I'm done. Uninstalled, season 9 just broke me

mark6028·9/5/2019, 2:50:17 AM·150 votes·22,115 views

Call me back once you hard resetted the ladder after you dynamicQ fuck up in s6, this seasons fuck up and the usual buying accounts, duo boosting etc.

The ladder is fucked. Every single game, every single game i played from plat 5 to d2 now has people an entire tier above their league hundreds of games on negative winrate and they just don't drop. They lose and lose and lose and never drop. A few times getting carried inbetween is enough to stay in the elo.

Literal 45% overall winrate players who just don't drop. Then you go into streams see people hard inting and flaming you look up op.gg d5s now in grandmaster and challenger ruining game after game.

Call me back once you changed the gameplay so better players can actually carry games again. Remove turret plating, remove catch up xp, remove or massively lower bounties. Flatten the scale curve of champs. It's insanity how "lategame hypercarries" 1v9 every game at maximum 2 items while champs like panth (which is a great rework i love him but still) auto oneshot every single champ in the game until 15 minutes where becomes more useless than a sack of potatoes.

Change the fuckin jungle already, laners want to actually play your fuckin game do you realize that? I'm so tired of every single game getting decided which jungler decides to play the game. Put them in a fuckin cage don't let them escape jungle with a magical barrier, go back to afk farm jungle I DONT CARE IF PRO PLAY IS BORING NO ONE IS WATCHING IT ANYMORE ANYWAYS without your rewards the numbers would be even more abysmal. All these changes to make pro play more interesting and the opposite is the case but fear not one day it will work i'm sure. Are u really telling me the current jungle is healthier than literally anything before? Before that i could atleast play league of legends because junglers were busy fighting each other over camps. The farming items which names i've forgotten were balanced as well. Above gold most farm junglers lost the game before they even got to finish their 30 stacks the only problem was boring pro play once again and low elo. But according to some peolpe here we should balance around pro play makes the game SO MUCH MORE FUN FOR EVERYONE. Remember when you could actually have vision on your own? Didn't have to rely on four other monkeys to help you with that? Yeah those were the good times were your own skill mattered can't have that thanks to pro play tho. Remember when baron wasn't the only win condition in the game? And you could actually splitpush or fight skirmishes? Yeah can't have that because of pro play. Remember when you could actually play for lategame? Well can't have that because of pro play or they have 50+ mins games again so we just make it that lategame comes at 20 mins 5header. Remember when rengo was the only assassin that point and click oneshotted you and everyone hated it? Can't have that pro play needs to be more exciting no one wants to watch strategic fights and outplays (i'm not talking about 5v5 deathball meta with four tanks and an adc on each side) people want to see Zoe missing E Q and just w ignite auto an adc to death. People want to see qiyana press R and oneshot everyone. Remember when you playing flawless for 15 mins wasn't instantly cancel'd by getting four manned once and donating 1k gold to the enemy team? Say thank you to low elo who didn't understand "snowball" doesn't come from one person 1v9 the game. S9 is the season with the absolute least agency for ANYONE in this game yet the game is more snowbally than ever. Makes you think doesn't it?

NERF ADCS AND MAGES FOR FUCK SAKE and while you are at it NERF SUPPORTS AND GIVE ADCS AGENCY IN RETURN. It's INSANITY how an aftershock support tank on a "low" budget is tankier than any 10/0 poppy like what the fuck man. Botlane is supposed to share resources yet they basically are just two champions in one lane with solo lane resources due to how cheap and overstat support items are. If more people are autofilled SO BE IT. Back in my days i played another role every single game UNTIL i got gud at the game and ensured being firstpick every game because i have the highest MMR AND IT WORKED OUTSIDE OF THE DEPTHS OF BRONZE AND SILVER. You do not balance a competitive game around the whims and cries of bad players see my points about bounties and stuff above. FINALLY WORK ON TOPLANE AND BRUISERS FOR FUCK SAKE. Give them a place in the game it is YOUR BIGGEST CHAMPION CLASS. What is this shit. Yeah once every blue moon you get to play the game and snowball and noone can stop kled charging into fifty people and solo win the game the next four games you fall behind and lose the game because you don't do anything at all ever. Yeah fun gameplay for people playing AS WITH AND AGAINST bruiser. Coming from a die hard bruiser main btw. Bruiser main masterrace. Yet i hate that the only win condition for 99% of all bruisers is to snowball and slam themselves into the enemy. Give us items for lategame give us a way to play from behind THEN you can leave shit like jayce in the game instead of him beating you while also outscaling you while also being a teamfight threat while also being an assassin mage bruiser juggernaut. Especially with how the jungle is nowadays you don't ever get to snowball like ever.

