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@Meddler Your season sucks. I can help you fix it.

hashinshin·4/30/2016, 4:50:27 PM·88 votes·4,840 views

The last time these boards mattered was never. They suck. That's just a blunt truth. This is just reddit with maybe 1/5 the audience and no Riot attention. The last time anyone cared about leagueoflegends.com was when I had my post with GC like 3 RAINBOW years ago in the pre-board era. I, like most sane people, ditched once it become clear that Riot was trying to shut down negative communication. Unfortunately that seems to have backfired most spectacularly. Much like IT workers I'm never appreciated when things are working, and when shit hits the fan I'm supposed to be there. I wasn't. So really this entire bullshit meta is on me.

I have replaced every instance of the word "fuck" with "RAINBOW" because I think the boards are heavily moderated now. You know, for all the nobody that visit.

WHEN THE WORLD NEEDED ME MOST I DISAPPEARED. I'M BACK. You won't listen but I'm here anyway.

Now normally I'd have to make my posts ragey to get attention to them and so they wouldn't be ignored, but in this case RAINBOW your stupid meta. RAINBOW your decisions in S5 and S6, RAINBOW your inability to fix anything, and RAINBOW the fact that it has taken you this long to start to try to fix this shit.

Lets begin with tanks. RAINBOW tanks. Nobody has fun playing tanks, and nobody has fun playing against tanks. This isn't S4 tanks where they do damage and tank a lot, this isn't S3 tanks where they soak up damage. This isn't S2 tanks where nobody cares cause tanks suck. "Tanks" are pretty much a new concept to S5 and S6. Shyvana/Mundo S4 "tanks" were actually just bruisers. You know what's awesome about bruisers? They don't CC you for 5 years, building CDR just to CC you longer. They have to build damage to remain relevant (or in Mundo's case hurt himself, and therefore be far less tanky than a tank.) Most importantly, bruisers aren't Maokai. RAINBOW Maokai. Stop pushing Maokai he's a bullshit champion with bullshit abilities that makes the game worse for everyone.

RAINBOW tanks. Bring back bruisers. Bruisers kept us safe from tanks, now tanks are killing bruisers. I'll tell you WHY though:

  • Sunfire is a stupid generalist item that should never be more powerful than specialized items.
  • IBG is way too god damn powerful with it's slow field that slows me from my house all the way from runeterra.
  • Both these items are too RAINBOW cheap and are completed before anyone has time to even respond to them. Their stats aren't even out of line, 6 item tanks are not OP, they're just completed too damn quick.
  • WHY IN RAINBOW NAME WAS THORNMAIL CHANGED TO AN ANTI-BRUISER ITEM? WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA? WHO THOUGHT TANKS BEATING BRUISERS WAS A GOOD IDEA? Jesus christ Riot.

Change thornmail back to being an anti-ADC item. Stop tanks from AFKing and killing bruisers because bruisers murder themselves on the thornmail damage return. Increase the cost of sunfire and IBG. I mean sweet jesus in S1 it took 3 months for Riot to respond to the sunfire meta and that was considered obscene. THIS HAS BEEN ALL OF S6. And you know what? It feels like TWO seasons because tanks ARE JUST THAT UNFUN.

Ekko: Stop being idiots and nerf his mobility. Kassadin doesn't build tank because if he presses R too much it takes twelve billion mana and he can't do it anymore. Ekko doesn't have that concept. He's too RAINBOW mobile. He always hits his combo and then escapes, and you can't do jack shit to stop it. Bruisers can never lock him down to actually hurt him, and if you ever actually land damage he just Rs for a massive RAINBOW nuke+heal and you die. His passive is an insult to god because you did something that even god himself would never dare do. And dear god if you're an ADC you now know what it's like to play against Kalista as a melee champion. EXCEPT JACKED UP TO 11 CAUSE HE'S A LITTLE SHIT.

