User blog comment:Fistful of Force/How to first pick./@comment-5324023-20120806201652

First thing I do is see if our last-pickers can pick our AD carries and top solos, and trade them to other players. This is what I'd like to do in an ideal situation, but it rarely works out this way.

They are either uncommunicative, uncooperative, trolls, AFK, insist on running X champion in Y lane (and then usually feed), or pick a second mid/carry/top/jungler after the rest of us have already decided on roles.

This isn't me being some elitist prick, insisting that last picks be shoehorned into roles they don't want. I sometimes take the support role even if I am first pick, because people just don't ward, or know the best places to put them, or even WHEN to put them.

Also, this is why I don't draft anymore. Too much stress, and too much to think about. And too many things that can go wrong, even when everyone cooperates.