Alternative Team Builder

Axes of Noxus·8/28/2015, 3:30:34 AM·1 votes·276 views

I don't like to leave my comfort roles which i don't get in blind pick, so I go to team builder on occasion. When i do though, I don't know who i want to play, but I know what role I want. For myself and any like me, I suggest a new form of team builder where a summoner is given a menu on the first startup where they put the champions they will play in categories of the roles they will play them in. This of course can be edited at any time. When your lists are done, you select the roles you want to play the most (no listing all five please although it's an option), so team captains, which you may elect yourself in the first menu of the gamemode, can scroll through a list of filterable options, and select the exact champion they want for a role.

Say you want to support, you would go to the box that says "edit roles" or something, and bring up a window where you select the "support" button and are brought to another menu with a list of champions and a box below it. so now you have all of these great supports but can't decide between Blitzcrank Blitzcrank, Braum Braum or Thresh Thresh. so you click on their icons on the list from any other gamemode, and they go into the lower box to show who you have selected. Now that those three are in, you hit a "save roster" button and are brought back to the original "edit roles" screen. But supporting isn't all that you want, you might want to jungle too. Now we go through the same process, select our champions for the jungle, save that and there we go. Now we close out of the "edit roles" menu and are back to the first screen of this mode. First, you must choose if you are a captain or a..........draft? Idk, but if you pick the draft option (which hopefully has a better name by then), you select the roles you will play and enter a queue. Same as finding a team in teeam bulder, you have to accept the invite, and ignoring it will put you out of queue. If you pick captain, then you select your role and champion., and go to a list of all drafts. This list s filtered by champion names and role names, or both via dropdowns. You click on a draft to once again, select the role and champion you want from them, then hit a "recruit" button.

The team itself I guess will be listed as in team builder, with the countdowns and all for people you've drafted. Launching a queue will work the same, with the ready up feature. This gamemode is for the Rift only.

I believe this feature is unnecessary, but also would be accepted by and quickly taken to by the community (if you can get your dream comp then why wouldn't they wanna play it). The only flaw i see is that maybe too many people would be captains, but this is unlikely since team builder runs fine with that. Let me know what you think in the added poll!

1 Comments

Minarde8/28/2015, 6:58:47 PM1 votes

That seems like it'd massively increase queue times in practice as teams filter for only meta champs.

Also, as a side note, "jungler," and possibly "support" as used above, is a position, not a role.