Maokai: Remove him from the game or halve his damage. How stubborn do you guys have to be to continue to allow the existence of a lane bully tank that has a 2 second invulnerable frame root that isn't even on a skill shot? 2 second hard CC root, 0.5 second AoE knockback on a 5 second CD Q. 20% damage mitigation that you have no counterplay against that also does a huge nuke back to you. And then his passive heals him as he continues to keep using W and Q to prevent any sort of good focus fire on him. Just stop Riot. He's dumb as RAINBOW to play literally just pressing W and Q repeatedly until you win the team fight, and he's dumb as RAINBOW to play against just pressing W and Q until you lose the team fight CAUSE HE HAS NO COUNTERPLAY.

Rageblade: YOU'RE NERFING RAGEBLADE? WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? ARE YOU JUST SO OUT OF THE LOOP THAT YOU THINK PEOPLE ARE BUILDING THIS? We're in a tank + ADC meta and your response IS TO NERF RAINBOW BRUISERS? After 6 years of nerfing bruisers have you guys seriously never learned to do anything other than nerf bruisers? Yes I'm sure nerfing Rageblade is going to stop the tank+ADC meta. OH WAIT, you're actually buffing it on ADCs and nerfing it on melee. Cause you know, melee that build damage are so RAINBOW meta right now. And I'm sure Kog won't be a balance problem for the fifteenth time. No THIS time you're going to tune him properly. THIS time it's going to work.

Ryze: Stop RAINBOW reworking Ryze and rework Yorick you biased as RAINBOW developers. This is like a meme come to life at this point. I don't even have anything to say because the joke is just there. The joke is become reality.

Stop being stupid about everything. YES OBVIOUSLY the champions you nerfed cause of Sated Devourer are going to be too weak after you remove Sated Devourer. You don't need data to show that. YES OBVIOUSLY nerfing rageblade when bruisers are at an all time low will seriously impact their ability to even be played ironically. Yes when you nerf every single tank item EXCEPT sunfire then sunfire will be the chosen item. Yes when you nerf every mobility item obtainable Olaf will have a plummeting winrate. This is your job for chrissake.

STOP REWORKING CHAMPIONS YOU KNOW YOU WILL OBLITERATE LATER. Cancel the Ryze rework, massively nerf him, and forget about him until you do about 50 other reworks. Do the same thing to Nidalee. Remember when you did that to yorick FOUR YEARS AGO? Remember when you jacked the RAINBOW out of Jax's base stats TWO YEARS AGO and he has never recovered (oh wait, he sorta did with rageblade BUT GOOD THING WE'RE NERFING THAT!) How many juggernauts are viable right now? RAINBOW ZERO. Oh what's that, you wasted time reworking Skarner without bothering to touch his ultimate even though you know god damn well his ult will make him OP at low ELO? Wait what's that, YOU BUFFED HIS ULTIMATE? RAINBOW HELL RIOT.

Phantom Dancer is stupid. Graves running around with 12% movespeed and 12% damage reduction just makes him a ranged-kite-bruiser. Say that out loud and try not to vomit. Oh wait, with warlords he's a ranged-kite-bruiser-drain tank OH GOD I CAN'T HOLD IN MY PUKE.

Give me back my yellow ward upgrade so I can properly ward for my split push. RAINBOW.

Buff ghost if you're going to remove distortion, since you balanced ghost around distortion. Am I getting paid for this?

Buff BotRK and BC on at least melee champions so they have some viable options on how to play against tanks SINCE THEY ALL JUST GET THORNMAIL ANYWAY.

STOP CHANGING EVERY RAINBOW ITEM IN TO AN ADC ITEM! You pushed BotRK REALLY RAINBOW HARD for ADCs then nerfed it hard cause every ADC was building it. WELL GEE, I wonder if on-hits are stronger on ranged champ- yup I just got hit in the face with a frying pan because that's too stupid to even ask. We figured this out 12 years ago and you guys are STILL surprised when on-hit items are stronger on ranged champions. It's like every time you guys do on-hits it's like "WHAT ITS STRONGER ON RANGED CHAMPIONS? HOW COULD WE HAVE KNOWN!"

