Before you going to comment on, I hope you would take a bit of time to read my idea.
I’m pretty sure this idea was brought up way more than once in the past for many different reasons but at the current state of the game, It feels like it’s required by some form.
After Season 10, The game moved away from the dive meta towards a meta that is based heavily around on CC and the whole change indeed caused a lot of mixed opinions and I’m by myself quite lost the desire to play the game as much as I used to on Season 8 and earlier.
While playing the game recently, I just remembered that Blizzard made a separate ranking system for different game modes such as CTF. Then why not to introduce the competitive mode but with banning phase (Only 4 bans, 2 for each team) and make a separate MMR for that if Blizzard doesn’t want to hurt the existing player base. (See it like the separation of Ranked Solo/Duo and Ranked Flex on LoL).
And at the same time it may help with the whole “One-Tricking” issue, It wouldn’t solve it entirely but it would “force” the OTP player to learn a new hero in case he/she’s favorite hero is getting banned.
Just to clarify, I’m totally aware that Custom Games does exist that would allow me to do the same thing but It won’t be balanced in terms of skill level and would result in a poor match quality and experience.
i would welcome this… i would ban snipers and flankers, whichever the enemy prefered to use
The point is that you shouldn’t know what he is going to pick.
During the Banning Phase, The game would hide the nicknames of the enemy team members to avoid any option of abuse and the bans would be revealed at the end of the phase.
Think about it for a second, If League did show me the nicknames of my enemies, I would just look quickly at their opgg and ban their main.
But honestly, The perfect bans for me would be Brigitte,Symmetra,Hanzo and Doomfist. But it depends on the person.
Regardless I would bad genji and hanzo every single match because they are infuriating to play against
draft would break the point of being able to switch hero’s, this is not dota or LoL
however, i do think that there are enough heros now for a ban on either team.
the only thing would be i think that the bans would not be able to be in the same category. witch could make for some interesting tactics
a double ban in ofence wouldnt be so bad now…but one on say main heal or main tanks would make for bad games so i think that would need to be adressed.
with bans tho we could have avoided the hanzo feasco in finals…
From multiple previous discussions about this topic I’m just going to put it shortly: With such a small hero pool to choose from it doesn’t work at all. When Overwatch hits about 40 heroes this becomes an idea worth considering.
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So I can have finally ONE SINGLE game without a Pharah and play what I want? I’m in!
If you’re going to introduce a ban system, you may as well remove Brig and Mercy.
Not that I’d have a problem with that.
Lets just only ban Mei/Bastion, the game would be great