![]() TrustĮxperimental players and folks who just want to practice have multiple hurdles to overcome in Blind Pick. This gives an unfair advantage to those with the fastest fingers and it forces everyone else to fill in what’s left or leave. Some players bypass the negotiation altogether by locking in first. For a queue with no bans, it’s tough to play what you want in Blind Pick. ![]() This is fine for players with an auto-fill mindset, but imagine: You get home from work and just want to try out the new champ, or maybe you’re getting back into League after a long break and want to ease back in on a comfort pick. Asking players to negotiate a functional team comp with strangers, against the clock, and with limited communication tools is a recipe for friction. It pushes player choice into champ select, which makes the queue pop quickly. So if you only have time for one game, you can queue up with confidence knowing that when the queue pops, it’s game on! What’s wrong with Blind Pick? BP = Blood Pressure?īlind Pick was designed and optimized for fast queue times. Moving champion and position choices to the lobby gets you in game faster, with higher agency over what (and who) you play, and cutting out some of the collisions, toxicity, and complexity that comes with Blind Pick. Meaning, there is no champ select in this mode. Quickplay is a new queue that will replace Blind Pick and give you faster access to the game, with a faster process that asks players to make their choices up-front and then goes directly from the lobby to the game. Today we want to dig into that a little more and tell you why we’re making this change, how it works, and when it’s coming out. It’s coming this year!Ī few months back Pu “Riot Pupulasers” Liu, our Game Director, mentioned that we were looking to solve some issues that we were seeing with Blind Pick by replacing it with a new format called Quickplay. Hey everyone, we’re Tara “Riot Sailormoon” Chen and Jason “CrabDust” Cohen, the Product and Design Leads of Quickplay here with an update! That’s right, we haven’t forgotten about it since Riot Auberaun initiated this project months ago.
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