User blog comment:WOB Silas/Tank Syndrome/@comment-3334534-20110816000553

hmm funny thing, I played tanks the most and I generally end up being really good at them. I rarely play an ashe, which I think I'm pretty good at as well. I can play a good soraka or sona. I can play a xin or udyr pretty well too. So, I guess the idea is, try all the characters you got/free, pick the ones you like from different roles, basically pick a few carries you like pick a few supports pick a few tanks and off tanks. Learn to play them.

As Lovely said above, pick a champ you want to practice off the bat but don't lock in, if the team makes good picks you get to play it, if not then you might have to switch, but most of the time I'd say you will have your way and you will get the chance to play your champion.

That obviously don't apply to ranked, but there idea is similar you don't know who you will get, you might end up with 4 ppl who are good at tanking and only 1 person who good at supporting. Should you not pick a single carry? Absolutely not, this is why talking to the team is so important.

Honestly I think 80 seconds is decent time but when you need to talk with your team to decide who playing what and only then pick champion and select runes/masteries/spells, 80 seconds is really a short time to do all that. On top of that I really don't see why Riot still keeps the penalty for leaving champion select, if you see that you're ending up with bad team comp, I'd be inclined to leave.