AND STOP PRETENDING THAT FORCING RANGED CHAMPIONS TOP IS EVER FUN. Fighting ranged top laners will never be fun. NEVER. Stop forcing it. Top lane is the 1v1 lane where two many men fight each other. NOT BITCH ASS LISSANDRA SPAMS Q ALL DAY UNTIL YOU SHOOT YOURSELF.

Give bruisers their itemization back. Make Maw a bruiser item again. Make Sterakk's a bruiser item again. Stop changing rageblade in to an ADC item. Make BotRK in to a bruiser item again. I mean sweet jesus the only bruiser items right now are Titanic and Rageblade, you're making rageblade an ADC item and you overnerfed Titanic. What do you even want bruisers to build? Frozen Mallet? Cause you guys nerfed that back in S3 if you forgot.

Give Titanic Hydra a buff, are you guys just RAINBOW with me at this point? You remove FIFTEEN DAMAGE and you're like "oh gee willickers it seems everyone is playing a tank now! How entirely unexpected!" Don't people pay you to know this stuff? You nerf BotRK, BC, Titanic, you make rageblade the only viable option for bruisers even though it sandbags your entire laning phase and you can't possible comprehend why everyone swapped to tanks?

Go in to the LoL client and sort champions by Role. You notice how the fighter role is blatantly the biggest? You notice how fighters are shit right now? You might begin to understand my frustation!

77 Comments

Ralanr4/30/2016, 4:53:50 PM15 votes

The rainbow thing wasn't funny. It got annoying really fast for fucks sake.

Sermo4/30/2016, 5:00:37 PM12 votes

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Gentzer4/30/2016, 7:47:48 PM11 votes

Um...I like playing tanks.

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OH GOD PLEASE DONT KILL ME

Gregor Gysi4/30/2016, 8:15:17 PM7 votes

Haha it's great. If there is one known streamer whose personality fits to the QQy personality the boards have then it's hashinshin.

Chuck Charles4/30/2016, 10:41:16 PM7 votes

The funniest thing about this post is it's almost the same as every other salty bronze post on here.

But it's hashinshin.

This post is proof that salt never stops as you climb the ladder.

Now that said, this meta does suck but they ARE trying to fix it. Have you even read the PBE lately? They are buffing black cleaver, nerfing sun fire cape to be in line with randuins and dead mans plate. Deaths dance got buffed this season and is actually decent on bruisers. High Elo rivens in Korea build it every game. Bruisers suck right now but they riot is slowly trying to fix that.

You and everyone else are just impatient. They do not want to do a knee jerk response to balance. That's how you get bullshit op champions or items. Sun fire in its current state is actually because people were claiming "sun fire costs too much for when I can just get dead mans". People for the most part do not know what they are talking about. Sure, you are well versed in this game. But that doesn't mean you are going to be spot on when it comes to balance.

The balance team mostly does a good job of balancing to be honest. The main gripe people have is it takes AWHILE to fix an overbuff. Graves is starting to finally get close to being balanced. But when he is it will be worth it because he won't be in the dumpster either. Ekko is still broken, but give it another patch or two and I'm sure he will be balanced. Fiora was a broken piece of shit for most of the season and now she's what she always should've been: a late game beast. And not THE late game beast like she was.

