I have an amazing Idea for League! Change it back!
I took a short hiatus from the game, for personal reasons. I was keeping up with changes and reworks, got all hyped about the keystones and mastery changes, seen some new items, as always some questionable some sounding fantastic, and a handful that can easily be abused. Now, as I come back to the game, to witness these changes first hand. I watch a lucian 3 shot a tank in lane with a basic combo, I watch 1000 damage pop up all over the place midgame, I see lightning storms dropping all over people. As cool as this all sounds, it was the worst experience of league in my life, and thats pretty bad seeing as this dated back to when i was level 14 in season 2 playing with my level 30 friends and realizing how far behind I really was, all the way up to when I was platinum 1 for ages and only getting +1 lp per win and -5 per loss, slowly grinding up. This was bad in a far different way, it feels as it the very "bones" of league have been corrupted and brittled. It doesn't feel like a strategic battle with planning and precision. The only part of it that remains the same is "reaction time" cause if you don't press your 3 button combo to let off your thunderlords decree first, you might as well just take a bio break. When 80% of the league population runs one main keystone, and everyones builds are filled with burst and its just a quickdraw, it doesnt feel like league, this feels like Call of duty, when whoever sees who first wins. I think League needs to look back to it's roots, the challenging yet deceptively simple playstyle. Now its simple but deceptively challenging. Yes at a pro level I'm sure they feel like it hasnt changed much, due to the fact that they HAVE to adapt, this is their livelihood. But to someone like me, whos kept up with, climbed the ranks in, mained every role at least once, and felt the true RUSH of the game, I feel let down. At the end of the day the teams just say "You dont want to adapt", and the truth is, I DON'T, not to this sort of cheesey rush-burst-findfirst- playstyle. You shouldn't be rewarded for charging in as a squishy, I seen them charge in and kill 3 of us before we could even respond, not excessively fed or anything. End rant, this isn't the League I know, and I'm choosing to stay a casual now, instead of trying to adapt to a dead game. Welcome to Season 1 of "faceroll first and they die".