Why Riot does a bad job (8.11 edition)

Ayanami3rd·6/1/2018, 3:25:29 PM·5 votes·1,679 views

Some time ago, I made a longer post about what in my opinion is the reason why Riot sucks at doing their job. Now, with 8,11 arriving, it's like they wanted to confirm my point. And though I don't care about the game any more, I just wanted to share my opinion on 8.11 in case anyone cares :) So here goes:

General champion changes:

  • Pyke: I have no personal experience with Pyke (don't play the game anymore), but a Support with an Execute Ultimate sounds like a questionable design. Just sayin'.
  • Graves & Kha: Stil ridiculously snowballing. Rakan: We sold the Valentine's skin, so let's put Rakan into peasant tier.
  • Yi: Buffing a champion with a design complexity as flat as Jinx is never a good idea. The snowball is strong in this change, too.

ADC changes:

  • Since there are severe snowballing issues in the game, let's give ADCs less safety early on, so the fiesta grows even larger!" Screw you, Riot. No seriously, I have no polite words for this.

AD item changes:

  • Take away crit and put emphasis on lifesteal and "hybrid ADCs" like Ezreal and Lucian? Well, we sold the Valentine's skin for Xayah, so let's put her and the rest of the crit-dependent ADCs to the trash. For. No. Fucking. Reason.
  • Let's give assassins and trash design champions like Yaso the tools to "outplay" even more by OP itemization.
  • Let's also increase the prices for the majority of items, so the snowball is even stronger. Rich people shitting on poor people that made 1-2 mistakes more in lane. Is there something like a hidden political message behind this?
  • Nerfing Fleet Footwork: Again, bye bye, "classic" ADCs.
  • Deleting Ultimate Hat: Because? Nobody knows for sure. There is this new ultimate CDR rune which is located in a different tree and therefore absolutely no replacement.

Turret Changes:

  • Again, Riot, screw you. Since pre-season the playerbase is begging you to stop the snowball and BUFF turrets. There were DOZENS of threads in this forum, partially with really interesting ideas of accomplishing this. Instead, you just drop down your pants and shit on our opinion. So again, suck my middle finger.
  • Seriously Riot, at least go all the way and make all towers of the team with the gold deficit commit suicide at minute 15.

Nashor Changes:

  • Unwanted and unnecessary. Also, it helps snowballing, because Baron is now even easier to take.

Summary: Your average game lasted about 20 mins before. Now, you will experience even shorter games. Also, as before, the game fundamentally changed, so you have to re-learn a lot of stuff. And again with 8.12. And again. And again.

Decide for yourself if that is fun. I took a break from League, and reading these notes help me fight my addiction and stay away.

The Diana skin looks nice though. Maybe Riot should just transition into an art/design company (not game design for sure).

3 Comments

Madsin256/1/2018, 4:00:13 PM2 votes

Don't worry dood melees with get atmas and spear of shitoja soon that will solve all our problems!!!

RekSai CoffeeCo6/1/2018, 5:15:27 PM1 votes

{quoted}

  • Yi: Buffing a champion with a design complexity as flat as Jinx is never a good idea. The snowball is strong in this change, too.

  • Deleting Ultimate Hat: Because? Nobody knows for sure. There is this new ultimate CDR rune which is located in a different tree and therefore absolutely no replacement.

Turret Changes:

  • Again, Riot, screw you. Since pre-season the playerbase is begging you to stop the snowball and BUFF turrets. There were DOZENS of threads in this forum, partially with really interesting ideas of accomplishing this. Instead, you just drop down your pants and shit on our opinion. So again, suck my middle finger.
  • Seriously Riot, at least go all the way and make all towers of the team with the gold deficit commit suicide at minute 15.

Nashor Changes:

  • Unwanted and unnecessary. Also, it helps snowballing, because Baron is now even easier to take.
  1. Don't talk about Ekko girlfriend he will get mad.

  2. Agree on ultimate hat (haven't tested hunter out yet but if it requires a secondary rune to use that is a bad slope to start to take)

  3. Turrets need health and more of it and damage like an aoe as well as other stuff.

  4. Pre nerfed Nashor wasn't strong enough as is.

theawesomecrispy6/10/2018, 7:06:07 AM1 votes

Yeah I really don't like this patch, the changes to essence reaver and infinity edge really suck. The ways i used to build crit champs has completely changed and I don't like it at all. I agree with most your points and wish they would revert it. (sadly they probably won't ever change it back)