Shortlists in BG

Been thinking a lot about the drafting phase in BG.
I know the randomness makes it challenging. But I can imagine that everyone has faced times that you are disapointed that you didn't had the change to choose a favorite champ.
Maybe it is a good idea to create shortlists of, for example, 10 champs out of your deck, so that during each drafting fase you get at least 1 champ out of that shortlist?
Making it more possible to create certain tactics in BG.
Wouldn't this be a good implementation?

Comments

ahmynuts

No it wouldn't

Guest120193746239

If you want everyone to draft bullseye everymatch

Jonnathan05

If you want everyone to draft bullseye everymatch

It is not a 100% guarantee for a champ. But a higher change rate.
And otherwise you try to learn how to deal with Bullseye

Wicket329

Just to flesh this out as a concept, I think what you’re asking for is the ability to designate one or more champions to guarantee that they show up in your draft.

I have a lot of questions about this suggestion.

1) what if your pre-selected champ or champs are banned?
2) during the ban phase, is it revealed to your opponent which champion(s) you have selected in your guaranteed draft?
3) when in the champion draft do they arrive? First round? Last round? Every round until you actually select them?

I don’t know if anybody here played the Megaman Battle Network games, but they had a deck-builder mechanic of 30 battlechips and you’d get five to select from at a time when in combat. You could favorite one of your 30 to guarantee that it was in your hand from the start of the fight. I don’t know if a similar mechanic would make sense here, and it’s subject to all the questions I had above, but I wouldn’t totally dismiss it out of hand

Jonnathan05

Just to flesh this out as a concept, I think what you’re asking for is the ability to designate one or more champions to guarantee that they show up in your draft.

I have a lot of questions about this suggestion.

1) what if your pre-selected champ or champs are banned?
2) during the ban phase, is it revealed to your opponent which champion(s) you have selected in your guaranteed draft?
3) when in the champion draft do they arrive? First round? Last round? Every round until you actually select them?

I don’t know if anybody here played the Megaman Battle Network games, but they had a deck-builder mechanic of 30 battlechips and you’d get five to select from at a time when in combat. You could favorite one of your 30 to guarantee that it was in your hand from the start of the fight. I don’t know if a similar mechanic would make sense here, and it’s subject to all the questions I had above, but I wouldn’t totally dismiss it out of hand

Some good questions, and in my mind/concept
1) then you are unlucky. It can't be the idea to exclude champs from banning (or a whitelist/blacklist like in AW should also be implemented)
2) no, it should definitly not be visible for the opponent.
3) during the 3 draft fases with 5 possible champs. Each time 1 of those 5 is from the shortlist, and always another champ. So if in the first draft you don't pick the champ of your shortlist, the next draft is at random again. But off coarse there is still the posibility that more champs of your shortlist pop up, but always 1 guaranteed

PT_99

We have "shuffle signet" for it.
If you don't like your 5 heroes to choose from, just use shuffle, it will give you another 5 options.

So you have 10 options, this feature already exists.

Jonnathan05

We have "shuffle signet" for it.
If you don't like your 5 heroes to choose from, just use shuffle, it will give you another 5 options.

So you have 10 options, this feature already exists.

Still no guarantee, and also a cashgrab because you have to pay resources for it.
This is an addition to be able to play more tactical. You don't have to set your top 10 champs in a shortlist. But some champs were you can create a certain def or att tactic

xLunatiXx

No
More consistency = same draft every game from everyone.
Boring
Leave some magic in it

Ayden_noah1

Do you have to put ten champs on the shorlist. What happens if I only put one champs on the shortlist, the odds of getting them 100%. I would definitely put less than 10 champs on the list since the odds would be better to get them. Putting 10 is too much since it will be the same 10 for most players. BG in PVP makes it more interesting since the draft is random thus the champs you draft could determine your faith. This makes it harder if you have a bad draft and easier if you had a great draft. Also this will allow players to try using different attackers and defenders that you wouldn't normally use.

GroundedWisdom

Choose 30 Champs on your Roster that you're good with. There are definitely enough.

captain_rogers

You already have the guarantee to choose 30 of your favourite champs and get 7 of it every match