Tldr= while your complaints are justified, give riot some time, they simply take so long to fix things because they do not want to dumpster champions and items

Critmaster Garen4/30/2016, 6:42:14 PM7 votes

well. i definitely agree with some points. the idea of graves a sa ranged, mobile bruiser is stupid.

either his dash has to go, or his e passive shouldnt stack. a 30 armor/mr steroid is already more than most actual melee bruisers get. being able to stack that to become better than rammus w is insane.

also, they need to stop trying to balance bruiser items on ranged champs and nerfing these items on bruisers as a result. item 3053 was never too powerful on the champions it was intended for. even before the 100 health nerf the item was core on all juggs (as intended), but neither of them was too strong as a result.

they really just nerfed the item because of graves, other adc, and assassins who picked it up. make it a melee item already and give the shield passive a health threshold like warmogs.

item 3748 was nerfed because of bruiser Fiora and for no other reason.

they also keep removing health on every single defensive item with the attitude "health stackers wont miss 100 health less on one of their items". except, that health stackers are already missing a good 300 to 500 health due to item nerfs and masteries compared to the start of the season.

veteran scars alone lsot 120 health. why they ever wanted to make the mastery more attractive to adc and other squshies escapes my comprehension.

AHeroNamedHawke5/1/2016, 7:58:01 AM6 votes

I missed you hashbrown

EcchiOtakuTM4/30/2016, 10:50:12 PM5 votes

Nobody has fun playing tanks? Where da hell did you get this lie? I have fun facing tanks on bruiser/melee carries and using tanks are really fun.

They're nerfing tank items however I agree thornmail should be returned to an anti-adc item having it with an armor scaling hurts non-adcs than adcs it's hard to explain. It might be that since it returns less AA damage but has an armor scaling those who deal less AA damage take a lot more in return? I guess?

Ekko isn't really so much mobile but more of a too much forgiveness, type of thing. An assassin who has heavily influencing CC waas something riot even said they didn't like (hence most cc removal from assassins like the famous silence removals or stun eve going bye bye) But then they release ekko a champ with a large AoE stun, perma-slows(I consider perma-slows hard cc) and an undo button. I'm fine with his kit but his CC needs to get reworked majorily they should remove his passive's slow and his stun dome's slow but allow his stun field to reveal that area from the start of the cast he just needs a lot of cc removal so he can actually be an assassin not some high ratio/base damage bruiser(Hence why I want diana to get a ratio gutting and compensation buffs somewhere) Point being assassins should NEVER have this much CC and it was a bad idea by riot to do so even AFTER they said they disliked the idea themselves.

Maokai is actually pretty funny, he only received a buff to sapling duration along with normal melee MR and he came back I honestly didn't expect it. IMO the only nerf maokai needs is returning his MR back to a ranged status since his passive is insane when a mage is near anyways.

Rageblade's rework is justified, only thing they're probably gonna do is wait a week or 2 after releaase and lower the price but the rageblade change is good.

Ryze needs the rework but I agree they shoulda waited till after yorick ffs, yorick hasn't even been good for so long and they choose to push him back for ryze -_- I was hype to see if they took a few ideas from my yorick rework too meh.

I'm also against a lot of items being changed where it felt more of an adc item but meh have to actually look at said items specifically to actually comment.

Uh there's nothing wrong with ranged champs top as long as they're nerfed when becoming problematic imo like the current Kayle/Karma all other ranged champs in top are playable vs if you lane properly and suggest jungle help while if you get no jungle help just focus more on playing safe until you can get a roam off.

Well bruisers still synergize with maw so I don't see an issue there just wish lifegrip was removed to stop adcs from building it but the incoming maw nerf should fix it. Rageblade was an hybrid item not a bruiser item so the change is well welcomed. Botrk has never been a bruiser item shifted towards adcs but just heavily nerfed to be a shadow of it's former self so asking for it to be returned isn't correct although I wish the range was reduced back to 450 so ADCs would have to enter a unsafe range to use it or only able to use the active when self-peeling like before the range buff it received. Frozen mallet could see a buff to apply on any physical damage then it'd see more play then it can be nerfed in amount for non-AA damage that's it.

Well they did return tiamat so it's just returned to rush tiamat then continue building, don't see an issue with that. As for titanic they should have lowered it's HP but increase it's HP ratio that way those who build it alone wouldn't have so much HP from it alone along with the passive but have to invest into HP to actually get it's passive to work, if that makes sense.

