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New champ select Q&A November 12

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If you’re looking to lock in more info on new champ select, head over to the designer Q&A at 11 AM PST on November 12! Some of the Rioters behind the new system will be on hand to answer your questions and share the details behind the design.

Explore the 2016 season update site for more about the new champ select.

138 Comments

The Truman Show30 votes

I only hope this does not mean we will have a full screen client. I have come to appreciate the minimal windowed client. Better for multitasking. :)

Róanin4 votes

So True

RiotRiot NaKyle34 votes

Same client, new champ select!

Void22585 votes

I think there was a conflation of the new select with the new client that is coming later, but the same concern is valid. Please keep the new client as windowed, not full screen.

Shroom Junkie4 votes

Or if they do, at least make an option to make it windowed. And not crappy windowed like most games.

Void22583 votes

The problem most games have is that if you window the lobby, you window the game. No separate settings. This makes it impossible to leave them open in the background.

TariithePanda2 votes

or let you choose between the two

Dreago2 votes

Riot NaKyle - this change is ruining ranked play. people pick out of order then the entire team just has a fit. is the idea to tank this game? If so this is doing an excelent job.

ManiacalCoyote1 votes

I wish there was a way to have the client full-screen if we want it to.

ThyUnison2 votes

I like multitasking ^-^ #dohwWhilstwaitingforleague

HaXource3 votes

Alt + Tab

TOMXBAKER22 votes

So, everyone gets their lane. Last pick gets a ban. 4th and 5th get their chosen position (well, 1 of 2). Everyone gets what they want...

Rito...... Can.Graves . Please get a cigar????

Eiddew4 votes

At least remove ALL tobacco if you're taking away his cigar. Gragas and Cho'gath both have some in their fancy skins.

TheJinxedOne2 votes

he should get it with this nerf that is coming soon.. he's gonna need a smoke break after losing all his OP status

LongDongHongKong13 votes

Have you thought about adding a** vote disaband **to the champion select?

Problem: I get punished if I dodge the queue because of some obvious troll. (Like premade troll bot lane, or any champion with useless build, like AP Darius and such)

Solution: Vote disaband team in champion select. If 3 players vote to disaband the team, we could get back in queue without any punishment. So we avoid the queue ban or wasting at least 20 minutes with trolls and losing LP in ranked. (3 players so premades can't deny the vote.)

(I mainly want this for ranked, I don't really mind trolls in normals)

Dead Tulip3 votes

hmm, this 'solution' could be misused for dodging champ selection cause of counter picking. so i dont this this is a viable problem solver.

pomber944 votes

also, bear in mind that starting next season you will be able to queue up with more than just 1 friend on the ranked ladder

LongDongHongKong1 votes

Well they could add a quota to it. Something like you can start a vote daily 3 times or so. Also you would still need 2 other players to agree with you.

Matthevv2 votes

Alright, so you can cheat the queue 3 times daily if you get outpicked/banned. A change like this would make matchmaking a nightmare as you constantly have to sit through queues only to have the disband because somebody got counter picked. You may have used up your disbands for the day but your opponents haven't.

No, a system like that would be rife with abuse and therefore a bad idea.

Why Ban My Main7 votes

Is there a set date for the release?

Oblivious Denial6 votes

Yay! Can't wait for this to be added.

Aqua47485 votes

How are you dealing with the concept of trolling in this new champ select like:

Your main is Master MasterYi and you put that as your "wannabe" champ, but then one of your banners bans him and your stuck with playing someone else and feeding

You put your role you want to play as Mid and you get it, but some jerk who also wanted mid got support, so he trolls and feeds and bans your "wannabe" champ

Your Top picks bardBard

Riot whats your plan on how to take care of these trolls

Cressilia5 votes

If they got support they would have picked it as their secondary so I don't think it would cause them to troll though there still will be THOSE people >.>

DFinn4 votes

When does this new champ. select go live?

sigh on top3 votes
crazyclay93 votes

I just want to know when the new season will be out can't wait summoner 6 summoner 4

Kendröne3 votes

When is this going to be up? next Patch???

Zilean Only Time Will TellZilean

Flyer Beast3 votes

U left Ekko out. He can tell you right now.

DiamondBomb2 votes

Too much freedom I think the pre-champ pick should only be done in ranked to begin with.

premade 4's and 3's were group trolling could happen, tribunal should prioritize reports for these in ranked while the bad seeds/trolls/intentional miss behavior are eliminated from the people trying to improve.

premade 4's and 3's could be troll misguiding still provide negative experience for solo queue's in ranked draft. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Specially if the game isn't ranked. And the result would not matter to 50% of the community. The other 50% would be mad and rate it a bad move.

Love the way league is heading though. I hope everyone takes my comment positively and Kudos to league of legends for the awesome game .

SteelTitan972 votes

I'm just wondering how you guys will prevent people from trolling with the whole, you ban champions after picking them thing. Because lets be real here for a moment. There will be people that ban champions other players want to use just because they are a troll. I want to know how that's going to be dealt with.

jdizzle3672 votes

Yeah I understand the intent behind the system is to prevent this exact issue but in reality it just opens up an easy target for trolls to hit. Especially now that this system makes trolling much more difficult. In the pbe I've just been "intenting" champs I want banned.

Fondled Trump2 votes

This looks like you're still pushing team builder on us.

devante gomez3 votes

say what u want, its better than the current draft. U LITERALLY GET TO PLAY WAHT EVER U WANT ALL THE TIME.

LittleSunny2 votes

Wait is this going to be added into ranked ques as well? or in the future will you add some kind of new draft mode to ranked?

tsunami boy4 votes

This will be added in ranked

NAJPANKAEW2 votes

summoner 30 summoner 30

Mute Button X 42 votes

The Support icon lights up multiple lanes - signifying that Riot supports the idea of Supports going places other than bot lane. Looks like i may become a full-time Support in the near future.

Lírio2 votes

Do we know when this will be released?

GamingSquire2 votes

when will this come out?

001001012 votes

Anybody know when this becomes live for norms?

MmaSpawn2 votes

when will the champ select be released?

Lord Luciferr2 votes

I chose varus, but then enemy team took him, even tho i selected him first. This is BS, after that i got kicked from queue for not locking in. I selected MF, but didnt lock and I got removed from Queue. This new select is bs

Exiled Moon1 votes

So this means the quality of games should increase then? Also wouldn't this system make it more difficult to rank up unless you some god in that role?

jdizzle3672 votes

I think it will make it a lot easier to rank up everybody has one or 2 roles they just aren't comfortable with this means that in ranked you will never be forced into that role as last pick

Miyabi Serizawa1 votes

uh i was wondering how i can select my chroma skin... i dont see an option for it Vayne item 3070

Kaiser07061 votes

I feel it way too complicated for a champ select, specially for normal matches. Also the primary and secondary dont have like a reason, you want to play a lane, chose it. If you have to wait, doesnt matter or cancel it. Also why you have to confirm your champ, unless it´s banned, you should stay with the one you chose in the first place

I personally prefer the old team builder system, easy to access, to setup, etc.

Also to many animations , they look awsome , but kinda unnecessary.

Anjinsama1 votes

In the old champ select for draft you could choose your ward skin and it seems to have been removed from the new select. Is this an oversight? or was it phased out for a reason?

Percivalll1 votes

im wondering whats up with the new champ select...i font have it in my client...help?

Happy Day 2 U1 votes

is there any chance that you can fix the bug that wont let people pick a daily play champion ? please see bug reporting comments. Thank you

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