New seasons should start within 2 weeks after world's final and here's why

Kledy McKledFace·3/9/2018, 5:21:11 PM·3 votes·402 views

Because every seasons so far (since season 3) have had this awful effect on esports : First 5-8 weeks are completely unbalanced and in favour of the ''Pick and Win'' meta

This is huge it's more than half a split of unbalanced characters. Not talking about play styles, simply too OP champions in general. This is not healthy for the LCS because let's face it, Pros can play any champion. It's in their decision making that makes a great team instead of a bad team (could take about how TSM are sudendly good since the game is leading to be more balanced vs Liquid that always suck at the end of seasons but i don't want Liquid and TSM haters arguing here).

But why start right after worlds so fast? Simply because splits always start the year after worlds (january), very close to a new season big changes. Given enough patches (5-8) to actually balance the game around your champions (not even items or objectives), this is too far in a split's season to be balanced. You guys are trying to balance items or champions between the end of worlds and new split, but I think they way of meta is mostly lead by objectives (minions/turrets/drags/gold values). So, to create an easier balance environment and the tiem for you guys to understand your own changes, to still change the meta in the same split, it would be better for riot to split the champions balance versus the meta change. Balance your champions before the split starts (and some adjustments during the split of course) and then actually play with the in-game values during a split. That would cause a real balance and game environment where it's not lead by a must-first-pick 5 champions for the firsts 5 weeks of a split as we've been seeing since the lasts seasons.

Ok my english sucks sorry.

Anyway why not the idea to start a new season this before worlds (big changes)? Because it causes an awful environment where bests teams aren't represented well (season 5 darius-fiora every FUCKING game you guys remember that?).

It also sucks for us to see all the same champions banned at the start of a split, all the same freaking champions picked (just Zoe this season is a complete joke). If you had released her in early November as the season 8 would have started, would we have seen her every game 100% pick and ban and got sick of her? Everybody hates the champion now because she was in every single games. She would still have been in all game, but no pros, only solo queue leagues... Take a look at Ornn. When he was released there were not pro plays in general (I don't count all stars it's more for fun that real pro plays). Just after worlds, you've taken enough patch to balance him right (a bit overpowered at the start of season 8 but not too much) and you could find the adjustments to get him picked like 1/4 games in time for 2018 spring split.

That's the change I'm hoping for Riot. It's been 2 seasons in row the LCS are sucking hard for the firsts 5-8 weeks (and more, this season is the worst so far for variety of picks and bans). I want more balance and I understand it takes several weeks with the big changes that come with every season, so why not push forward the changes earlier so you can balance your champions fast enough for the next season to come? And to keep us intrigued in the game change the meta by touching mostly the the objectives?

Dearly,

A Zoe hater

3 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer3/9/2018, 5:47:23 PM1 votes

Yeah, pro players totally don't need breaks from high stress environments with every action criticized by outsiders!

BlueThingamajig3/11/2018, 2:04:11 PM1 votes

I misread your post several times before commenting, but now that I understand what you're saying, I totally agree.

Watching the pre-season balancing take so long to get to a comfortable state (read: not have 3 must-ban champions for red side) is a real problem. I know that Riot has balancing issues for a dozen (14?) distinct server regions, each with their own idea of OPs and weak characters, which confounds the balancing immensely.

Having the new season patch come much sooner after worlds would be a huge benefit for the competitive scene, and be of very little impact on the solo-queue ladder.

The only argument I can devise against it is the working schedule of Riot. With a winter break from work, putting the preseason patch right before they go on vacation is an easy way to leave the game in a terrible balance state for a period when nobody is doing anything to fix it.