Nerf death timers again for fuck sake. It's been over a year that dying and teleporting back to lane is faster and actually gives an advantage over going for winning the lane and killing your opponent????? IN A PVP GAME A COMPETITVE SUPPOSEDLY SKILL BASED GAME. Don't believe it? Can send you my game against an ignite darius who kinda cheesed me early got firstblood and said "that's why i take ignite it's so op" yeah except i bought, tp back to lane, shove in and i'm now a lvl above him and murder the shit out of him for his stupidity.Why? Because he was forced to stay or lose a double minion wave which lead to him getting killed and losing the waves anyways. Also one of the reasons together with plating why everyone just runs teleport. Maybe we can finally stop holding toplane hostage because of your shitty game design and give toplane impact again by buffing teleport. All these things could be figured out if you actually played your own game one of my secret wet dreams tbh to get designers who play this game actually and engage with players instead of rolling a dice looking at the winrate and decide to nerf or buff shit. Instead of letting random people work on random changes and just implement them for the heck of it with no thoughts about how it effects the game as a whole e.g. turret plating.

Make interesting items again. How? Stop being afraid of item actives which you abandoned because many people play league with only two fingers i'm sorry about them but maybe they shouldn't play a moba then. You restrict yourselves so much by not allowing item actives. Instead of making tanks tank more and let them 1v1 bruisers and everyone else you could give them interesting items with actives to carry teamfights. For example old maokai ult as an item active. Reduces dmg for x seconds in y radius for your teammates. Not saying its a good suggestion or anything just something random that came up but cant be implemented because riot refuses to give more item actives. Create a magical zone that reduces the enemies armor by amount x for y duration. Great you have an AD heavy team and enemy is stacking armor? BUY IT. Once again i'm just saying random stuff that i would find interesting to build and play because i actually loved playing tanks. Back when i played my nautilus toplane with locket and redemption that actually became meta for a time after everyone realised how good it was. It was interesting as a tank to clutch shield your teammates or throw a redemption down. Now my goal is to pop RG run at the adc and press W and hope he dies as maokai. Nautilus is a support now anyways.

While we are at items: STOP THIS ARMS RACE ALREADY. We went from maybe one item that is good for every champion in that class (trinity force and BC being one of the old remnants of those days) to items that just give you everything you ever wanted+CDR on top of it. Not everyone should reach 45% CDR by default heck i think no one should ever reach this amount without heavily investing into it and thus losing out on other stats.

Last but not least: Stop your fuckin bias and favorism towards certain champions. It's really not funny anymore.

Well here is my little ranty wishlist for season 10. I love this game i play it since i'm 16 years old. Now i'm well let's just say older (i'm still 19) 10 years later and it feels so shit to see something you've loved become something you hate. Sounds an awful lot like my Ex. I never thought the day would come i actually cannot fathom playing anymore but it is here i'm broken. It's so shit this game rn, so shit. Even with shitty balance atleast you could play your game and carry and win if you deserved it. Even this is just a coinflip right now so what's the point of playing. We went through so many metas i played bot i played mid i became a top main. I played tanks i played bruisers i played GP i mained ahri or zed and lb but the drastic change of the core gameplay to what it is right now is unbearable for me. Different metas and stuff is all fine but when the core gameplay like legit the gameplay at its core is so unfun and so shit there is just no point in playing.

I hope riot does a 180 but judging from them having no budget (KEKW) for skin development, to eternals to little legends i doubt riot will do anything positive for league anymore.

