Champ intent being banned by an "ally"

Votable Jester·May 24, 2017·3 votes·308 views

While it's far from common for me, it is extremely frustrating when a teammate clearly bans the champion I intend to play. Just now someone banned GP when I was hoping to practice him (in a normal game btw), causing me to dodge because I didn't want to waste an extra half hour. I'm not sure what should be done about it (open them up to punishment, put up a warning, idk.), but I do wish there was something. It's just beyond tilting to be opposed by your own allies before you even start the game.

Honestly I'd be happy with just being able to properly report the guy after dodging because it's not worth it to play through that game just to report him. Again, I don't know what should be done; this is honestly more of a rant than anything because the guy just pissed me off with that ban (and I don't get pissed off often).

4 Comments

ModThe DjinnMay 24, 20171 votes

Sadly, this is a situation where you can't really have a good solution. On the one hand you can troll someone by banning the champion they hovered and intent to play. On the other hand, a player can troll by hovering over a valuable ban, thus letting the enemy team snag it as a first pick since their ally isn't allowed to ban it.

The first is frustrating, but has a better way around it -- simply don't hover a champion. For this reason (since the other case doesn't have a good solution and can be far more frustrating if a particular champion is significantly overtuned at the moment and needs to be banned) I don't believe Riot will come out and say this isn't permissible, even though it is frustrating when it happens. :/

Votable JesterMay 24, 20171 votes

Yeah that's why I don't want it to completely prevent a ban. I really don't know what could be done about this.

I generally do hover a champion so they don't ban my champion on accident. I am generally an optimist actually.

As I said, I was just pretty angry and wanted to vent a bit. I don't really expect any big change to come from this.