Coaching mode : Allow player to spectate in real time if they spectate ONE team from the start.

Korkalek·1/13/2015, 12:12:27 PM·8 votes·3,629 views

How to do that simply

On any mode, just allow more than 5 players by team. But the suplementary player(s) have no champion or summoner spell. They are just here to spectate on one team side. No cheating problem, since the "spectating" players are technically part of the game, with the same restriction as "playing" players. They cannot leave or play another game until this one is finished, and they share vision with only one team.

** Why it would be interresting. **

  • Have a strategist in the game that only focus on global strat.
  • Gives a way for good player to coach their newbies friends without having to smurf and ruin the game for others

A few tweak can be made :

  • Only for premade : you cannot join a random game as coach.
  • Could be only possible in team builder mode (It's probably easier to implement, since it already assign specific role to players before the game start.)
  • Coach MMR could be ignored during matchmaking. This would allow Good players to coach their friends without unbalancing the matchmaking.
  • Coach does not win IP

If you like this idea, bump the thread (the longer it stay on top, the more chances a red can notice it.)

7 Comments

FDru1/13/2015, 12:33:21 PM4 votes

Pretty sure you don't understand the "cheating problem". And this does nothing to address it.

Bronze Prophet1/15/2015, 11:51:52 AM1 votes

Another concept from Dota 2. How coaching will work is if you only see what the player you are coaching sees. You are locked in on his screen. The point of it is to help him last hit, help him buy items, teach him how to play a certain champion, etc... If he isn't looking top lane then you don't see top lane. Trying anything different from this is dumb and shouldn't ever be a thing.