For what it's worth, I toggle my lock. I also obsessively check my minimap and play primarily melee characters. I unlock in order to check on things and so forth.

The problem is, the default option for the game is locked camera.

Anyway, despite me playing both locked and unlocked camera, you'll notice that I'm the first reply to the OP and I'm advocating unlocked camera.


There's nothing wrong with locking your camera, and I do wish you could flip the HUD, but if you're playing with a lock camera, you have no room to complain about any purple side disadvantage, because it's a disadvantage you're giving yourself.

Locked camera should not have to be a disadvantage, it's a play style choice, but the people who choose it are disadvantaged from purple side. For some people it's easier to have the camera follow your champion and show you what's happening in your AO. I was glad to see the implementation of hold clicking the minimap for quick unlock but that's beside the point. If you're more comfortable with a locked camera you shouldn't have to feel disadvanttaged just because of what side of the map you're on. I've played locked and a bit of unlocked and everytime I played unlocked I felt out of my comfort zone to the extreme on both sides. However, yes, if you're used to playing with unlocked you can consider both sides to be "even" and that works for you, but you aren't the only type of person playing the game. It's not like Riot added the locked camera just for giggles.

Tl;dr Playing unlocked doesn't make you any better, and purple side is a b***h for people who play locked

Purple team is pure garbage. It's 2013 and Riot can't fix the camera view to make it look the same as blue side which is really sad. I never play Aram's or blind pick because of being on the purple side. I play with an unlocked camera however it's just plain nonsense where I can't see that far ahead on my skillshots. If I end up landing on purple I always pick support. In draft pick I'll que dodge second pick most of the time and in proving grounds I always go team 1. I played Ranked in Brazil making it to gold however I stopped because of this new league system and the fact that que dodges means league point loss. However according to this new update 03/07/2013 if you don't pick a champion, everyone gets kicked out of que and it doesn't count as que dodging. This will make me play ranked and stick to first pick(blue side).

The purple side has many flaws. Small things are that you cannot buy from the shop at the far right side on the platform as you can on the far right side of the blue side.