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Two suggestions on how to improve champion select

Dawid·1/14/2017, 11:53:30 PM·2 votes·441 views

Hi, I have come up with 2 very useful features that would definitely make champion select better:

  1. When you want to swap champions with your team mate (eg. you ask him to pick something for you and then you pick something for him), he should be able to see what champion do you have. It would help a lot because you have only 30 secs to tell other person what champ you want to play and there is a big change that this person doesn't have a desired champion and he ends up with picking a random one because of lack of time.

  2. After everyone enters champ select, there is a 15 seconds window to choose and show to your team mates what champion you are going to play. However it would be even better if the champion we chose, couldn't be banned by our team mates. I know it may sound ridiculous but sometimes people do not check what others want to play and accidentaly ban their champions. It results in 2 people from the team to flame each other and many times I had a situation where someone, who's champion has been banned by an ally, started trolling and feeding enemies to deal with frustration. Also once when I assigned a champion that I was going to play, my team mate banned him intentionally because he didn't like him...

I would be really glad if you considered implementing those features.

4 Comments

Aunt Carol Ganks1/15/2017, 12:22:45 AM2 votes

It would be nice if there was an indicator to let people know that you also have a champion in your inventory, whether by putting a mark next to said champ or something less invasive. Maybe at the bottom of the champ's portrait for who owns them. For instance, you could highlight say Ahri and her portrait becomes larger with 5 crystals at the bottom, corresponding to the positions of each person in the queue....or for the easier reading, simply highlight said champ and a smaller window opens indicating Ahri is owned by "A" "B" "C "D" and it's a list of names for who else is in the queue.

PERSONALLY, I would love for them to bring back highlighting champions and their abilities pop up. As it is right now, and coming back from a year or so break as I have, it's a bit of a shock when champs DON'T have the abilities I quite remember them having.

As for the second option you mentioned, I'd rather put the banning to a vote. Yes, you would like to play, say Katarina but honestly, I'd rather see her banned so my enemy doesn't get her. Outside of knowing/playing with someone in game, there's no telling if that random player who goes, "Don't ban her guys! I can do it!" can actually perform well or if the person on the enemy team can do it BETTER.

If it's a vote of "Yea" or "Nay" then this makes it so the majority can vote on it, rather than giving someone the power to say, "This is mine. You can't do anything about it."

Because in my mind, we'll run into a reverse of the current situation, in which one person can be Mr/Mrs Pick and Choosey, and will lead to more arguments.

1wolfpack1/15/2017, 12:16:29 AM1 votes

in regards to your 2nd proposal: it would make more sense if the selected champions picture was highlighted or different in some way so that your ally doesnt select them by accident or if they do, they notice that the profile picture is different then the rest and cause them to pause maybe a second and realize what their doing. this wont stop trolls, but will help reduce the number of accidental bans on ally selected champions.