Hey all, we just rolled out the adjustments to champ select timers stated in the patch notes.
PICK INTENT 35 seconds ⇒ 20 seconds BANS 40 seconds ⇒ 30 seconds (x6) PICKS 40 seconds ⇒ 30 seconds (x10) RESOLUTION 40 seconds ⇒ 30 seconds MAX DURATION 715 seconds ⇒ 530 seconds
Let us know what you think.
A very important thing to set up is to make the game window pop up when it is your turn to ban/pick a champ. It is not clear enough right now, there is only a small ticking sound in the last 10 sec, so there are a lot of unintentional dodges.
Although I think these changes are a good thing, it may increase the number of unintentional dodges.
Edit: Nvm, I didn't see it has been implemented recently.
eh.... max still just shy of under 10 mins..... per dodge
i miss teambuilder
Pick intent feels about 5 seconds too fast, due to the fact that you can load into champ select with the timer ticking, so it felt closer to 10 seconds than 15.
Do we still have to lock in our pick intent,bans and picks?
My League client has always been sort of laggy when in champion selection so it's not always easy to have time to choose the champion and then click lock in. Having less time to choose and lock these in kinda suck :S.
Also why was the mandatory lock in implemented? It seems pointless to me to be forced to hit lock in. If this question was answered else where, can you please link me to the discussion? :).
Other than my laggy computer, if one were to have a speedy client..i think this update is rather lovely. Less time in champion selection means more time on the rift! Good Job riot!
[slayer-jinx-catface] Thanks in advance for taking the time to read all this <3.
I think thank god.
Please keep the resolution at 40 seconds. Even before these changes I tend to not be able to finish making a mastery page.
Pick intent is in a good spot, could even lower it to 15 seconds if you wanted. Bans are good as well, don't lower it below 20 seconds if your looking for more seconds to shave. Picks are the same. Resolution should really only be 20-15 seconds, drags on a little.
Good spot all around [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]
Could you make the aram champ select phase shorter? Right now it's pretty long for a game type that requires little pre-game strategizing.
Just a thought. Thanks.
This makes really happy. I know it wasn't longer, but the new selection felt brutally slow.
Anything that gets me to playing faster is a good change.
Can the champion panel pop up faster now that the timers are shorter? The "pick intent" timer is 20 seconds, but I can't see any champion faces until it's 14sec left.
i dodged 2 games today due to the fact i was doing two things at once. One of the times i spilled water on my self and i came screaming back trying to pick a champ at the last 5 seconds with it booting me out D;
Is there an actual point to pick intent though?
Fantastic. Thank you. This new champ select is amazing. <3
I still see three issues with it, however.
First, is that we can't see the countdown timer while changing our masteries. I think I remember a Rioter saying this is being looked at, but I'm not 100% certain. Regardless, this is an even bigger issue now that the Resolution time has been shortened.
Second, I wish the text at the top would switch sizes and placement when it is your turn to pick. When every other person picks, it says "[Summoner] is picking" in large print with their position in smaller print below. But when it's your turn, the position in big print, with "Pick your champion" in small print. Seems backwards, no?
The old champ select's "It is YOUR turn to PICK." made this much more clear, especially with the YOUR and PICK in the bright orange color.
The third issue is much smaller in comparison. I wish you would put a period at the end of "Pick your champion". That's all. Old champ select had proper punctuation, but this one doesn't.
Praise the Riot Gods! The champ select felt like it was taking forever! This new timing system feels much better and I feel that things move along at a much quicker pace and I for one am happy about it.
Add more clear SFX to the "it's your turn now" part. I can't tell you the number of times I've had LoL minimized and not realized it was my turn until the 10 second counter started and I was like "OH SHIT" and panic picked something.
THANK YOU! Holy crap timers were long
Fix rune pages bug. Let us view champion pool.
Let us know when you fix.
PICK INTENT 35 seconds ⇒ 20 seconds You only get 12-14 seconds as it takes too long for the screen to load.
PICKS 40 seconds ⇒ 30 seconds (x10) RESOLUTION 40 seconds ⇒ 30 seconds
These need to be longer. Trying to discuss with teammates what lane we need to swap to (if at all) and counter picks we want doesn't have enough time.
Didn't have queue dodges before, but now have 4 in the last 2 days. Your adjustment sucks as people aren't able to communicate fast enough.
Ty Riot
good job, can you fix the bugs like getting kicked when you have 20 seconds left on your ban/pick?
LOVE it. reduce it even more. get these games started faster plz
Liked better the previous way. Now it seems too short.
Everything seems to flow fairly smoothly and consistently, except for Pick Intent. It feels a bit too short now, almost like it's being rushed through just to get to the bans.
In my eyes, the Pick Intent phase is the time to get to know your teammates before getting into the actual Champion Select. Who's playing which champion? How is our team setup? Is anyone swapping between multiple pick intents?
I would say raising Pick Intent up to 30 seconds would be sufficient time for everyone to get comfortable with their teammates, figure out who they're using, and begin focusing on the game.
An alternate suggestion might be to allow Pick Intent during the entire Champion Select up until a player locks-in their choice. It would allow players the ability to show more options as the selection proceeds, though I do see a potential where people could abuse it by just swapping randomly through their champion list. Though the same could be said about the current Pick Intent as people select a champion only to lock-in with a completely different choice instead.
I personally am still wondering why I need to wait 10 minutes (sometimes longer) for a game pre-30. But other than that I am glad the picks and bans will be faster.
But is there an ETA for when new champ select will roll out in all queues?
Pick intent felt a little short. If I was indecisive about what would work best with my teammate's picks, I felt like I had to rush and just grab whatever I saw first instead of making a thoughtful decision.
Oh, who am I kidding? We all know I'm gonna go Leona.
Please switch them back, I find it very rushed considering if you don't lock in, you get kicked and I find it harder to think properly with the rush.
Awesome change! Please make it so that you don't have to ban anything - it's totally unnecessary to dodge a lobby just because someone didn't ban.
I'm more concerned with how long it's taking to get a match this season... was queing with my friend prime time last night for normal draft. We waited 12 min. I queued as top>jun and him as supp>adc, that's a lot of coverage. And we're plat so it's not like we're super high or anything. Last year we pretty much never waited longer than 2 min for draft normals at 8pm... that extra 10 min makes a big difference and is in my opinion not worth.
Could we keep actually increase the resolution timer? Sometimes I want to think about which masteries/rune page I want to use for the current match up or make a new mastery page and the small buffer time at the end is the best place to do that.
an extra 10-20 second would be good
I think moving the countdown from 10 to 15 would be helpful
