In a professional League of Legends, the ban also has great meanings, even can decide the success or failure of the game. Through the ban, the teams can know what the opponent intends to apply and the audience can also make some separate judgments for themselves, for example which team will dominate or how long will the game last. Therefore, in each match, the teams must have truly careful choices. Not only hiding tactical intentions but also forcing the opponent to reveal his “troops”.
Prohibition is an extremely important factor in the professional League of Legends
However, in the upcoming Summer LPL 2024, the tournament will apply a ban on “Fearless Mode”. For those who do not know, this is a fairly similar form of Mobile Union, often applied to couples from BO3 or higher. In this form, the player will not be able to choose the generals that have appeared in the previous game. This is thought to increase dramatic in professional matches, and forced the players to expand the tank. Not to mention, the names that have been almost disappeared completely like Garen, Volibear or Fiddlestick … will have the opportunity to reappear.
LPL will apply the banchess mode formula from the summer of 2024
However, this may cause difficulties for teams and Riot is the main cause. Everyone knows, League of Legends has never been a balanced game and always has generals, through the updates, will be stronger than the rest. For example, at the present time, K'Sante is a general too “hegemony” in the top lane and almost no way to overcome. In a game, with 10 banned turns and 10 turns to divide equally for each side, the number of generals “flying color” after the first game is very large.
After game 1, the number of generals “flying color” in the next game is very large
For the players, having to practice spread is not necessarily good. Not to mention, there will be generals that are not really too suitable for a position, although they were previously defaulted to that position. For example, at the present time, generals like Ashe have almost disappeared from the position of the gunner that will often be played in the form of better gunner. This not only helps reduce the pressure on Ashe, but also helps this champion promote strength. Meanwhile, as a pure gunner, she is too weak compared to Lucian, Zeri, Kai'sa or even Jhin, Kog'Maw.
Generals like Ashe Do Riot have no longer suitable for the gunner position that is applied to her
Not to mention, some teams often have consistent tactics for special players, such as the case of ChoVy with Gen.G or Faker at T1 as an example. Faker himself, it will be a problem that is difficult to say if he is forced to use the “Team” generals because the fact that Faker of 2024 is no longer like Faker of the years 2015 – 2016. Typically, at the last Spring LCK 2024, Faker's generals were only around the “make play” generals. Only Corki can play a key role but Corki itself is a passive gunner, depending on the level, equipment and player skills.
Players like Faker will be difficult if this form is widely applied to LCK
In LCK, the teams are also very focused on tactical elements and meta. Therefore, LCK is the area that rarely has the ban on mutations, but it is also the maximum maximum of Meta in League of Legends. Therefore, if Fearless Mode is applied via the Kimchi League of Legends, maybe only T1 will benefit.
The new formula can only be applied in LPL
The fact that Riot continues to have extremely unbalanced generals, and the teams also hard to force the players to master all the generals will be an obstacle when the Fearless Mode mode is applied. But even so, the summer LPL 2024 can be a necessity, both for the audience to have an overview of the benefits that this new regime brings, as well as Riot can evaluate whether to expand this model or not in the future.