Overall I'm so-so on your views but I do agree that a lot of changes need to be made

Irelia Bot4/30/2016, 8:04:33 PM5 votes

We don't even have half decent items that counter things like sunfire these days. We have not had a good stand along counter item to sunfire since Season 2 wit's end which by all means countered rushing the most passive damage item in the dame of Sunfire cape.

Nice going riot in distressing a good item by giving it a bad passive from a bad item that got removed for only ever being bough by teemo. Now only all of 2 champs get wit's end more then 10% of the time and neither of them get it even 50% of the time.

And Give me back season 2 or 4 Trinity (will accept either since both were really good, jsut depends on if you want more damage or more MS and slightly higher tankyness). The lose of 15% attack speed, 30 AP and 5 AD is not a good trade for 10% Crit chance which for a champ who relies a lot on an ability that can on hit but not crit is a major RAINBOW you and 10% CDR which can be found on other items easily it is not in a better place expecially since only Corki seems to be benifiting from the changes.

Grasp of the undying needs to die. It is literally making tanks unable to die in lane even when they play like idiots.

Windows OS4/30/2016, 10:57:32 PM4 votes

Quality shitpost, my dude

SaltyKracka5/1/2016, 5:23:05 AM4 votes

tl;dr

CAN'T CRASH THE HASH

MAKE JAX OP AGAIN

seriously though, hash implying that his opinions were ever important reeks of narcissism.

Hellioning4/30/2016, 7:56:08 PM4 votes

'Really? You're starting out with saying the game sucks? That's not gonna get Riot to respond...'

'Oh. It's hashinshin. Nevermind.'

Dengeden5/1/2016, 6:38:00 AM4 votes

Rageblade in its current form and the way you want fighters to work are entirely analogous to how the annoying IBG SFC tanks are now. (In other words:) Herp derp AoE waveclear and hard to kill DPS as well as stickiness.

To top that off, fighters can flex between offensive and defensive items, unsurprising that their core items are sparse and situational.

Some of your eh, request are blatantly biased. You want wards for your splitpush? Buy a pink and swap blue trinket. You want Thornmail to turn back into the must-buy item that it was on tanks? No? I hope not. BoRK was a Devourer jungle item more than it was a Kalista|Vayne item.

Zonkman5/1/2016, 3:03:43 AM4 votes

Tl;dr Rainbows [slayer-pantheon-rainbows]

hotarse5/1/2016, 3:58:03 AM3 votes

personally I like tanks, I enjoy playing with them and against them. i also like bruisers as long as they aren't allowed to become as tanky as tanks while dishing out more damage and being more mobile. i don't like assassins very much, nor tank versions of assassins such as tank ekko, tank yi, and tank fiora. those need to get the rainbow out of this game.

genya034/30/2016, 8:15:00 PM3 votes

Riot should just remove Ekko item 1403 item 3124 , really.

I got a question for you, @hash. What do you think of Evelynn overall nerfs? Why or why not?

Let me start off by saying: Riot is blind.

Ryze. I don't know how much cocaine Riot has been given, but Ryze reworked RAINBOWED him over a lot. Yes, when his first reworked came he was broken to sh@#, but the fact that he got a reworked of him being "outdated," Riot decided to make his kit much more difficult to use. Ryze, right now, is sitting at a 49% winrate and being played 4% of the time (link: http://champion.gg/champion/Ryze). I think the now Ryze is balanced, but just making him more difficult than what he used to be. Sure, he needed a rework on skills, but that doesn't change the fact his overall kit is bad. Veigar, on the other hand, got the similar reworked which RAINBOWED the sh@# out of him. What I didn't understand about Ryze rework was his passive changed to Charges and his Ultimate (which is his R ability).

Ekko. Just remove him.