159 Comments

xelaker9/5/2019, 3:40:06 AM52 votes

Good for you man, find a less awful hobby to enjoy. Also prepare for the butthurt children to spam "bye" and such

General Esdeath 9/5/2019, 8:00:52 AM33 votes

OK but you're gonna miss out on the exclusive Prestige Edition of Candy Cane Ezreal

Tr4shB4NSYST3M9/5/2019, 3:42:19 AM23 votes

Been playing since late season 6 and yeah this is the worst the game has been since ive been playing.

Illabethe9/5/2019, 3:45:14 AM23 votes

Dunno why this is getting downvoted.

My Silver I games tonight ALL had either win traders, or a duo of someone who was situationally high silver, duo'd with a bronze inter or troll.

Seriously. https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Aredethe Ornn Game: Bronze I duo'd with Silver III Sivir who get this: Doesn't play adc and almost EXCLUSIVELY plays Braum. Result: My Plat duo and I couldn't carry it. MF got int fed, I wasted time ganking people who couldn't actually be bothered to use a gank, and Janna ran around the map wildly..... doing..... nothing.

Warwick Game: "Bot" chose Brand into a team with his Morgana and a mid who was going to go Ahri . Turned out "Bot" (Brand) is Bronze II, duo'd with an UNRANKED Morgana, who was statically Provisional'd at Silver II. Morg ints. Brand afks every time you came mid to gank, no matter who you were, and claimed he was out of mana when he was at 40%, as to why he wouldn't walk over two steps. Morgana didn't upgrade her support item from TIER 1 until she had already fed them a 14/1 lead.

Scroll down to the OTHER Warwick game: Syndra literally ran it up mid and 0/14'd and began spamming surrenders. When it was clear my duo and I were not losing that game, she outright quit the game, and in post game, Zed actually tried to defend her walking up mid. She behaved like a pure Win trader the entire game, and the chat context supports that.

https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Illabethe

Nami game (4 down): MF was literally walking into Blitz. Over and over. With a minion wave right there. Every single one of her ults was directly in range of a Blitz pull to signal exactly where she was, so that he/Jhin could kill her. I remember one specific ult: She was near mid, and was CHASING Blitz, who was full HP. He rounded the wall to the right or the mid turret; MF literally hugged the wall, and cast her ult, waiting to be pulled.

Irony of this game: I 1v2'd Kalista and Blitz at level 2 for a double kill as Nami. I literally dominated them. Then I went mid, killed mid too. Came back bot...... mf started inting. Hard. Over and over. To the point where being in range of Kalista for 1 second = death inting. If you bother to look up MF: Every game is 14+ Deaths, int feed fest, yet maintains positive win rates, and 50%. Literally. Every. Single. Game.

Evelynn Game: Last game. Sona literally could be watched running through the entire team of 5 of the opposing team the ENTIRE GAME. She would literally just rotate her keys and walk right through them before dying. 0/13. Other team had a Gold III. If you bother looking up Sona, she literally never gets above 1 kill, always has over 8 deaths, and no assists. AS A SONA. Occasionally pure outright ints.


^ This is what the game is now.

Win Traders. People far out of their elos. Int feeders for some reason or another.

This embarasses me. Game gets out of control so fast that I can't save it. I'm playing some linear champ like Warwick who if I go in to gank a lane, I need them to work with me! Instead I get afk'd on and Nocturne counter-ults, instantly making it 1v2. Try to hard carry an adc as Nami...... get an inting adc who throws any help I gave 100% down the drain.

Some of my OWN scores look really ugly, because I was effectively spending half the game trying to steal a drake, or save teammates who started a fight (or 4 fights in a row), or because the people they fed just escalate into a 1v5 show (like Blitz/Kalista, with double knockups, or the Nocturne)

Sinister Anubis9/5/2019, 2:19:10 PM13 votes

Been here since season 1 and i hate this season the most

Cat on Roids v29/5/2019, 2:11:27 PM9 votes

Pro tipfrom someone who played this a job and made tons of money out of ( for beeing alone without a site behind me ) Quit the game forever. I must have played around 100 games ( 60 arams ) this year and probably since december tbh not just this year and the 40 SR games i've played were with friends and the other 20were so i could hit diamond and maybe try to get rid of my account ( quited at P1 due to matchmaking beeing so funny ).

