Alternative Comps Using Hero Pool

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I know hero pools have created a divide between players who want it gone and those who identify the positive aspects. I know the dev team has stated that they don’t plan on implementing a ban system similar to what we see in MOBAs, so I came with a system that could domine the best of both worlds:

Regarding Hero Pools, I’d suggest taking the best of boh worlds (or combining them the way other games to this). I’d go like this:

  • Bans are across all the board
  • System chooses one team to be A and one team to be B (bear with me)
  • Team A chooses 1 hero from a randomly chosen role (for example DMG)
  • Team B chooses 2 heroes from one of the remaining roles (for example Tank)
  • Team A chooses 2 heroes from the remaining role (in the example Support)
  • Team B chooses their heroes from the first selected role (DMG)
  • Team A chooses 2 heroes from the remaining role (Tank)
  • Team B chooses 2 heroes from the remaining role (Support)
  • Team A fills up their roster
  • Heroes CAN’T BE REPEATED between teams

I think this could solve the Hero Pool META changes, as METAs would have to be made on the fly.

I understand this breaks the Player-Main relationship and reinforces the Player-Role relationship that I beleive is the main reason for 2-2-2 and the hero pools to begin with.

I can see this being applied only to competitive, quick play could remain with the old system. And now that open queue is back, this could be applied to the new 2-2-2 system only as to differentiate it further to the open queue.

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This would cause more games to end before they even began. People might get their hero banned, then they throw. It will also just cause more fighting in voice/text chat.

This would increase the match time, which the Devs don’t want to do.

It has already been proven that banning 2 Supports or Tanks is a horrible idea since there isn’t that many of them compared to DPS.

This wouldn’t change up the Meta because the same heros would probably be banned over and over again.

This can also be used to target players. A 5 stack can the other teammates heros.

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