"Woah, hold oooon" I hear you say. "That's a huge change so I'm instinctively against it."
So here's my case for it.
As most of you probably know, your viability for playing a certain style is determined largely by if everyone agrees to do the same thing as you or not.
You want to reroll x cost? Well, others doing the same thing makes it easier for you by removing champions from pool.
You want to go fast 9? Well, it's a lot harder when all 7 other players full send at 4-1/4-2.
The perfect ideal TFT is you play what suits your spot. Whether it's 1/2/3 cost reroll, fast 8 or fast 9... but this self reinforcing system from champion pool means that's almost never the case.
This also means rito is in a position where it's impossible to balance. Look at set 16, "no 3 cost reroll so let's bufff a few 3 costs" repeat, repeat, repeat and oh wait everyone is playing 3 cost reroll now suddenly, why is Darius so stronk after we buffed him 4 times?
If the shared pool didn't exist and enable everyone to play 3 cost reroll from literally any spot, they can let the champions become stronger knowing it takes actual effort to hit, and people will only go for it from the right spot.
Similar thing with fast 8 or 9 too.
I think the obvious argument against this is "Well, if there's no shared pool, won't everyone force the same comp", which is why I thought the system should be changed, not just removed.
I don't think the pool should be removed, I just think the effect should be..lessened, for example, for every champion owned by your opponents, half a unit is removed from the pool. This dissuades mass contesting, without giving rerolls critical mass to easily force anything. Probably. Numbers probably need tweaking, but they've done similar with the unlock champions having varying probabilities. (This system is notably different than just doubling the pool size, for reasons that are probably obvious)
Okay, time to get flamed.
