Ban button in AW

GTRlover · December 2

My alliance cannot find the ban attackers button in AW. The ban button is nowhere to be found in the placement screen.

GTRlover · December 2

MrSakuragi · December 2

If you’re on the intermediate map you don’t ban attackers. It would be under the green “i” button.

GTRlover · December 2

Then how come the alliance we're up against right now was able to ban?

MrSakuragi said:
If you’re on the intermediate map you don’t ban attackers. It would be under the green “i” button.

SummonerNR · December 2

Top of your pic shows INTERMEDIATE War Map Tier.
There are no Bans in that Tier.

Don't think there are any in HARD Tier above it either, so did you maybe move alliances to a lower level one ?

Otherwise I'd say that your Ally probably lost enough War Rating that you maybe fell down to the next lower Map Tier, but I think you would have had to fall down 2 Map Tiers to get from a Ban'ing Tier to Intermediate.

SummonerNR · December 2

GTRlover said:
Then how come the alliance we're up against right now was able to ban?

Can you show pic of that.

GTRlover · December 2

SummonerNR said:
Top of your pic shows INTERMEDIATE War Map Tier.
There are no Bans in that Tier.

Don't think there are any in HARD Tier above it either, so did you maybe move alliances to a lower level one ?

Otherwise I'd say that your Ally probably lost enough War Rating that you maybe fell down to the next lower Map Tier, but I think you would have had to fall down 2 Map Tiers to get from a Ban'ing Tier to Intermediate.

I'm not sure what happened. It just sucks that our opponent was able to ban but we couldn't.

SummonerNR · December 2

(or are you assuming Bans because in Champ Selection there are some champs that are locked out of joining (maybe locked in prior alliance War Defense, or some issue between changing Ally Setting from “set defense separately for all 3 Map Tiers available” to now “auto-place from Current Tier to Up/Down automatically if we move up/down” since bottom icons don’t show 3 different tiers for defense)

Riryoku · December 2

I can think of a couple of things that might explain this issue:

1. The opposing alliance is in a higher Tier where bans are enabled, so they might have been able to configure the bans, but you couldn't.
2. @Pikolu mentioned that there is a bug where, for some reason, the game enforces automatic bans in wars up to Tier 9. These are automatic bans that cannot be configured.

In either case, this doesn’t mean that the other alliance intentionally banned attackers while you couldn’t. Instead, since you were unable to choose bans, attackers were banned randomly, and you might have to hope for good bans.

SummonerNR · December 2

Oh, now I see.
I’m in Hard (Tier 8), we don’t have a manual BAN that we can setup, except for if setting next higher Tier Map (Challenger).

But when I scroll down on Attacker Select Screen, I see Moon Knight, Thing, and Loki have BAN mark across them.

Don’t know if those are Random each war, or pre-set by Kabam for that Tier. (Never checked further down in selection in other wars, from where I normally just pick from among my top choices for attackers)

lcmjerl · December 3

Something odd in AW bans, no ban button available in my tier, but it seem active.

GTRlover · December 3

lcmjerl said:

Something odd in AW bans, no ban button available in my tier, but it seem active.

I get that message too

JLordVileJ · December 3

My yellowjacket was banned, I can't ban

SuperSam568 · December 3

Try coming out of “one map for everytHiNg “ mode. Get access to all 3 maps, and all 3 potential ban options.

Jake303AoS · December 7

I was wondering this too. We're in "hard" and don't have the ban button, although after changing defenses placement it prompts saying no attackers banned..? But then we have some of our attackers banned by the other team, and they don't seem random cause they're the main counters for the worst defenders, but idk. Clearly something odd going on here.

StronstVngr · December 8

lcmjerl said:

Something odd in AW bans, no ban button available in my tier, but it seem active.

I see this every time as well, even though we are in a lower tier war map. Not sure why Kabam would allow this pop up if we can’t do anything g about it… 🤔

Alone13 · December 8

MrSakuragi said:
If you’re on the intermediate map you don’t ban attackers. It would be under the green “i” button.

we are on hard map but still dont see any ban button, (current war, our opponents have some bans). I am an officer

SummonerNR · December 8

For HARD Map alliances.
Go to your DEFENSE SETUP, then go to UP (+) Tier Map to CHALLENGER version.
In there you can see (and set) your 3 Bans.

