Fearless drafting regarding BLG vs FLY Game 5

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I’ve seen a lot of posts about how Game 5 of yesterday’s series was bad because of fearless draft, and how it negatively impacts viewer experience because of lower quality games.

I think both coaches and players are ill prepared for drafting, both champpool-wise and draft theory-wise. I don’t think any coach/player does this, but for sololaners it would be really easy to make a list with every champion playble on that role and list 3 counters for it(at least 2 lane/vacuum, and 1 theme) and this can easly be updated troughout a series, and would also help highlight champs that are potentially dangerous because of the lack of answers available to it. Also I think this is a solution to the problem that the current client does not support fearless so its actually really hard to find champs browsing there in a game 5.

The reason I bring this up now is because I heard it a lot (esp from Caedrel) that B1 Galio won Game 5 yesterday, when I belive that Galio is a really bad blindpick and could easily be answered with general preparation. Easiest example I can think of being Zeri, Ivern 1-2 from FLY, since we know that Quad plays Zeri.

With my list method mentioned above it would be really easy to identify champs that punish blind Galio eg Zeri, Smolder, Vex, Swain. And even tho some of these can’t be R1-2’d, if you know that you are going towards these champs then its easier to find picks for other roles aswell, and won’t end up with panic Lee Sin R2 xdd.

I have been thinking for a while that it’s really interesting (in a weird way) how coaches prep with exact drafts like “If they go Rumble B1 we pick Lucian, Galio” but I have never heard about a more general prep of like the above mentioned list of lane counters, maybe theme counters to find champs easier, separating champs into bunch of specific categories, etc. Been thinking about making a standalone tool to filter champs according to specific criteries witch would make drafting way easier, since the only thing the client allowes is filtering based on most played roles. And this could be done on paper aswell for coaches, so they could easily look up champs for eg “Mid, AP, Good into bruisers, stacks HP” because when Ryze is out you can easily blank on champs that do similar things.

What do you guys think should be done by coaches/player to make fearless drafting easier for themselves?

Posted Jul 9, 2025, 11:23 PM UTC

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