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Its been 5 years and still no word on something RIOT said. Can a RIOT employee please answer this

Sl0th Kidd··3 votes·980 views
Season One

Campions are being rotated during seasons, including "in-season" champions, this means while you can play all the champs in Normal Games, there will be some Champions that won't be allowed in the Ranked Games:

That's a very insightful question. We thought a lot about that, and in the short term, we're going to keep releasing champions. In the longer term, as we roll out competitive seasons, our first season will include all champions, but our additional seasons will feature a reduced set of "in-season" champions. This means that -- while you can always play all champions in [casual play] -- the featured competitive mode will have a reduced set of champions that rotates periodically as we cycle through seasons. This allows us to revitalize the metagame; if a particular strategy is getting really strong, one way to make things interesting is to just change the champion rotation. And it also reduces the learning burden for someone coming in, so they don't have to learn 60 champions -- they only have to learn 35 or 40, or whatever number we determine.

TL:DR Champions are not being rotated like they said they were going to do

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ModKnightsKemplar4 votes

I think it's pretty obvious that this idea has been abandoned. I am commenting just to see if we can get a Rioter to confirm, for your sake, but this far into a game this popular, if they did something like that, people would be outraged. I doubt it's going to happen.

Sl0th Kidd1 votes

it would just be nice to have them talk about something and finishing up with a said vote on what they talked about 5 years ago.

ModKnightsKemplar1 votes

I'm with you on that. Hence the comment.

It's more of a general observation of mine that Riot has done a fairly mediocre job of communicating on their own Boards when the status of any project changes. Some Rioters are aware enough of this to point it out, as well.

But, as Rioters have stated in the past, the best way to try to get feedback is to be cordial, and your post has done that. I wish people wouldn't downvote the post, because all it would take is a couple of minutes from a Rioter to see this and make a quick comment about it.

Phife2 votes

Umm yeah they are...

Ever heard the term "flavor of the month"?

Dr Poro2 votes

My guess is that at first they weren't as confident that they could keep balancing the game with an ever growing champion pool. But.. So far they've done a pretty damn good job. Sure you have OP champions and OP tactics, but the amount of advantage they give isn't THAT great. Cinderhulk is OP, but it's not like you can't win without it. The same goes with anything else and I suppose Riot is happy with the amount of variation there currently is (while they expected everything to be way more stale) that it's not necessary to rule out certain champions. Also, we have 6 bans that kind of work like a player-based rule out of certain champions and some champions might actually be nearly completely ruled out for (part of) a seasonKassadin item 3070

Sl0th Kidd1 votes

but what if those OP champions are just OP for a few months.. rotation hits now come up with some new starts.. this is where champion mastery would kick in.. master a ton of champions.. and those champions are now part of your "rotation"

Vesarixx1 votes

This would kind of suck, If I had to go an entire ranked season without playing Sona I probably wouldn't play ranked, or at least I wouldn't support. People don't really have the champion pools for this to be a workable idea, and in a competitive game losing ladder points because your main was not "in season" would probably drive people away.

Sl0th Kidd1 votes

You have to learn to be flexible.. after all. its the LEAGUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE OF BOFLEX

Vixanys1 votes

It is currently League of Smite Tanks

Sl0th Kidd1 votes

boflex = tanks

Vixanys1 votes

Where's the story behind that? I thought boFlex would be more carry focused.

Tin Tarantino1 votes

have you seen Alistar though? clearly hits the gym

Vixanys1 votes

Obviously Steroids. All Fluffy and not so tough!

Tin Tarantino1 votes

There are growth hormones in the beef

Vixanys1 votes

At least it isn't pink slime.

Sl0th Kidd1 votes

boflex makes people stronger... tanks are strong right now.. so tankstrenght = tanks(boflex+strong)

Vixanys1 votes

Touche. I can see that. I would think more along the line of "rock solid", but boflex is fine. I just didn't understand the terminology.

Vixanys1 votes

I know what a bowflex is, I didn't get the term being applied to tanks :P

Cause it's more like World of Tanks than World of Fighter (Fighters being associated with a bowflex more closely :P)

http://imgsdown.1mobile.com/group3/M00/4D/C3/S34UR1RKR-mAFb0RAA0wYpJXuJg363.png

Sl0th Kidd1 votes

You wouldnt have to go the entire ranked season.. every 2 months or so a new rotation would kick in

Vesarixx1 votes

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You wouldnt have to go the entire ranked season.. every 2 months or so a new rotation would kick in

still be pretty crappy to just arbitrarily not be able to play your main.

warpenguin5551 votes

thank god they didnt actually do that. Oh im so excited, i finally feel good enough withSkarner or somebody to play him in ranked. Lets do this. wtf, i cant pick him. dammit. now what. i was planning on playing Skarner. The rest of my junglers just arent the level i want them to be and i already said i would jg.

this would happen more then you would think honestly.

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