Everytime i get in game i physically wanna hurt someone especially every time i see a Yummi i alt f4 even tho i play with my friends at a net cafe and they dont even talk back to me they know imma get up and leave on the spot lol. Litterally have like 6 accounts left all have timers cause everytime i try to play SR i ragequit. Tfw i used to be able to hold my lane vs the top 50 challenger players in lane (I.E Jizuke/Wansie/Pridestalker/FizzOnMyjayce and other nerds like them back then)( good ol d2 autofill in challenger games ) and nowadays apparently i cannot deal with golds because they picked a better champion than i did. HILLARIOUS. Delete the game never look back... i wouldnt play even if they gave me 100 bucks to get em into gold from silver 3.

BlesioQ9/5/2019, 1:01:33 PM8 votes

I logged in 1st time in my 10 years of palying league just to upvote tihs post.

DBS Ronovon9/5/2019, 1:09:59 PM7 votes

b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bb--b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b--b BUT I thought giving people a comeback mechanic made the game more competitive, so that if people start out sucking, they can comeback and stomp the skilled players who did well at the start. Isn't it moooooooore interesting to have a match where Aaaaaaaaanything at aaaaaaaanytime can happen?? INSTEAD OF SKILL and winning gets you a win?!

Nope, just get better at randomness and hope for the best, plus watch the trolls controlllll the games, you want to carry, but the game hates you so get lost, right?

I know. get gud. Riot doesn't giva shit man.

Been saying this shit for so long, no one cares enough to make the game fun again and actually competitive.

Imagine a race, you run really far really fast and you're ahead by about 100 meters, then all of the sudden, because you were doing so well, the other runners get to skip ahead and catch up instantly to you, no matter how slow they ran and how fast you ran. But not only did they get something free for sucking, you wasted more energy trying to run harder, and they haven't spent as much energy so they pass you up and win the race, wow cool huh? I think all sports should have comeback mechanics so everyone can randomly win even if they have no skill or talent, just like in league.

ShyImagoghnar9/6/2019, 6:12:22 PM4 votes

ok see u next week

Death by Glamour9/5/2019, 12:39:53 PM4 votes

Just done the same

Tsuko9/5/2019, 8:09:00 AM4 votes

Nah, tencent.

NaughtyWord9/7/2019, 4:31:28 PM3 votes

OPs right, hyper-gank meta is trash, jungle is fundamentally broken.

ApologyAccepted9/5/2019, 7:52:13 AM3 votes

I feel it, I am somehow Silver 2 after taking a year or two off and retiring at Silver V, and I am now like 20-34 and Silver 2?? It's a joke. Back in the Day I would be in bronze 1 at least. What is Rito's problem? I really hope they still match match with real MMR and the other stuff is for show (Like Maybe I am in bronze MMR). If not though, It appears that they have some shaddow elo bonus for playing a bunch of a games that shows up in the form of your status. It shouldn't be this way.

SIayton9/5/2019, 3:45:57 PM3 votes

100% Agree that this is the worst season ever. I think it's absolutely ridiculous they balance the game for competitive play. 99.9999% of players are not LCS level players. Those players play an almost entirely different meta yet the changes designed to affect their games greatly affects the casual experience of league for most players and throws the game way out of wack for us. Do you want your product to be an enjoyable experience for the vast majority of people playing your game on the day to day (which is what drives popularity and engagement) or do you want the competitive players THAT ARE GOING TO PLAY THE GAME ANYWAY to get what they want? Just approaching it from a $$$ perspective, it's actually not smart at all to focus on competitive when it makes the normal gameplay experience of the game dramatically worse.

Also I agree the game is randomly REALLY snowbally yet players have the least agency to carry. It's extremely hard to solo carry a game (something I did regularly in old seasons) but this season it really does feel like a collective snowball and whichever team has the weakest link (or links) loses as opposed to the strong players winning.

Also SUPER agree that jungle needs huge changes. Almost every game is decided by who has the worse jungler. Laning is not nearly as important as it used to be and because scuttle crabs have the junglers in the river fighting constantly and subsequently ganking lanes afterwards, ganks are WAY up and the random skirmishes in river turn the game into coin tossy early fights more than anything. It's absolutely terrible for everyone involved and IMO affects jungle diversity pretty badly at the same time.

