Me watching Worlds 2017:

Raoul·Oct 7, 2017·3 votes·432 views

Have it running silently
Check in every hour to see if any unique pick has been made
See that its just the same 15-20 Champion pool again
Lose interest and do something else

Honestly, it shows how badly this game is balanced. No other MOBA game has that problem, i mean, for christ sake, even Heroes of the Storm manages to have a greater % of their champion pool viable for competitive play! Lets not even talk about DotA here...

The Champion pool for every Competitive event since FOREVER has been pitifully!

Honestly, if you guys at RIOT dont manage to get it, get help from the people at DotA for all I care!

How would that be for a challenge: Try to make 50% of your Champions viable for the next big event!

5 Comments

reportmepls123Oct 8, 20172 votes

i totally agree with you and it is cos riot did not balance it game well enough, like in dota if champ / hero if its overpowered its get a little nerf in a lot of chases but the other get a little buff...riot dont do same if champion / item is overpowered they just nerf it patch after patch until it is useless just like cait they realized after 3 fuckin month that cait is so bad they have to give her some buffs back to come in stage again...more than half of champion pool is forgetn about cos they are so bad goddamn awful to play with that nobody plays with them...in dota ever hero is op in his way and the skill wins cos macrowise the game is so much for complex than in league, yes i undestand that but try at least to balance the champions here 2 so if u play them good u have high reward....i mean just look at lee complexity to play with...and has less rewards than a decent cho...cos riot cant find how to balance their champs new patch ardent will get nerfed again and again until ppl forget about that items and it take its place with the other items ppl dont ever use in this game...(just let me ask u this when is the last time u saw Banner of Command, Mikael's Crucible, Poacher's Dirk, Zz'Rot Portal, Ohmwrecker ) items forgotten and there champions forget also but the list is even longer than this

GeminiRuneOct 7, 20171 votes

It's Riot! We kinda know what we're getting and that some Champs will never see light of day unless GAM pulls it off.
They're using a same patch for 6 weeks. A bit much? Maybe. But at least the first 2 weeks did have its share of variety.
Get some proper stats cause I'm sure it's more than 15-20.
Yes 37% is still a low percentage in terms of P/B. But it's still early in the main tournament
Still Riot...

Given your starting bullets you seem to be the kind of viewer that only wants to see a unique pick be successful. To that: Okay?

xJLx MCHammerOct 7, 20171 votes

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It's Riot! We kinda know what we're getting and that some Champs will never see light of day unless GAM pulls it off.

They're using a same patch for 6 weeks. A bit much? Maybe. But at least the first 2 weeks did have its share of variety.

Get some proper stats cause I'm sure it's more than 15-20.

Yes 37% is still a low percentage in terms of P/B. But it's still early in the main tournament

Still Riot...

Given your starting bullets you seem to be the kind of viewer that only wants to see a unique pick be successful. To that: Okay?

Let seeeeee Top Lane: Cho, Mao, Naut Jungle: J4, Gragas, Sej, Ezreal Mid: Ori, Syndra, Lucian, Ryze, Cass, Corki ADC: Kog, Trist, Xayah, Twitch Support: Janna, Lulu, Taric, Rakan

Outside of that, there have been some random picks here and there Galio, Graves, Varus, Trundle...etc

There has not been a lot of diversity and that's mostly because the style is team fighting comps with late game ADC.

GeminiRuneOct 7, 20172 votes

Again that's judging off of 3 days, 18 games, not counting bans as a metric of presence, and completely outing the entirety of the Play-Ins. It's basically what is picked is all that matters in most complaining eyes. And regardless, that's just mere numbers on an old patch.

But you know, this is what League has been for years now. Beyond competitive it's always been play what's strongest at the time. You don't and you're touted as a troll who's nothing more than an endangerment to the team unless proven or it is an insight with colorful strategy. Every new patch it's "nerf the OP" rather than "Buff the nonexistent." Somewhere there's a tradeoff of risk around that especially to the fanbase.

The OP compares to Dota. They make a mix of frequent to lengthy and you see that diversity. Now I won't speak for high elo Dota but I'll take that bet that the diverse metagame doesn't get burned to obscurity in general play as much as it does for League. Case in point: GAM and how fans flipped their lids over the mere two games of playstyle they had. But fans will meme that as "clown fiesta," "trolling," "cheese;" basically establish off meta as some kind of false success.

So what diversity do the players want? You hit it on the head that is a team fight metagame on this patch. All players did on the road to it though was talk items and the higher use champs to death, as usual. In the end, it's still Riot but I also feel like it's a bit of the community too.