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I know that you ban your counters, (ex. akali vs vlad) and champs you are unfamiliar with, but are there other factors as to what you ban, when, why, and how?

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    I vote to reopen this question since it's a common problem faced by the league of legends community and it's also objectively answerable.
    – Jutschge
    Feb 16, 2015 at 9:40
  • @Shadur Well Banning champions is a really complex topic in LoL. There's also a difference between banning champions in high and low elo play. In short you can say that you ban Strong or Flavor of the month champions first, counters to a certain champion second and new or champions you have a personal problem with last.
    – Jutschge
    Feb 20, 2015 at 10:48

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Considering it's for solo-queuing :

*Whether you're the first pick or not.

  • It might be helpful not to ban useful champions (hello Warwick and Zed) if you are.

*How your team wants to play collectively (All AOE, Strong late game/early game, High CCs)

  • If your team doesn't play well in late game, consider banning them. (Vayne comes to mind)

*Reading how the enemy's side ban champions.

  • This is never accurate but is still useful. (e.g. banned Morgana = Leona)
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    banned morgana can also be a thresh or blitzcrank
    – DropDeadSander - EUW
    Feb 4, 2015 at 11:26
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A couple of ways

  1. Ban the Flavor Of The Month champions - there's sometimes a champion which is clearly over-powered and going to be nerfed within weeks. It's usually worth banning this champion

  2. If you're at low elo, ban Katarina... an experianced player will often pick her up, and she absolutely annihilates low ranked players who don't know how to deal with her

  3. Ban specific counters to champions you (or your team) will be going for.

  4. Ban counters who are a big problem to your play style. ie Vi is a nightmare for most ADC's, so if your team relies on the ADC to carry hard, she may be a good ban.

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  • I've deleted my own comments, then, as this appears to be unconstructive chit-chat. May I suggest you remove your own, and we can keep the comments section free for actual discussion of the answer?
    – Jon Story
    Feb 20, 2015 at 11:52

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