Agent Ban

I wanted to bring up a discussion: if rito continues to release new agents in a similar way to League of Legends, do you think the competitive scene would adopt bans?

Personally, I believe that the level of play would drop drastically because anti-strat, training etc.. would be completely disrupted with just one ban. The consequences would be that flexible players would gain much more value also.

yes once we have 100 agents in the game, bans will become necessary, in fact it will ADD to anti stratting as you will need to be more adaptible it would be similar to like map bans as in one team e.g. Loud Less viper ban and then he has to play cypher or something. could be interesting for sure

We need agent bans or the game is gonna get stale soon

how about 3 bans now

Isnt this already done at a japanese off season tourney back then and it went quite well i believe so only a little more wait probably

just talked about it yesterday xd for sure it will be implemented at some point

It's too early for that

We need at least 10 agents on every role to consider agent banning

Both the games are very different from each other.
Agent Ban is not very realistic in Valorant because the utility available and their usage and the place that the agents hold in the specific scheme of a round is all very stagnant and not that flexible.
The aim of both the sides in LoL is the same unlike in valorant where teams have specific goals.
The agents that are used also depends on the maps and map ban is already in place to randomize the compositions played.

To make the new agents more viable, Riot should work on their maps and make it suitable for different agents from the same category to be played efficiently.

Val is less about being adaptable and more about preparing good strats and set plays. agent bans would ruin that - so i wouldn't want to see it

as long as riot keeps the game mostly balanced, and the map pool changes frequently, there is no reason to add agent bans.