler sucks for not winning his lane.

The Pale KingAug 24, 20171 votes

I main Karthus, I have over half a million mastery with Karthus and have a 60% win rate over 300+ games with him in ranked this season. Yet when I hover him people can just ban my champion because they think hes bad. I wish Riot would fix this shit. I've been playing this game since before these ban happy pricks balls dropped and they can tell me what i can and can't play in champion select, especially in NORMALS. Like why is this a thing in norms, ranked I understand. But why can they ban my hovered champion in norms. I now hover mundo mid every game and will lock in mundo mid and build all blue items if they look up my account and ban my champion.