User blog comment:Nhan-Fiction/Draft Pick Needs More Champion Bans/@comment-5593561-20140506062350/@comment-5001455-20140506063607

Even in competitive play, it's a joke. Both sides having three bans doesn't do enough. All it means is if a team is willing to target ban you with all three whopping choices, they just hate your guts.

In Solo Queue, it's just a formality to have a banning phase. When people ban anything other than the FotM champs, the team that lets an "OP" champ slip through is usually in trouble to some degree.