Zileas posted to the official forums today, stating that when Season One begins, the 5v5 Solo version of the ranked matches may not get the ban option present in the other two ranks. The reason? He doesn’t want people to argue.
I’ll spare you the nauseating rundown of the entire thread and just say this – I hope to god he changes his mind. As I posted in the thread, there are plenty of things for people to argue about. There are plenty of things people do argue about. I would still rather have the option to ban than not.
It seems so basic in my mind. Give the ban option to either the player with the highest ELO, or make it totally random, but we need an option for removing the things Riot breaks from the game. That sounds snarky, but the recent Ezreal “accident” made me realize again the importance of bans. Mystic was horribly broken, to the point I thought they should remove Ezreal from the game. Remember what Jax was like before the string of nerfs? Whoever had first pick could be virtually guaranteed a win.
I really hope they reconsider this. It would make the 5v5 Solo queue much less enjoyable and much less competitive.
