Suggestion: Emergency Dodge Vote during Champion Select

GeroldTheGlutton··9 votes·554 views

After leveling up this new account I had to play Blind Pick pretty often and it honestly isn't that great. Sure, que times are lower but you often run into trolls who don't respect call order which makes you end up with things like triple midlane or people who just straight up go AFK at the beginning of the game.

And even in Draft Pick you can experience this kind of stuff, albeit much rarer. You still get some people who got autofilled which causes them to troll from time to time.

The problem is that if you dodge, you get the que time penalty. You can't just remove it either though, because it would make it pretty much impossible to go into a game because people would constantly leave games before they even start.

So for something like that an Emergency Dodge Vote or whatever you want to call it would help a lot. You would type "/dodge vote" into the chat and a vote would pop up, similar to the surrender vote. If the majority votes yes, everyone instantly gets placed back into que without any penalties.

The only downside that I can see is that it might cause toxicity. When people start a surrender vote it can be pretty tilting for the rest of the team and with a dodge vote a similar situation could occur. I still think that the advantages heavily outweigh the disadvantages though so there is pretty much no reason NOT to implement it.

Let me know what you think. Especially if you happen to be a passerby from Rito Gams.

9 Comments

BananaSlayerAMO2 votes

Another possible downside is that three or four man parties can abuse this to get as many retries of champ select as they want.

GeroldTheGlutton1 votes

Didn't think about that, good point.

Arakadia2 votes

You could limit this free dodge to once a day or week to prevent abuse.

zaphod4241 votes

never gonna happen, another reason why it won't work, is if you realise that you've been countered hard, you will just dodge, no penalties, so why not, better to dodge than play a game where you're team is at a disadvantage

franchise76761 votes

I thought he meant for blind pick only. also it can be just for the solo/duo que

MysterQ1 votes

That is why there needs to be limits, like once a day or something, or once a day during promos. Recognizing flaws is important to improve ideas, but just pointing out flaws to destroy someone's thoughts is not helpful.

zaphod4241 votes

The fact is, it won't work, you cant say once a day, because there is a team of 5, And at least 1 would not have done this in that day. If this was a thing it would just be used to dodge games with unfavourable matchups

I stand by what I said, never gonna happen

MysterQ1 votes

Once a day per account. If you honestly have a 5-man premade and want to dodge 5 times I see no problem with that. Knowing when not to fight is also a skill and as long as it is within reason there is no problem with dodging a bad or annoying matchup.

If you are worried about queue times for higher level players, if someone dodges keep the lobby up and have a queuing player filled in. There may be complications with this (there are), but the point is most problems can at least be discussed. Instead of close-mindedly just saying nope change is bad.

zaphod4241 votes

im not saying nope change is bad. I'm saying it a) won't work, and b) won't happen

knowing when not to fight is a skill in game or in the world, but you can't just dodge out of a league game, putting the other team back into queue, just because they drafted well.

I stay by what i said, never gonna happen

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