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A Veteran Silver Player's Take on the Patch

DOUBLE TAPPED E··1 votes·553 views

Hey guys, I felt like doing this, so I did. A bit of background: I've been Silver for the past 4 seasons, mostly because I'm too lazy to grind, despite doing all the requisite climbing homework (champion knowledge, macro play, etc.) and I'd like to share my thoughts on the most recent patch from the perspective of someone who loves League and has a desire to win and improve, but also understands that not everyone is going to go pro.

I have played this game A LOT. Probably somewhere close to 6500 games across 4 accounts over the last 7 years, so while I may not have some crazy high rank, I've been around the block enough to know basically what I'm talking about.

I'll just go section by section, following along with the notes, separated by titles.

CHAMPIONS

Irelia: Cool, I like the new Irelia, she seems fun. I just got done testing her out in a custom 4v5 and it was a blast!

Gragas: Glad to see some love for the town drunk, he used to be one of my go-to midlaners way back when.

Elise: She definitely needed some love. Elise has been falling off since the end of League of Warmog's, glad to see my second-favorite shapeshifter getting a bit of attention.

Hecarim: I guess. I wish the game would move away from sustained teamfights instead of adapting champions to fit into them better. I miss the times when it was more about individual play than team synergy.

Ivern: Sweet! Ivern is hilarious, and super fun to play, even if I'm absolute trash at him. Glad to see this.

Karthus: I don't know about this. His weakness in lane is supposed to be his main point of counterplay. We'll see what happens but I don't think shoring up a champions main identifiable weakness is the right call.

Kayn: Good! This will be great for Kayn, especially if the enemy team doesn't have enough of the champions you need to get the form you want and you have to wait for the cooldown. Some concern for this making top lane Kayn hit his Rhaast power spike too early but we'll see.

Leona: Ok. I mean, not much of a change here but cool I guess, her AP ratios are crap anyway.

Lux: I'll be honest I haven't picked up Lux since her last set of changes so I'm not too sure how this will affect her.

Malphite: 80 second ult at max rank. Let's hope you haven't created a monster, rito.

Nocturne: I've always thought Nocturne has stayed in a relatively good spot. I like this change; subtle but noticeable.

Olaf: Meh... I mean... what about people who don't take Predator on Olaf? Where's the compensation? Personally I prefer Conqueror, even in the jungle. I feel like this one could have been handled better.

Quinn: Cool, bugfixes, I'm down.

Rengar: Please be careful. As much as I love knifecat, being one-shot with no warning is completely not fun. This makes it easier for him to snowball to that point.

Rumble: Where the hell has Rumble been anyway? I haven't even thought about him in ages. Good, I'm glad he's getting something.

Sejuani: You are designing the game around longer teamfights. I don't get it. Long teamfights are anti-fun.

Shaco: I agree with the first part, disagree with the second. Leave the crazy bastard with his crazy damage, he falls off anyway.

Swain: Neat! Now do the same thing for every passive in the game with a cooldown and we're talking. Still not sure if he was THAT broken. He's pretty easy to play around. I like it though.

Warwick: So THAT's why I kept getting bursted down before I could pop my ult as Trynd... I was wondering why Q did so much damage.

Zed: Cool, ninjas are sweet. I might pick up Zed again after this.

ITEMS

Guinsoo's Rageblade: Yeah it was pretty busted at that price, good call.

Locket of the Iron Solari: Yeah shields are dumb, stupid shields.

Ninja Tabi: Alright cool, I only ever bought them to reduce AA damage anyway, I consider this a buff.

Aura Items: LOL! I didn't know that was a thing! That's hilarious! Good fix! XD

Relic Shield Line: I mean... if they are "slightly" outperforming other items, why nerf the passive gold by 75%? That's a lot more than slightly.

RUNES

Resolve Tree: The whole point of runes is to give early game power... whatever man, you could have taken the more challenging but also more rewarding approach of buffing the other trees to make them more attractive as secondaries. I don't like this.

Manaflow Band: Interesting... oh god Ryze is going to love this one!

Presence of Mind: Hey, cool! A reason to use PoM on someone besides Kassadin!

Legend: Tenacity: This was always my choice whenever I went Precision primary anyway, I'm down for a buff, thanks!

Cut Down: Hm. I don't see this making much difference.

Zombie Ward: Not a bad way to fix this. It was DEFINITELY broken before, and now I have a reason to maybe take Eyeball Collection... please buff Ghost Poro. (Lingering vision of champions that step on them would be nice.)

Approach Velocity: Alrighty, still probably won't use it, but cool.

Absolute Focus: Ok.

