HUGE UPDATES for the 2016 season.
Highlights:
-New Champ Select info
--You now enter ranked games showing the roles you want most
---Matchmaking will place you with players that vary in what roles they want, teambuilder-esque.
--You can now choose the champ you'd like most before pickban for the rest of your team to see. Make sure your team knows you want to play that permabanned champ.
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THE LAST THREE PICKS ON THE TEAM GET TO CHOOSE THE BANS--Pick is now one at a time, though unchanged from the 1-2-2-2-2-1 order. Pick Order is now enforced, so the guy below you in a twopick can't instalock.
--Lock-Ins are now required to progress pickban, or else it results in a Dodge.
-YOU CAN NOW RANKED QUEUE WITH ANY NUMBER OF FRIENDS. This means Solo Que, Duo Que, Trio Que, etc, all the way up to a full Queue of teammates for Draft.
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CLIMBING SUB-GOLD IS NOW EASIER. YOU NOW GET AN AUTO-WIN IF YOU LOSE A SERIES AND GET ANOTHER NEXT GAME--Does not apply to the 5-game series jumping a whole League.
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Riot has hired Gaben to dictate how they make more money-
Riot finally decides to take something cool from DotA2 but instead of any of the shit people want they take Valve's method of making money-Riot's introducing a new Key/Crate and Crafting system which is pretty much exactly like how Valve does it
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The Hatocolypse is expected to come to League within the year-More group stuff called 'clubs' so we can all have a MotK chat on League or something, didn't read very much into it.