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Played since season one: I've never been less excited for a new season.

Durfain·1/15/2018, 10:51:03 PM·47 votes·2,392 views

New seasons should be an exciting time full of the joys of experimenting with the large changes to the game and trying to do well in your placement matches. Instead we have the joys of:

  • Increased homogenization. The only choices you have now to customize your champion is your item build and the choice of six runes. Compare this to previous seasons where we had the choice of 30 runes, 30 mastery points and an item build. I know which system I preferred.

  • The shortest games since I started playing most of which are just snowball fests.

  • Too much damage caused by unbalanced masteries.

  • Lack of defenses caused by the removal of runes.

  • Getting one shot by duskblade assassins.

  • Getting one shot by ADCs who are suppose to be sustained damage dealers not burst damage dealers. Remind me again why ADC have the cheapest final build in the game (bar supports) when they also scale the hardest? Just madness...

  • Paper towers.

I just feel no joy in playing the game anymore so I guess it's time for me to move on... Pity, league brought me a lot of fun times in the past.

66 Comments

Häxel1/16/2018, 2:11:45 AM14 votes

You say new season should be exiting with large changes tot he game and experimenting new things, but at the same time you miss the old runes that existed already more as 7 years? 7 Years you had time to probably test every possible rune combination. But after all every Adc page was probably nearly the same. Other pages didn't had much variety too. I can see that some choices went away but on the other side it's not like the loose of critdaamge, less % deathtime or other runes would be a big loose. Also considerung how riot made extra over 80% of old runes weaker as the standard runes to control the system. Yea you can only chosoe 6 runes for a game now, but rather than that there are realy diffrent playstyles you can play: Grasp or klepto gangplank, phase rush or dark harvest Nasus, Comet ashe, Unsealed spellbook sivir,e tc. And away fro keystonerunes there are larger choices as well. Comparing it to the old system there was like nearly no case there you didn't choose armor or healthseals. And every Mage got Magic Damage Dealer got Magicpenreds. That was not real diversity.

To all other points: It's not that they already got adjusted or still can be adjusted. Maybe you are less exited for the game cause you already played that game since fckn season 1. Otherwise your whole points could also be seen as "large new changes". If you say games are shorter, well than this is something diffrent as prevoius seasons (even if games in reality aren't shorter, it is jsut the laning phase that is shorter and riot tries to make laning phase longer again).

thaBeast1/15/2018, 11:30:48 PM9 votes

ikhyf the league system is changing to quick and not in a positive way i really miss playing for fun but now the community is overly competitive as a majority

Anatera1/16/2018, 12:01:50 AM8 votes

Don't worry. Apparently, according to a vocal minority, you're not supposed to have fun.

WolfChases1/16/2018, 5:08:47 PM7 votes

Riot should just implement a new feature.

-Once you lose the first turret you can surrend. You don't have to wait 15 or 20 minutes tho.

HeyBigGuyHeyBudd1/16/2018, 5:01:55 AM6 votes

Been playing since 2010 and I share that same sentiment.

WiegrafOfValor1/17/2018, 6:01:42 AM4 votes

Sadly the only thing you'll get from this post are casual adc mains that play the game for less than a year telling you to quit your favorite game because they are having too much fun.

I'm on the same boat as you, bro.

AninLegions7771/16/2018, 12:28:48 PM3 votes

You forgot heals/shields overtuned but go on.

Yalathanil1/16/2018, 12:38:51 AM3 votes

If you feel you aren't interested in League... LEAVE! You and all of the other grumblers on the board who complain about how the game has changed and isn't as good as it used to be should move on. I started playing at the end of season 6, and from my experiences this game is excellent. The old rune system was simply a way to try and let champions be viable in other roles by giving them stat boosts. This didn't help as the meta would always be the meta. I enjoy the new rune system far more than the old, as I find I often have to weigh the benefits of secondary runes with each other, along with the utility aspect of some runes. If you feel so strongly about the state of league and how "bad" it currently is then please go away.

Total Atrophy1/16/2018, 2:31:13 PM2 votes

What we really need are lethality buffs :)

AfterTheFall1/16/2018, 12:44:58 PM2 votes

Agreed. Im also a long time player (started mid season 3) and this game doesnt even come close to resembling the league of legends i know

Unker1391/16/2018, 4:01:31 AM2 votes

This will be my first full season and I am excited. My 9 year old son just finished placements at S4 and is thrilled. (He knows it resets tomorrow but he wanted to see where he would get placed)

I have been over 30 but didn't have 20 champions but just filled my roster so we can play some duos. I don't expect to place high but I am looking forward to seeing how far I can go.

Meteor Driz1/17/2018, 10:01:03 AM1 votes

lol dude its so bad, i quit for a while and just came back. im literally laughing at it - its unbelievable how they have ruined it. i dont think there is any coming back from this.

Pika Fox1/16/2018, 6:10:57 PM1 votes

Having played since Xin release, i think this is the best season yet.

Runes being gone is far better. They cost too much IP, you needed them to play the game but also needed champions, and if you had anything but t3 runes you were gimp and only hurting your team because how dare you not have all the IP for runes! Not to mention you most likely spent all your IP on crit runes/ crit damage runes because were a noob and hey it sounds good (pretty much what i did)

Games have been getting shorter over the years. Partly due to player skill increasing.

Imo there arent too many overtuned runes, just too many runes that arent good enough (looking at you glacial)

This ones a legitimate complaint.

You arent gunna get 1shot by assassins unless youre an ADC, and if you are you dont get to complain much because if you build 0 defenses youre supposed to get 1shot, and if you build a defensive item on an ADC that doesnt generate gold or isnt GA, youre wasing a damage item slot. ADCs arent picked for teamfights, theyre picked to kill towers and baron. Your goal is to stay alive to accomplish those tasks. Any damage you can do in a teamfight is just bonus.

ADC items really arent cheap, and it also doesnt matter much how expensive ADC items are, because it will always be the most optimal play to give ADCs more farm. Increasing their item cost just means theyll farm other income sources that others need to kill towers/baron faster.

Unless the ADC is going some kind of offensive caster, you arent going to get one shot by an ADC.

Towers are always paper when a fed ADC attacks them. Thats literally their only job and why they exist.

Captainn Ginyu1/17/2018, 3:40:59 AM1 votes

i do love the people who would rather league stay in the shitter instead of being some what more balanced than it is now

sad

Mizaya1/17/2018, 3:50:43 AM1 votes

The game is still fun for playing with friends / climbing ranked. Most people are probably going to lose interest eventually... I think the first big break I took was s5 and by then I had already lost interest in playing just to play.

Bewitching Zoe1/17/2018, 4:52:50 AM1 votes

This game is a crappy version of heroes of the storm now.

Pandemic Punch1/17/2018, 6:03:03 AM1 votes

Been playing since season 2. This is the most fun I have ever had with League.

Lleajy1/17/2018, 6:46:55 AM1 votes

Just do like me and quit, they stopped caring for the less younger community and moved on to appeal to the kids.