@Kabam Crashed
@Kabam Pinwheel
@KabamDORK

(*BUG*) Just don’t know why they seem to be active for the actual war going on in HARD map.

And don’t know (if your Ally has NOT choosen 3 to ban), whether game then just pick 3 at random for your opponents to NOT be able to use on Offense.

*if so, that might explain some people saying “why in the world would xxxx be selected as a ban ?” (because maybe that champ wasn’t, just random because opponent never chose any bans, because they’re in HARD map, so why set anything for Challenger when that's not what their current tier is)

And for those actually in Challenger, are VOID and SILK the champs that are automatic (one banned, the other NOT allowed to be banned) ? That's what else I see when I do the UP to Challenger in our Setup Defense.

SummonerNR · December 9

TIER 22 Ban ?? (is that EASY Tier Map, not even Hard or maybe Intermediate where this has been happening all season ?)

(from other)

winterthur said:
Tier 22: Attacker Ban

*and follow up from my own just above. While Challenger Map Blacklisted VOID is showing as Banned when looking at UP(+) Defense Setup, it doesn’t look like he is actually banned from selecting as Attacker (when on HARD Tier), unlike the other 3 alliance-chosen (or random) banned champs (which indeed are NOT allowed to be picked as Attacker when doing HARD Tier War)

winterthur · December 9

SummonerNR said:
TIER 22 Ban ?? (is that EASY Tier Map,

Easy Map.

Donavans · December 15

I've also had an issue finding a ban button. I'm an officer in my alliance. Tier 9, hard map. Trying to set bans for the next war. I've never been able to find it. Nobody in my alliance has

Donavans · December 15

SummonerNR said:
For HARD Map alliances.
Go to your DEFENSE SETUP, then go to UP (+) Tier Map to CHALLENGER version.
In there you can see (and set) your 3 Bans.

@Kabam Crashed
@Kabam Pinwheel
@KabamDORK

(*BUG*) Just don’t know why they seem to be active for the actual war going on in HARD map.

And don’t know (if your Ally has NOT choosen 3 to ban), whether game then just pick 3 at random for your opponents to NOT be able to use on Offense.

*if so, that might explain some people saying “why in the world would xxxx be selected as a ban ?” (because maybe that champ wasn’t, just random because opponent never chose any bans, because they’re in HARD map, so why set anything for Challenger when that's not what their current tier is)

And for those actually in Challenger, are VOID and SILK the champs that are automatic (one banned, the other NOT allowed to be banned) ? That's what else I see when I do the UP to Challenger in our Setup Defense.

Defense setup?

SummonerNR · December 15

Donavans said:
I've also had an issue finding a ban button. I'm an officer in my alliance. Tier 9, hard map. Trying to set bans for the next war. I've never been able to find it. Nobody in my alliance has

(edited)

Looks like your Alliance has their AW Config set for “AUTO PLACEMENT” option.
(see earlier screens, with the toggle bars for various options)

What that means is that you only Place Defenders in a SINGLE Tier Map (in your case, “Hard” map).
And the setting then allows for automatic placement (same defenders, same node #’s) if your Ally moves Up/Down to the next Tier Difficulty of Map.

So you will not be able to see the next higher Tier Map in which to see where Bans are setup, while you are using that Auto Placement setting.

But if you turn AUTO PLACEMENT to *off*, then in Defense Placement map screen, you will see 3 Icons on bottom right. (Current Tier, as well as UP and DOWN Tier's, where you can place defenders differently for each of the 3 maps)

Then, going to the UP Tier map (one above HARD), there will then be more icons along right side of screen, in which you can set your Banned Champs (preventing opponents from using as an Attacker).

**BUG**
Is that even though you may be playing on a HARD Tier Map, if your opponents have ever setup Bans into the Tier above that, they will still be used by the game to prevent you from choosing those as an Attacker on your “Hard” map war. (and conversely, your Bans against your opponent for their Attackers.)
Since Bans should only get used on the Tiers above Hard, that is the bug.

Donavans · December 15

Thanks! I'll check it out

Ban button in AW

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