I see people asking about it so why not make a thread to suggest it and see how many people agree with it.
The option should allow you to choose one class that you won’t be matched against ( you can’t be that class either) in ranked.
Since it’s unlikely that anything will be done about the matchmaking at least give us the option to not play against the class that annoys us the most.
Class bans are bad because they make the game harder to balance.
Instead of one meta that needs to be balanced, you’re looking at multiple smaller metas which develop among players who ban a specific class. Instead of trying to fix one game, you’d be creating multiple smaller games all of which need to be balanced together.
Eventually you’ll have class bans incorporated into the balance design, giving you less freedom in your van choices: you’ll find yourself having to choose between banning your worst matchup and banning the one deck that you really hate to play against.
Not to mention often a class will have more than one deck in the meta, and your choice of deck will have good matchups against one and bad matchups against the other.
And of course, without having to worry about their worst matchup, decks can become greedier/more one-dimensional, leading to more polarized matchups. With multiple of those, a single class ban wouldn’t keep you from having non-games.
I think it’s more about not facing the same hard counter 5 times in a row or getting hit with Tickatus when you’re playing a late game deck.
Well, that’s 1 “against” and 0 “for” so far.
Great Idea, that would solve many Problems and give other Control Decks without Tickatus a Chance to win, i would suggest this Idea a long time ago!
I’m on your side. Now we’re 1 and 1. I’d actually ban Paladin at the moment.
I’ve really never been a fan of blizzard ever fixing anything beyond basic balance. It seems like from my WoW experience that having Blizzard step in just causes even bigger problems.
Losing is part of the game and you need to find ways around those losing matches and get better. Having a secondary or even 3rd deck is an easier way for you to fix your own issues. Banning X deck/class isn’t making you any better at the game, it’s just making you a sore loser. Not trying to insult you but you are doing it to yourself.
We won’t Blizzard to add more fun things, not take things away.
Think you’re missing the point here as well. It’s not about taking things away. If anything it allows for more diversity in decks because you don’t have to worry about your worst matchup. No matter how many other great decks you have, they’re all almost powerless in front of the matchmaking. This suggestions is not about winning though, but purely for the fun of the players. If you don’t want to ban a class you don’t have to, but some people seem to want to option.
I’m personally neutral on the issue. I don’t think it’s a good or bad idea.
So far it seem we have 2 yes and 2 no.
Class bans will never happen. Would be amazing if it did because you would find anytime a deck becomes OP then the community will balance that deck themselves.
It will just be mirror matches for that deck 
True.
But that’s not what would happen.
With the option to ban a class you run into a much more restricted pool of opponents than with no ban. While you can’t face opponents playing the class you’ve banned, you also can’t face opponents who have banned your class.
Everyone would ban whatever class is most effective against their deck. Aggressive decks would ban Priest unless another class has a really good Control deck. Control decks would ban whatever class has a good Combo deck. And Combo decks would ban whatever class has the best Aggro deck.
So Aggro won’t be matched up with Control because they ban Control and they won’t be matched up with Combo because Combo bans Aggro. Control won’t be matched up with Combo because they ban that and they won’t be matched up with Aggro because Aggro says no. Same story for Combo. In the end the majority of matchups will be Aggro vs Aggro, Control vs Control and Combo vs Combo.
And in the end it will be very hard to see if a specific deck is actually OP since it won’t face the entire meta.
The reason it will never happen is because something like that is a nightmare to implement, and has so many ways it can go wrong.
The most obvious one is that queue times for games go up since the system has to take extra steps, so people play less overall. Can’t imagine that’s a positive result.
I’d support that. I already close the game when I match against Priest.
Please ban Scissors. Sincerely, Paper.
P.S. Rock is fine.
We’re living in the computer age. Such a change won’t take them time or effort and it won’t have noticeable impact on queue times. Just consider for a second how many variables (hundreds to thousands) the matchmaking algorithm takes into account when choosing your opponent. This is just one more variable.
The implementations pretty much only depends on how much people want it and if that option is in the blizzard dev blacklist like tournament mode.
Hs is doing pretty well at the moment and they don’t really have a reason to make it more enjoyable atm.
Seems like it’s 4 yes and 2 no
For some people I really can’t tell if they’re against based on their comments or just don’t believe it’s possible for it to happen
I say no, because it would unfairly affect certain decks more than others, and you should only be able to punish other players with your cards, not with a pre-match check box
ok but using this "ban a class"option should make it so you cant rank up or gain exp
and of course those matched agaisnt them shouldnt be able to lose any stars or end their streak if matched vs someone banning a class
In my case more don’t think its going to happen. I’m relatively indifferent to the idea. It might make more sense in casual to deal with some people’s frustration with the queueing there though. That’s been a longer existing problem, and probably more of a number relevent problem if were looking at a majority of players
im for it its just retarded to play against same decks and counter over and over.With bans ppl will play more decks
I don’t know if I’d be for this or against it honestly. Probably against it because I’m a bit of a noob and the increased matchmaking times would have a bigger effect on me than being able to ban one class when I frequently lose to like 3 or 4 of the classes lol. The only classes I usually beat are mages and warlocks, everything else is a tossup at best.
That said I don’t really think they’d just implement this straight up as suggested. In the tournaments they can ban a class but they also have to bring up to four different classes for each match. So they can’t just ban their weakness because they have multiple weaknesses.
Right now the only thing keeping Paladins deck winrate under 60% is Rush Warrior. If paladins ban Warrior, they become even more prevalent than they already are. Banning a class would have an opposite effect from what OP wants, and instead of creating more decks, it would limit it even more and increase queue time.
4 yes, 6 no
Enough with the queue time argument. I just isn’t true. It won’t make a noticeable difference. Anyone who says otherwise just doesn’t know what they’re talking about.