Fairly straightforward question. I'm pretty sure that the matchmaking is better balanced in teambuilder but mother of god the wait times. Is it just worth getting called a piece of shit in blinds?
Draft Pick Normals. It removes all of the crap of picking blind and having to call positions immediately and then getting that one guy who wants to instalock Shaco mid.
I do neither; TB has a lot of people trying out ridiculous strategies that aren't used for a reason (or they don't know how to do it), and Blind Pick is often a race to see who can call and lock in first (not always in that order).
I suggest plain ol' Normal Draft. While you are subjected to pick order unlike in TB, the wait time is significantly better and usually less troll picks (benefit of TB is lowering your MMR for using a new champ/role though). Blind Pick has no benefit...
Nope either way you are picking stupid champions into blind enemies half the time just to find out they are playing bullshit champs like azir or fizz,or in the best case a hard counter which is like 90% of the time for champions i enjoy,you're team will feed just as hard just as much,and getting kicked/leaving that game is faster then dealing with a dodge and leads to the only real difference....which is you will know what champion your team will pick and nobody will cry if they don't get their lane...though to be honest the best game mode is draft so you dont ruin your own game by picking a champion into 3 counters
Solo queue is the game mode for people who like to play cancer champs like Kalista or Vayne and don't want to risk their desired champ being banned.
Team builder is a longer wait but safer to get a reliable team composition. You can leave a queue when you see a Twisted Fate ADC with a Cho'gath support and a Kassadin jungle and not get penalized for it with a wait time. There's actually a very short wait for anyone who wants the support role which 90% is what I end up wanting. One of the downsides is that you often end up with a rag tag group of people while the other team is consistently a group of IRL friends using teamspeak who have an advantage over you.
Draft is nicer. There is more time to communicate, you can plan to remove cancerous champs from a game and you can actually pick in order to counter an enemy's pick. There's more strategy than sheer luck involved when picking your champs.
Imo, Blinds are better practice for soloqueue than team builder because it helps you be prepared for the mess that is role selection in a ranked game.
Once they put team builder solo queue into the game, then team builder may be a better option, but blind pick and unranked draft are better practice until then.
I hate blind because I always run into trolls there and the games always seem unfair, one team has a big advantage over the other. Draft pick and teambuilder are the best for practice imo. You can just find a support or jungle i guess to duo with in teambuilder so you don't have to wait so long though.
