Remove BG Ban Options

Remove the ban phase from Battlegrounds.

Right now, bans aren’t accomplishing what they were designed to do, because the division matchmaking is broken. When Battlegrounds first launched, banning 3 champions was meaningful—you could remove a few problem defenders and actually shape the match. Now, you ban three and it barely matters, because the opponent still has an absurd bench of replacement meta defenders anyway: Onslaught, Enchantress, Serpent, Bullseye, Jean Grey, Yelena Belova, and a pile of other 2025 power picks. The “strategy” is basically cosmetic.

If the division matchmaking is broken, then let’s stop pretending bans make it fair. Someone with barely one R4 7-star on their Battlegrounds roster should not be in the same division as someone whose entire roster is R4 7-stars at sig 200. That isn’t competitive integrity—it’s a system failure.

So either fix the division matchmaking so bans matter again, or remove bans entirely and let players face whatever roster the opponent has. It would also make matches quicker and cut the unnecessary pre-fight friction in a mode that’s supposed to be fast, competitive, and skill-based.

Comments

BluntObject617

ahmynuts

There isnt an issue with matchmaking. So your main backing argument is invalid

BluntObject617

there’s not a problem with matchmaking? So it’s totally fair that somebody that only has one rank for seven star character is being matched to go up a against an entire roster of them? You’re just being a hater and playing devils advocate. You’re probably one of these freaks that spends like $10,000 a month on the game so you don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.

FrostGiantLord

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2921443#Comment_2921443

That's mostly cause not all whales grind BGs that often, or it's at the start of the season where everyone is still in VT. If you don't wanna face accounts like this, play later on in the BGs season

ItsClobberinTime

Then you should have an absurd bench of replacements to counter those exact same defenders you’re complaining about.
You can play people with accounts the same size as yours already, just not ranked because for obvious reasons you can’t expect to get the same rewards as everyone else if you’re trying to ignore and not face literally 50% of the competition just because their accounts are bigger than yours

NARWH4L

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2921443#Comment_2921443

Yes, it's fair. Do you want the rewards those other accounts are also playing for?