@Riot, did y'all say something about ranked team builder?

T RexHasTinyArms·May 26, 2015·1 votes·321 views

So I saw riot's reddit post regarding draft team builder http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/371561/now_that_toxic_players_are_gonna_be_banned_the/criydjz and the riot response says "draft team builder" but doesn't mention it as ranked. Am I missing something? A lot of the comments seemed to be treating it like riot intends to do ranked draft team builder, and I can't remember hearing about that ever.

Personally I think a big part of league is being able to work with people, be flexible, and adapt to the strengths and weaknesses of any team. I think ranked team builder would be cool, but that ranked team builder would only really work if it was a "rank" for whatever role you played in it. (Maybe let people have multiple ranks on the ranked team builder board by playing placements for each role they want to play in ranked team builder.) I guess the real question is, "does riot plan to do draft team builder, or ranked, and if it's ranked, how are they gonna do ladders (will it overlap or be clearly distinguished as not representing the same skill as current rank)?"

4 Comments

MinardeMay 26, 20151 votes

Check Lyte's older posts. He's mentioned ranked team builder a few times before already. My guess is that the "encouraging players to still master multiple positions" part is Riot's way of pacifying generalists after introducing that specialist queue.

T RexHasTinyArmsMay 26, 20151 votes

Well I guess my curiosity is how they would split them up, and if ranked team builder would be for each role or just overall. I'm definitely not a "generalist" since I have about 120 games on one champ this season, but I play the same champ mid and top, so I probably wouldn't play team builder (it's gonna have longer ques, and it still won't be the original ranked so it'll be not quite the same bragging rights imo) unless it offered something cool like getting to earn a ranking for each role instead of just whatever your best role is.

Not sure if you know if that's commented on, but it wasn't something I saw in older posts. Maybe I'm just not looking well enough.

ShosukoMay 26, 20151 votes

I think eventually they need to replace current blind pick and draft with teambuilder. The only problem with team builder is that far less people play it. I suspect this is primarily because it is not the mode for ranked. Whatever ranked does, the rest would follow.

I thought team builder might be cool if everyone picked a role and 5 champs, then have the ban pool include all of the champs the opposing team has selected instead of just every champ they own. This would focus the ban phase to be more relevant than simply banning whatever is considered op. After the ban phase people would pick from their remaining champion pool. If a single role was banned out they'd still have 2x options.

T RexHasTinyArmsMay 26, 20151 votes

with three on each side you could actually ban out a whole role, and this leaves less ability to counter pick, but I think overall that sounds really cool. Having a limited pool to choose from and getting to target ban to some degree is an awesome concept bc it's a little more like if you were playing against people who know the person they're up against, and I kinda like that idea. (although when they do ranked team builder I also hope they add the ability to que for multiple roles. A lot of champs can go either mid/top, or jg/top, or mid/support or something and so playing a few champs across different lanes, it would be nice to be able to que that way to find games faster.