For several days now, the new champion selection of League of Legends has been running more or less flawlessly on the EU-West servers.
While many of you are probably still diligently farming the bonus IP, which Riot Games distributed at the start of the new champion selection in an event, you may have noticed that the selection is still improvable in some areas. Many suggestions are surfacing in various threads on Reddit or in the LoL forum on how to improve the champion selection in League of Legends and which features are not well liked.
Riot Socrates has now addressed these points in the LoL forum and explained what changes will be made to the champion selection in the near future.
These changes are planned by Riot for the new champion selection of LoL
1. The champion selected in the pre-selection to show your team who you want to play will no longer be visible to the opponents when it is your turn in the champion selection. This feature has been deemed completely unnecessary by many players and will be removed soon.
2. A filter will be added, allowing players to sort champions by their roles. (Support, ADC, Mid, Top, Jungle) – This is currently partially possible if you type the respective role into the search field – but this function will probably become available as an extra button.
3. The champion grid, which is the window listing all champions, will soon be collapsible at all times. Currently, it is only visible during banning and when selecting your champion.
4. Reducing pre-selection, selection, and banning times in the champion selection. Especially the long time in the pre-selection has already led to many negative comments on Reddit and in the forums.
5. Purchasing a skin during the champion selection will be possible again. This was possible in the last champion selection and even in ARAM – hence it will be adjusted in the new champion selection.
These bug fixes are coming for the new champion selection in LoL
A few errors also need to be fixed.
- The correct display of the time spent in the queue.
- Fixing issues with entering/leaving a champion selection. (A time penalty was applied if you accepted an invitation to another champion selection during an ongoing champion selection.)
- The weekly free-to-play champions will (again) not be available in ranked games.
- The client will in the future come to the forefront during the AFK check, banning/selecting a champion.
- The freezing of the game when entering and leaving lobbies will be fixed.
This list is not final but only indicates what Riot Games has already planned for improvements.
What do you think of the new champion selection?