Maokai. Definitely needs to look over. He's way too powerful right now. He's sitting at a 51% winrate and 11% playrate (link: http://champion.gg/champion/Maokai).

item 1403. It definitely needs to get huge nerf or removed from the game, period. This item is way too godlike at the moment. Even after it's nerfs, it's still one of the most broken pieces of sh@# for auto/basic champions. Thank you for Feral Flare 2.0, Riot. You've done a amazing job RAINBOWING the sh@# out of Season 4-6.

item 3124. Either it needs a huge nerf or get removed. ADC's like KogMaw can abuse this item late game and yes it is overpowered. It's cheap too. I'm glad they're putting a 3200 gold on it for the next patch, but please for god sake just nerf its passive.

item 3025. It's being abused by so many champions like Ekko Trundle Ezreal Maokai Udyr. Why not, you know? We can slow them in an area without even having a slow ability. Needs a nerf, even if it procs 100% now.

item 3153 item 3748 item 3071. From what I see, item 3153 really needs a buff. Have you seen any of the Assassins nowadays go for it as first item? Like how Vayne Twitch MasterYi Trundle Tryndamere used to build it first items. Now it's all about item 3025. item 3153 is sh@# now and yes, Riot needs to look over it.

item 3075 is just stupid now. Why did Riot decided it's ok to rework item 3075. From 30% to 15% and made it much cheaper. Yes, tanks can just buy it because it's cheap.

Overall, I don't think it's ok that Riot decided to rework champions just based on how high their winrate is. Top Lane ADC's are the most stupidest sh@# ever. Who the RAINBOW would do this kind of thing to the meta? I understand Jayce, but going against Vayne Quinn Graves are the most annoying sh@# ever. I made a post like this "Are ADC's be able to Top Lane?" and many disagree with me. I understand that we're moving to different game play each year, but that doesn't RAINBOWING I have to deal with such cancerous trades and fights. What will an ADC do Top Lane? Split push, have gold advantage, control over Top Lane, and range. What will a RAINBOWING ADC Top Lane do in terms of teamfights? That's what I asked about people who commented about my post about ADC's being Top Laners. This game... Too many wrong nerfs/buffs. I don't see the point to Riot.

Nobody11114/30/2016, 9:16:46 PM3 votes

this is so different from the reality of the game that i know.... could this be a difference in meta between EUW and NA that I don't get half the problems that you are complaining about?

Neo Metalsonicv25/1/2016, 5:16:37 AM2 votes

Typical Hashinshin post full of rage, I'm surprised he didn't leave a complaint how somehow the new season promotes junglers to camp his lane more!

I do agree though the titanic hydra nerf was unnecesarry since it was the only item that could really bring the same cost effectiveness of items that tanks enjoy. Tanks are in a fine place, the season changes have made their itemization very great though.

The real problem that needs to be addressed is the gigantic cost of pure AP items. With a lot of mids I feel tremendously weaker at all phases of the game than last season.

Hexdrinker is an insanely strong item vs AP. But the truth is that even as bruiser you can just skip on it and get a spirit visage instead because it's too cheap especially in a meta where supports with heals are very strong.

I think bami's or sunfire is fine because it prevents you to really harass effectively and if you want to farm you auto push.

alfavhunter5/1/2016, 5:08:03 AM2 votes

How to nerf ekko

If he dashes and doesn't AA an enemy champion after the dash he gets a longer CD (nerfs escape)

The base value of his shield is heavily nerfed with the scaling buffed to help focus an AP build and not a tanky build (base value of 50/75/100/125/150 shield)

Lastly he can only use his ult of it will hit an enemy champion (similar to Morgana ult) this stops the using it for a get out of jail free card or an instant return to lane, the ult "position timer" is now reduced by 1 second (I think it was 4 seconds it's now 3)

jaymc11305/1/2016, 5:34:23 AM2 votes

{quoted}

We figured this out 12 years ago and you guys are STILL surprised when on-hit items are stronger on ranged champions.

