Season 8 is the worst season in League History.

RazgrizReckningz··6 votes·3,139 views
You have trampled over the old design philosophies of league, and the imbalance they prevented

To add on to what this man said, generally every tank has been underpowered and thrown into the trash can, especially in jungle, with few exceptions such as Volibear. Season 4 5 and 6 were assassin meta, and i guess Riot didn't learn their lesson and decided to make the majority of assassins, and generally all high mobility champs are extremely overpowered, (Nocturne, Ekko, Hecarim, Azir, Warwick, Volibear,) with Volibear being only Tank who is without debate overpowered at the moment. I guess since Tencent took over Riot we knew it would all go downhill.

Edit: When i say tanks i don't mean bruisers. Bruisers are doing fantastic. But the hard tanks are suffering. Xin Zhao is by no means a tank as a commenter said. The only tank I didn't mention ,that i see doing ok in the jungle, is Dr. Mundo.

If I had to choose what season was the best, I would have to say, undoubtedly, season 2 and 3.

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TempName748145 votes

"current season is worst season in history" ~at least 100 people, every season

dunder kill4 votes

You obviously weren't around for Dynamic queue

KVbqbFsC8e2 votes

And the months of blatant lying that went along with it.

GigglesO1 votes

You mean Riot doesn't blatantly lie to us all the time?

KVbqbFsC8e1 votes

Never to the extent that they did with the months of promising solo que.

GigglesO1 votes

I just hear riot saying "trust us" every time a change goes though that we don't want.

I don't want to sound like a little crybaby on this comment, but we just got done complaining about high burst high mobile champions, and what do they design? New irelia, I can't wait to see her out. Shes either gonna be under powerful easy to fight, or just ban worthy like all new hyper mobile looking champs.

Best Ekko NA2 votes

While I agree, Season 8 is looking rough.. I don't quite mesh with the latter. I do not see tanks being weak at all. The new Runes make Tanks more powerful now than they've perhaps EVER been in the history of this game. In previous seasons, all "Tanks" got from the rune system were raw stats. This new Rune system gives Tanks lots of everything, as well as many more choices to pick from. Other classes of champions did also grow more powerful, but that does not make Tanks weak. Juggernauts in particular, are looking quite oppressive right now in Top lane. While maybe they are not pure tanks, they soak just as much damage and perform a similar job.

As for the last part of your rant, it doesn't quite add up as:

  1. Azir is a late game champion who is pretty easily bullied early on by quite a few mid laners.
  2. Hecarim has been doing really badly for the entire season (under 50% win rate).
  3. Ekko has been a middle tier mid lane for a while now, and is also more a late game champion like Azir (low base damages).
  4. Volibear is below average win percentage in Top lane, and only a middle tier Jungle.

Out of the 5 champions you mentioned, only one is really valid, which would be Warwick. He's been consistently powerful throughout the entirety of Season 8.. but I still do not see him extremely mobile, or even remotely overpowered. In fact, the only reason Warwick has done well consistently is due to the fact that he has good early clear and can Tank a lot of damage (which goes against your entire post about Tanks being weak).

What's even more funny, is that most of the meta champions right now are all Tanks, Juggernauts, and other similar beef cow champions.

We have:

Top Laners: (In The Top 10)

  1. Singed (Tank / Specialist) http://champion.gg/champion/Singed/Top?league=platplus

  2. Sion (Tank / Vanguard) http://champion.gg/champion/Sion/Top?league=platplus

  3. Darius (Fighter / Juggernaut) http://champion.gg/champion/Darius/Top?league=platplus

  4. Illaoi (Fighter / Juggernaut) http://champion.gg/champion/Illaoi/Top?league=platplus

Junglers: (In The Top 10)

  1. Nunu (Tank / Warden) http://champion.gg/champion/Nunu/Jungle

  2. Warwick (Fighter / Diver) http://champion.gg/champion/Warwick/Jungle

  3. Udyr (Fighter / Juggernaut) http://champion.gg/champion/Udyr/Jungle

  4. Aatrox (Fighter / Diver) http://champion.gg/champion/Aatrox/Jungle

  5. Jax (Fighter / Skirmisher) http://champion.gg/champion/Jax/Jungle

  6. Shyvana (Fighter / Juggernaut) http://champion.gg/champion/Shyvana/Jungle

  7. Xin Zhao (Fighter / Diver) http://champion.gg/champion/XinZhao/Jungle

I'm not entirely sure where you are getting the idea that Tanks / Juggernauts are weak, but they are not. Beef cows are dominating the game right now. It's so bad in fact, that they're even playing off roles such as Sion and Rek'sai Support.

Yara01 votes

wow never heard that one before.

Ranmaru1 votes

sion was always support

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