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What is the optimal hero ban strategy when facing a team with a strong comfort pick composition?



The optimal hero ban strategy when facing a team with a strong comfort pick composition is to target the heroes that enable their comfort picks to function effectively and to remove versatile heroes that can fill multiple roles within their strategy. A comfort pick composition relies on specific heroes that the opposing team excels at playing, often with a deep understanding of their mechanics and matchups. Banning these comfort picks directly removes the opposing team's strategic advantage, forcing them to play heroes they are less familiar with and potentially disrupting their overall game plan. However, blindly banning only the most obvious comfort picks can be predictable. Therefore, identify heroes that synergize exceptionally well with those comfort picks. For example, if the enemy team heavily relies on a specific tank to enable their marksman, banning that tank can severely limit the effectiveness of the marksman, even if the marksman itself is not banned. Secondly, consider banning versatile heroes that can flex into multiple roles and counter your team's composition. This prevents them from adapting their draft to directly counter your strategy. This requires analyzing the opposing team's hero pool and identifying heroes that they are proficient at playing in different roles. The overarching goal is to disrupt the core synergies within their comfort pick composition and force them to deviate from their preferred playstyle.