LOL! Another Original Dota player has been found! I thought I was like the only one running around on these boards, man those were the days. WC3 UMS masterrace.

InfiniX4/30/2016, 10:47:50 PM2 votes

nice post, unfortunately your post doesn't mention fixing any fundamental problems, just another meta shift proposal again

Hypes4/30/2016, 8:06:23 PM2 votes

hey hash loved your blogs on reignofgaming why do you never update there anymore?

TheSlogs5/1/2016, 12:47:20 PM2 votes

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to politely disagree with almost 100% of your points that you have given in this post. Especially the points about Maokai and Guinsoos, and I don't even feel the need to explain those. I mean I can understand why you would hate tanks, I used to too, until I realized at the end of season 5 how amazing tank metas are for this game. You are saying we are in a tank meta right now? That is definitely wrong. Look at any game, even at low skill levels, and you will see that we are in an ADC meta. There are usually four ADCs in pro games. The bot lane ADCs for both teams, and then Kindred and Graves in the jungle.

These are just my thoughts. Don't get offended, it's bound to happen that people will disagree.

sh1ngo5/17/2016, 10:41:22 AM1 votes

THIS. Had fun for years (started S2, diamond for years) playing this game until this season, where they IMHO completely ruined everything that was fun about it: worst/most boring meta in history of LoL, most unbalanced state of the game ever, almost all reworks are toxic (to play against) and so are the new champs, no soloQ, the list goes on... Sure they did some fun stuff with the chests and all, great work, but when the game becomes complete bullshit it doesn't even matter anymore. Anyway i gave it some time in the hope they would recover from it, but they didn't. Oh, and i was always the "fill" type and still am (although i prefer top/adc), but nowadays i get support 9/10 which is just too much, i like support but hey, too much is too much. Again, this is my opinion on this season, a lot of people still seem to have a great time playing this game and that's really good for them, but not for me, my 2 cents.

Hybrid5/1/2016, 1:39:31 PM1 votes

BEST THREAD MAN.FULL AGGRED AND SUPPORT.!!!!!!!

Meta Phyton5/1/2016, 6:33:47 PM1 votes

What I understood from that is, an honourable way to play top lane is to place only 2 melee champs there against each other? Ok, sure - makes sense in a way, I suppose.

This is not fun to say, but it is becoming really clear to me why Riot employees rarely come around these parts - if what you say is true.

I'm just human, and I get charged up with dread when I post something publically on Facebook. So, to come around these parts and see ... well, the insane way that this community demands this team of developers' and video game makers' attention ...

... or to see the brutally insensitive and brutally harsh criticism of a work that is their pride and joy ...

... if I were on this team of developers, I would certainly require strong anti-depressants just to bear it all. Today I forget about the multitudes of players who cry that their lives are made so unbearable by some jack-off telling them "you suck, you fed!" and hearken instead to the deafening noise of a community screaming and insulting the people who invented the very game itself that they refuse to enjoy despite its understandable imperfections, which any sane and reasonable person is able to accept in moderateness and adapt into their working strategy of the game.

This sound of brutally harsh criticism toward the video game developers and various staff members of this development crew is much louder now that I pay attention, than what the players have to endure. Yet the players expect a group of regular people of our kind to be, not only the makers of their past-time, which they refuse to enjoy based on its already successful merits ... but also to act as their tribunal, their justice squad, their wish-fulfillers, their counselors, their mediators, their whipping-boys, and more ... all while not only continuing to develop the game and release constant steady updates, but also while having to endure this kind of dreadful, miserable post on a regular basis which demands constant unswerving perfection to each person's individual tastes and perspective.

Do you feel ashamed of yourselves? Do you feel any kind of remorse or shame for how you are treating your fellow human beings? Is it even possible for you?

