Hero bans seem to be a complete waste on lower elos since meta doesn’t matter. Next season why not have hero bans for says diamond & above where meta really plays a bit part, And remove hero bans for lower elos?
This would fix the problem of low Elos players claiming that hero bans are ruining the game & high elo players complaining the meta is boring.
In the recent PC Gamer interview with Jeff he admitted there’s no such thing as meta for the majority of ranked ladder and posited a potential change for hero bans to only apply to Masters and above.
To be fair I don’t think hero bans are completely bad, but whoever is doing the picks needs a correction in their method. Banning all the hit scan heroes in a weak is a bad play. Banning two healers is a bad choice of bans, banning shield tanks is a bad ban. DPS can deal with more bans then tanks or supports, but don’t take away every hero with a certain skill set because that just makes people not want to play the game since you aren’t allow certain heroes not be countered.
I agree with Jester. When Hero Bans first arrived, we were told it was 1 Tank, 2 Damages, and 1 Support . . . That was immediately thrown out the window for Week 2 of Rotation. They banned 2 Supports. Then, for Week 3, they banned 2 Tanks. And now for Week 4, They banned 6 Characters instead of 4 and they’re all hitscans! If they planned to change the Rotations like this, they should have tested it on the PTR first!