MINIONS

Hey now this is something I'm interested in seeing the impact of. Holy moly what an exciting change!

CREST OF CINDERS

A step in the right direction. Thank you rito!

ATTACK MOVE ON CURSOR

I don't use attack move unless I'm splitting and watching my team or walking blind into a bush but cool I guess.

VOICE CHAT

Whatever I didn't even read this section.

BUGFIXES

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And that's it! Hopefully you made it this far! Do you agree? Disagree? With what and for what reason? Let's hear it folks!

11 Comments

Kaioko2 votes

Obviously you're fine with your opinions but quite a few of the ones you don't agree with are completely off the mark as to why they were put into place.

Hecarim: Changes is good he's suppose to do more than rush in kill someone and then die.

Karthus: He's not a late game champion since like season 4 or 5. No point in an ult that has so many ways to escape it come late game. His strength is from the mid game

Lux: It's a general band-aid fix since she's one of the worse (if not the worse) mid laner currently in the higher ranks but it won't fix her horrible waveclear and her horrible roaming.

Malphite: He's not in a good spot at the moment compared to other top lane tanks like Maokai. I'm not a fan of AP Malphite but the buff was needed

Olaf: Changes are good it's to offset the early ganks that Olaf gets from the Jungle. The only time you take conqueror is in the top lane which IMO is where he should be played more. He's also been performing really well with conqueror in the top lane so this won't hurt him.

Sejuani: She's currently the #1 best tank jungler around and absolutely disgusting when played right because of the CC she provides. The nerf is good.

Shaco: They overbuffed him to compensate when Duskblade went away. He literally was two hitting (Backstab + Q) for around 1,500 damage at 4 items. They nerfed Q ratio and now are bringing backstab back in line as well.

Ninja Tabi: The main reason for this is how it shut down lethality users completely and did more than just reduce auto attack damage but rather all physical damage from that amount of armor (especially with tenacity becoming less and less useful)

Relic Shield Lines: Because any good support will always have a charge up for canon minion whose gold is going up drastically

Resolve Runes: Overperforming early for tanks and underperforming late and no they are not meant to be strong early. Runes are no longer the flat/scaling decision you once had to make

DOUBLE TAPPED E1 votes

Who downvoted without leaving a comment? Lazy lazy lazy.

HalcyonDweller3 votes

Lots of people it seems. Chill dude, votes don't matter that much if you're just posting for discussion.

Also you did kind of give people a lot of things to disagree with you about. Chances are, most of your downvotes came from people who got partway through your post and decided they didn't agree with or like what you had said. That's the risk you run when you give your thoughts on a bunch of different characters all at once.

As a fellow veteran who plays mostly casually, I disagreed with some of the things you said, for example "Longer teamfights are anti-fun." That's just dead wrong, teamfights should be long enough to allow for skill expression, any shorter and they run the risk of feeling super unfulfilling. Frontloaded damage from things like Crit is a big part of fights being too short.

I think you didn't need to talk about your rank if you were just giving general thoughts. Talking about rank sets the tone for a serious discussion and people are more likely to take sides against you that way.

DOUBLE TAPPED E1 votes

I was just giving my rank for a bit of context, to let people know what my experience is in the game. Obviously a silver player and a diamond player will have vastly different experiences and perspectives on many topics in league.

It's not the votes that bug me, it's the votes in the absence of comments, basically saying "I read your post, and I disagree, but I'm not going to tell you why."

HalcyonDweller1 votes

I sympathize, it's kind of rude, but that's just how things are here on the boards.

If you want people to respond you can't throw an entire list of topics at them, better to make individual posts for the ones you care most about, then people will have something to focus on. It's too much effort for people to respond to all of those points, especially when they don't care about most of them.

Plus, your title alone is likely to draw the ire of pretty much every elitist asshole out there. Anyone who's rank-ist will dislike your post simply because you are a low rank player giving thoughts about an entire patch. It bites, but some people are just like that.

Anastaecia1 votes

im still downloading...it's at 319/285? [sg-janna]

DOUBLE TAPPED E1 votes

Because math!

Anastaecia1 votes

{quoted}

Because math!

Riot math.

1v1 Terror1 votes

They didn't bug fix Rage blade Jhin? Guess I might as well afk for another patch cycle. Although I should try to squeeze some win through with AP malphite. HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE

C9 Squeeky 1 votes

You realize they buff cannon minion gold? Relic line would be busted if it wasn't nerfed

oortoomeebreesuu1 votes

i scrolled a little through, and my eyes locked on the phrase "Long team fights are anti-fun"

it's like I was able to see a tumor through somebody's clothing

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