I wrote my insight about the value of taking a nature stroll to fellow community members, but now finally getting a broader understanding of how this community regards and treats the video game developers who are regular people of our kind, and who are actually the ones to have created the game that various community members appears to so love to brutally, insensitively, and destructively complain about and critisize ... and of course having made up a resentful and juvenile name ("Rito pls") for doing that, as if the video game developers themselves were inhuman, unfeeling robots who do not have lives, families, psyches, mental burdens, emotions, hopes, dreams, and fears ...

I can't find a way to put a bow on this post, because saying it is disturbing does not seem to do it enough justice.

A good portion of you are really miserable and completely brutal, conscienceless monsters of juvenile angst. You are acting like horrible and abusive monsters.

Linna Excel5/1/2016, 10:42:47 PM1 votes

Nobody has fun playing tanks, and nobody has fun playing against tanks.

QFT. It's no fun trying to deal with someone who build 300+ armor and 3000+ hp (with a warmogs of course) who just sits there and dives the carry. If you fall behind as any class you can't put a dent in his armor. If you don't buy a LDR and a BC you can't put a dent in his armor. Your poor support is just trying to delay the guy without being a damage threat and no one on your team is focusing the guy while he dives in and wrecks your backline.

On the other side of things, it's no fun being a meatshield.

I kind of wish riot would put a hard AR and MR cap in (200?).

Shyvana/Mundo S4 "tanks" were actually just bruisers. You know what's awesome about bruisers? They don't CC you for 5 years, building CDR just to CC you longer. They have to build damage to remain relevant (or in Mundo's case hurt himself, and therefore be far less tanky than a tank.) Most importantly, bruisers aren't Maokai. RAINBOW Maokai. Stop pushing Maokai he's a bullshit champion with bullshit abilities that makes the game worse for everyone.

Agree with this as well. Take poppy, right now she deals a lot of damage but doesn't have to build any. I like the fact she can deal damage, but I think it'd be better for the game if she were a bruiser instead of a tank.

Change thornmail back to being an anti-ADC item. Stop tanks from AFKing and killing bruisers because bruisers murder themselves on the thornmail damage return.

That's probably be a good idea. Right now come midgame, your typical tank has about 5,000 armor from his 2 completed items while your ADC isn't able to punch through all that alone until he gets 4 items or so. That means tanks don't really have a counter for a mid game fight and that's hurting the game.

Ekko: Stop being idiots and nerf his mobility.

My biggest problem with tank ekko is his ult. I find that problematic to have on an assassin, but on a tank you can just troll the other team. That said, his E lets him be a little too clingy when combined with the passive.

Phantom Dancer is stupid. Graves running around with 12% movespeed and 12% damage reduction just makes him a ranged-kite-bruiser. Say that out loud and try not to vomit. Oh wait, with warlords he's a ranged-kite-bruiser-drain tank OH GOD I CAN'T HOLD IN MY PUKE.

I actually think the graves rework was the problem.

Fatalitý5/2/2016, 12:12:17 AM1 votes

holy shit somebody finally did it. made a post about EVERYTHING wrong about this season, most posts around the boards were about bits of this but you put it ALL TOGETHER THANK YOU. Please a rioter NEEDS TO LOOK AT THIS. I agree with litterally every single thing you said in this post other than maokai I think mao is fine just needs to have his base damage nerfed a bit. but seriously thank you for taking the time and writing this long of an article about how bad this season is. I know riot is just gonna ignore this post but THANK YOU any ways.

Hot Belly Dancer5/2/2016, 1:27:01 AM1 votes

hey hashinshin, i remember you from gd c: you dont know me, cuz i stalk you hihihihihihihi.

TheOvermind5/1/2016, 9:56:50 AM1 votes

I agree with everything pretty much, clg only managed to beat tsm by banning maokai in all 5 games , because they saw maokai tank 1v4 a triple ad carry comp when tsm beat imt . Like how broken is that no one should survive focus fire from 3 infinity edge adcs for that long !