@Riot: You are forgetting this is a game

Gorzke·1/11/2015, 3:18:49 PM·3 votes·692 views

Since season 4 begun, all your balance changes were aimed to make the game more balanced at the highest levels, but the pre-Season 5 changes made the game more annoying to play.

Jungle Changes: You made them so it is hard now. But you made it so hard that the average jungler has to choose between clearing it or ganking, making that either a laner goes behind because you couldn't gank them, or you getting behind because after a not finished gank you got no gold or experience.

Mana Regen: Again, to the average player playing mana champion is more frustating than before. It makes, however, both mana-using mage match-ups a MUCH MORE interesting, but there are too many offenders out there: Akali Katarina Vladimir Yasuo Zed . Playing again those champions with a mana mage isn't fun, and you feel punished for playing them.

Turret balance: They are much, much weaker. But there are two offenders: Inner-towers and Inhibitor-towers. The first one makes DoT champions useless in siege compositions, while the second ones dont survive a 10 second sliptpush. That is no fun anymore.

Promotions: Althought old, they are really infuriating. Because either you have luck, or you don't. In the series to S3 to S2, after 13 of them, I got an afk or troll in either team in EVERY GAME. Those are 39 games. And there is also the bad-luck strike after upgrading, making a lot of good work go to the trash bin.

Some balance changes: Specially Olafing a champion. I can understand you don't want them to see competitive play again, but making a champion thrash-tier and Very-High Risk Very-Low Reward isn't an option to average players and destroys the fun of the champion.

My thoughts.

8 Comments

Hrothgar the red1/11/2015, 3:58:30 PM4 votes

The fact that riot changes there game based on the top .0001 player base is slowly pushing this game into the ground for me but meh nothing lasts forever

SEKAI1/11/2015, 3:27:33 PM2 votes

While I agree jungle camps are much harder to clear due to some buff ups and the pot reductions, which I would like to see some lubricant being applied to the rough jungle opening stages.

That being said I sorta like the new jg items, it's supposedly no longer a choice between

  1. Gank lanes or be behind, or
  2. Farm jungle and pray/prey

There are gank style, counter jungle (stealing), dueling and creep mowing (farming). And different enchantments to suit your specific champion offensive needs.

As far as ideas go, I like the new direction of the jungle development, but I do feel the early jungle has some smoothing to do.

EDIT: I originally thought split pushing took a big hit as well but really it doesn't appear to affect all that much in practice as far as what I have seen that is.

EDIT2: I do hate that top lane is officially a 1v1 island now, something has to be done to balance out the difference in lane importance, all lanes should be equal to appeal different strategies. Or at least make 2 man top lane at least possible again.

asktiks1/11/2015, 4:24:14 PM2 votes

agree with most if not all here...

I will leave this for Riot here...

This is the exact same reason Wow began its slow inevitable decline wich eventually forced them to make it casual lalaland just to keep enough people to support the massive upkeep the game required at that point...most of us vanilla players left because blizzard started catering solely to the top raiders and no one without hours on end to farm for consumables and a fifteen man roster of decked out people could complete anything past intro endgame

your LCSBiGPLAYS focus is pissing and driving away a lot of your fanbase, I know you probably don't give a shit until your bottom line starts hurting but it will if you keep this direction, its a game , not an Esport for 99 percent of us, start treating it like your esport baby and well go somehere else where we don't feel its a job just to be able to effectively play the game weve played for so long...

I didn't use to have to worry about a champ not working on the current meta when I started playing , all champs could be made to work..now you kneecap champs and leave others beyond broken because of LCSBIGPLAYS ...we aint stupid , and were begging to realize where you guys are heading...and we don't like it..

Devious Anarchy1/11/2015, 8:56:03 PM1 votes

i like new jungle, i do feel the game need a broader array of focus then where its at.