My potential idea for a change to bans in ranked.

Before I actually get into this, Marvel Rivals is my first experience with a competitive shooter, so if this sounds like a bad idea, thats definetley my bad.

So, its no debate that Rivals needs more bans. Season 3 will land us with 40 heroes which means as of current the least ammount of available heroes in a ranked game would be 36 assuming they are all unique bans. And duplicate bans are not uncommon.

So my idea for the new ban change is that each team is given a third ban. However, it will not be available until either the second round of convoy or convergance, or if it gets to round 3 on domination. On paper this sounds kind of bad but I do have some reasons.

1. It stops people from one tricking. If there is a chance that your one trick character gets banned, there is actual insentive for the ranked one tricks to learn new characters. It also adds a bit of strategy to the third ban, because if you can sus out a one trick, you have to then decide between banning the best player on their team, or banning the one trick and funadmentaly making it a 6v5.

2. It simply makes each game more interesting to both play and watch. After watching bits of the recent tournament, I realised how boring the game is to watch because it realistically just the same gameplay on the same character. So forcing someone to switch actually makes the game more interesting. It might also give insentive to ban supports if they are being a huge problem.

Other than that, another simple change is just removing the ability to do duplicate bans. Not sure how they would impliment this but they could figure it out.

Again this might not be a good idea, and id like to hear other peoples thoughts on this. But personally I like this idea.