IMT vs TL: Showcasing whats wrong with League
Lost the first team fight and the game was over. Not one team fight after that was remotely competitive.
The game only lasted over 20 minutes because IMT cannot close out a game.
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I will agree that out in solo q, comebacks are rare, but much of that is people grieving and surrendering.
They won the game didn't they? That means they closed it out. Just because they didn't close it out in an exciting or spectacular fashion, doesn't mean they can't close games out.
They had one last night that took 40-50 minutes and neither team had a single kill for the last 25 minutes except at the nexus. One commentator was talking about Immortals. But the other one got it right. He said don't blame immortals for this. If you're in control of the game and the other team is going to let you win without a fight, don't fight.
Fans WAAAAAAH. Matches are too long boring farm fests.
Riot: Ok we'll fix that.
Fans WAAAAAAAH Matches are too snowball.
Riot had a backlash over how long games were in the past because people wanted to play more games in less time so Riot came up with a very easy to snowball formula.
Towers are meh or at least were if anyone remember 7-8 months ago when towers only took 2 shots and they fell. Eliminated wards most notably the green wards in which if you weren't a support had great benefits as they didn't get destroyed by just walking over them so it caused people to buy pinks to eliminate them before their life timer were up.
Do I think League gets snowballed too easily - YES, but like I said most of the community didn't/don't want to play 40-60 min games or them to be competitive. Ask anyone if they would rather win or lose in 20 mins or win or lose in a 50 min game and you will get the 20 min option at least 70% of the time. Not to mention close to 70-75% of the community are bronze players so if Riot doesn't listen to what most of the fans say they will lose most of the players that actually play this game. Most players always complain about when they play ranked they need to carry their garbage teammates so Riot made it to which if you can get a lead you can win much easily than in the past seasons.
Doesn't help that the meta is around champions that have 7 year stuns so it's easier to just win off those stuns that are on 3 sec cooldowns, champions that can just press R and kill just about anyone, Dragons give off benefits that increase your AD and AP, movement speed etc, 1st tower gold etc.
I wish I played more League back in 2014 when games weren't always ending 31-7 in kills at the 20-28 min mark.
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? P1 vs. FLY Game 1 was a huge comeback, and there are other comebacks or near comebacks we've seen lately ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
So this is the game that tells you this. Of the many other games that have been proof of this. Okay. I've seen numerous games already across the leagues that have had this similar snowball effect. This is snowballing! This series (or game 1 because game 2 is still going with a clearly different outcome) is not the first of its kind. In fact, haven't there already been something like 4 perfect games this season already? That would have been a better way to describe the "what is wrong with pro league" topic
I don't agree with that. IMT was pretty decently behind at that point of the match. They managed to even the game up and flip the gold advantage to them as a result of that Baron fight, but TL had every chance afterwards to win it. And there was a lot of things TL could have punished IMTs on. But they didn't, and TL continued to keep misplaying that match. Lourlo was not taking full advantage of Shen's Ultimate or using the Taunt to lock down the squishier targets on IMT and Piglet's positioning choices in particular stand out to me.