We already know that the current banning system for MidWars simply doesn't work as well as it could. It always seems as if some ridiculous hero (Devo, Prisoner, Flint) slips by, and unless you're pink or blue you have zero control over it. If your team gets them, sweet, if not, you counterpick the best you can and still fight an uphill battle.
So, while the devs figure out how to improve on that system, let's talk about how we can pick up these heroes before the other team can.
I've yet to find a mod that lets you insta-pick a hero in MidWars, but I think I found a way to assign a hero pick to a key.
You can open console with Control + F8
From there you just need to put in the line below
bind [KEY] SpawnHero Hero_[HERO]
No brackets.
Hold the key you picked down before picking begins, and it should be able to repeatedly send the command to pick the hero, and very quickly too. Much easier than spam clicking on a portrait imo.
You may or may not know that the hero name does not necessarily need to be what goes into the [HERO] slot. For example, Devourer takes [Devourer], but Bramble takes [Plant].
So to contribute, I'll post some commands for the main heroes you wouldn't want the other team to have. Feel free to add more. Also, I'd like people to test if this works in regular (MM, AP) games. I can't test them in practice mode because it crashes every time I try to load it :(
So say you have a Number Pad. Here's what I would put if you would like to use it to pick heroes:
bind NUM1 SpawnHero Hero_Devourer
bind NUM2 SpawnHero Hero_Prisoner
bind NUM3 SpawnHero Hero_Flint_Beastwood
bind NUM4 SpawnHero Hero_Artillery
bind NUM5 SpawnHero Hero_Predator
bind NUM6 SpawnHero Hero_Jereziah
Lemme know if this helps at all. I figure while we can't always do anything about the bans, we can at least ensure those heroes end up on your team :P