Flattening scaling would also be amazing. It feels terrible losing to a champion just because "lol it's late game now so they auto win" or getting destroyed in lane by an ape on some early game champion and then watching them just hit the 20 minute mark and suddenly completely stop doing damage despite being full build (like pantheon).

Just reward individual skill and laning ability again. Shut downs are awful. Why reward players for losing? If you get a lead, it should mean something. Imagine putting in all that work to get ahead through solo kills and then someone getting 3+ kills worth of gold from catching you with their team once. Suddenly the guy you outplayed for the entire game is back in it because of one engagement. That makes no sense.

Also stop reworking every champion for the hell of it when no one wanted it. Looking at you, Aurelion Sol. Literally no one likes the rework, no one wanted it, it didn't do anything they wanted it to do other than make him play like every other mage. But riot just did it to do it.

Smashed Hash9/6/2019, 4:01:39 PM3 votes

I am burnt out on my 2nd season.

Please bring back Nexus Blitz.

Dukues9/6/2019, 5:01:47 PM2 votes

I had to down vote because of the first sentence. People still blaming dynamic queue season 6 blow my mind. literally 4 seasons ago... has nothing to do with the game now. Plus they did a large soft reset in season 7.... so yes... that shit was taken care of years ago.

Riot fucked up at start of season 9 as they admitted. So obviously issues you see or think you see are due to that... not something that happened 4 fucking years ago lol.

Rαy9/5/2019, 5:51:55 PM2 votes

Hope I can cut ties with this game soon as well. GJ, mate.

Curious Kat9/5/2019, 11:05:53 PM2 votes

Duuuuude, the whole "i can handle meta changes, iv'e played mid, jg, top, supp, adc" etc thing, but "the core of the game changes" got me. Holy shit right on the nail. That is MY issue with League.

I fell in love with the outplays, strategy, micro, positioning, objectives/teamwork side of League. Then i fell in love with certain champs, Kata being my bae. Yes i am completely aware she requires NONE OF THE ABOVE lol! BUT anyway, now none of that shit matters. None of it. All that matters is you pick a broken champ, preferably a new one, or a reworked one, and then just smash the buttons on CD.

Iv'e been playing since late season 2. Highest rank was Diamond 3. I had a few hours a day i could dedicate to League, and i always looked forward to it. Now i just dread it. I can't bring myself to play ranked anymore, with the matchmaking/mmr system being as fucked as it is, and with certain things like auto-fill that i just can't get behind. How can you accurately rank people, when you constantly fill teams with off-role picks, and mismatched ranks/mmrs? I mean, not even fucking CLOSE, i mean silvers with diamonds, or plats, or BLAH BLAH, HOW. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE. All for the sake of lower queue times? FUCK THAT SHIT, I'll wait 10 minutes if it means i get a team of people on their preferred role all around the sameish mmr/rank. Bronzes/silvers silvers/golds golds/plats. Those are reasonable jumps, not fucking silvers vs diamonds, like holy shit dude.

It's a few ARAMS and Norms for me every other day until i see some serious effort put into the game. I would say 3v3, but now even that will be gone, with absolutely zero effort put forth into saving it. NONE. Because of "statistics". "BUT OUR NUMBERS SAY< BUT BUT BUT< NUMBERS< NUMBERRRRSSSSSSS".

TLDR: Riot, League is a game, AND a business. But it should be a game FIRST. There was a time when you treated it rightfully so. Now, Your just EA, treating the game as a cash cow that you consistently milk till it's bone dry. Enough is enough.

LEh sigh... Honestly depressing to see the state this game is in, Good thing i have classic WoW lol. At least one company listens to it's playerbase, SOMEWHAT.

Beentjes9/5/2019, 1:34:42 PM1 votes

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I DONT CARE IF PRO PLAY IS BORING NO ONE IS WATCHING IT ANYMORE ANYWAYS

Nobody is watching... Worlds 2018 — 200 million viewers at once. Source: https://escharts.com/blog/worlds-2018-final

EATARI9/7/2019, 1:32:31 AM1 votes

The rants board still exists. Not saying you’re wrong, but there’s a place for threads like this and it’s not gameplay.