Ban Phase
The part of draft where each team removes heroes from the pool before picking.
The ban phase is the portion of draft where teams eliminate specific heroes from being picked at all, typically targeting the strongest meta picks or the enemy team's known comfort heroes. In the current meta, bans skew heavily toward disruptive frontline tanks and fighters — heroes like Paquito or Gloo are banned in a majority of ranked and competitive games specifically because they're too strong or too flexible to risk leaving open. Losing a key hero to an enemy ban forces a team into their backup pick.