Team builder Icons should "upgrade" as you play more games with a certain role. It could be something as simple as getting a silver, gold, etc. border to the icon. That way you know that if people have the support icon they've played support 5 times, but if they have the gold icon, they have 300+ (or some number) games as support.
Think this is a good idea?
Hyrum Graff2 votesI think it'd be really cool if I could show off being a support main.
XerxesSha2 votesDig this idea, with the release of the icons, I was more interested in using the team builder feature. Its not always good to only play ranked, and i think this feature is a cool way to give people a break and just enjoy the game, while collecting cool icons :] Games that have champs/ skins/ items/ achievements/ or icons to collect are usually played more often.
Angry Monster1 votesBad idea. Team builder is not about flexing your main. It is about saying you want X role and playing it. The current system lowers MMR if you are bringing a new champ out to a role. Why does it matter if you have 300 support games? You could be doing Sona for the first time.
Also this would be forcing players out of ranked in another que for achievement unlocking. The current icons are so low in play count it is not a big deal. But to give goals of 100+ is a huge distraction from leagues main Ques (ranked)
Baxter9001 votesPart of the reason why I used large numbers such as 100+ is because most people probably won't play that long if they weren't going to play in teambuilder anyway.
Team builder is not about flexing your main. It is about saying you want X role and playing it.
I agree with you on this, but to me this isn't such a big deal, adding the icon as an "achievement". It's like the honor ribbons, not something you go out of your way to get, just something you end up with.
You're entitled to your opinion though of course!
Angry Monster1 voteswhat about pulling people out of ranked for prolong periods of time though. Ranked is the man Q. hence the season rewards that are only unlocked through it.
Baxter9002 votesRiot has continually said the different queues are for different things, ranked is if you want to play competitively, draft is to practice for ranked in a similar environment with less pressure, blind is for pure having fun (people are much more relaxed about troll picks there ^^) and teambuilder is for playing exactly the role you want, when you want to.
There is no "main queue". Anyways, while people might get pulled out of ranked at the start, they probably won't stay out of it for more than 2 or 3 games.
Just to point this out, but a 100 games is still 33 hours if people always surrender at 20 minutes (which we both know rarely happens). Maybe some people will be willing to play that long just for an Icon, but I doubt many people will. Rather people who already are playing teambuilder will get it.
P.S. Whoevers downvoting him, knock it off, he's entitled to his views....
Angry Monster2 votesI agree to disagree about the main Q thing.
I do agree different Qs have different purposes though. Should team builder be an award mode though? The current icons awards i feel are more about trying to get people to try team builder so riot can remove blind. (my current tin foil hat theory http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=49008892#post49008892.) Check lytes red posts in the thread.
I am getting used to down votes. Most people do not like hearing dissenting opinions. thxs for being that rare person who thinks having a discussion is more valuable than blind agreeing.
Baxter9001 votesYea, I think the original purpose of them was to get people to play it again, before it was unplayable due to the long waiting time but if they hadn't offered the icons, I doubt most people would have tried it.
Your conspiracy theory might be right, doesn't seem to far fetched to me. ^^ Though personally I think it would be fine if they got rid of blind queue.
I don't think I made this clear before but if the icons being upgraded could be increased using any queue, I think that would be much better than just teambuilder games counting. Unfortunately, since you don't declare which role your going to be in when you start the game, that wouldn't work.
The fact that I don't feel ranked is the main queue might have something to do with the fact that 4/5 of my games are in blind or teambuilder while only 1/5 are it ranked. ^^'
Elemon1 votesI think this is a cool idea, but I'm way too completionist, so I'd end up grinding for a few months to get them all...