Honestly I wish Riot would just come out and definitively state what they want.

Skorch··7 votes·3,575 views

Honestly Riot is Whipped. Sure people dont think that because whoever is unhappy is the most vocal. Thats just how forums work. Whoever is unhappy thinks Riot is just insane "gameplay team silver lel" (not all but thats the idea.) I kind of wish Riot would just come out and say what they are looking for.

It would honestly save them some players instead of: ADC players: We want ADCs to carry (Riot makes it a Carry Meta, 5% of tanks/Assassin players leave) Assassins: We cant kill the people we are supposed to play (Riot makes it an assassin meta, 5% of ADCs Leave) Fighters: We cant fight tanks, we need more damage (Riot makes it a fighter meta, 5% of tanks and adcs leave) Like that.

If they would just state what they want so people CANT be as entitled to what meta is "best" they would just either learn to deal with it or leave. But over time there would be less upset players who think Riot is targeting them because someone else didnt like their class.

Riot needs to stop cycling metas. When people use to say "I like how the game is always shifting, it keeps it fresh" Riot took that and made it a goal. Which isnt what that phrase is for. People like NATURAL balancing keeping things fresh. Not "We havent had a different meta in a while. Lets completely change all of 1 groups items." Like we see now. We want Riot to try to BALANCE the game. Not just cycle whos broken. The game will naturally change then. And it will be more enjoyable.

I just want Riot to come out and state what they want instead of people stating what the game should be "I like short games" "Well I like long games" "I find tank metas fun" "well i find assassin metas fun" None of that Riot needs to come out and say (for example): We want games on average 30min, Not 15-20, not 40-60. We will balance ADC powerspikes around when they need them in order to be in a game that long. We want all champions between 48% and 52% winrate, if they are below 48% we will buff, if they are above 52% we will nerf." We will balance most champions between the ranks of platinum - diamond. And will nerf strategies that are too overbearing in competitive.

I feel like if this happened. People would stop guessing why Riot does what they do, and stop thinking their "vision" of the game is superior.

It is impossible to make everyone happy, but instead of flip flopping all over the place, making EVERYONE upset. They should just take a stand.

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TheShinx2 votes

Honestly will probably never happen. Riot is too focused on making as much money now then actually keeping their game balanced. The amount of skins, Emotes, and other shit they have been working on lately is stupid in comparison to the amount of actual changes made to the game that didn't fuck over the game in the last 6 months.

I get that riot is a business and they need to make money in order to run. But you can't run a business if there is no one to buy stuff. That's what league will become sooner rather then later because of the changes being made. I feel like the meaningful changes (Banner being removed for example) have been far and few between. ADC change was completely unnecessary, as the only thing needing to be changed was IE, and it could have been a minor change. Take Crit chance away from IE add a Long sword (+10 AD to whatever +AD it had) and keep the passive the same. Then for champions like Jhin who get insta crit, reduce the dmg they do for critical hits. Make it like this for Jhin and Ashe (although I feel like even before the ADC change, Ashe was trash tier): Damage done be Critial hits do 80% of Base Attack Damage. So they would buy IE, but could be punished if that's what they rush first.

Like I said. I will say it won't happen. But if riot finally gets their head out of the sand and smell the Morning Coffee, they could probably make the game balanced and not have this flip-flop meta.

aw beans1 votes

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Honestly will probably never happen. Riot is too focused on making as much money now then actually keeping their game balanced. The amount of skins, Emotes, and other shit they have been working on lately is stupid in comparison to the amount of actual changes made to the game that didn't fuck over the game in the last 6 months.

Different teams completely, its just that determining changes that feel legitimately fair take a lot more time, have to go through multiple phases of testing and often turn out to require changes due to other updates and adaptations to the meta.

CrazFight 2 votes

They have before tho?

Some things they have said:

1: Games should be aimed at ending around 30 min

2: Laning phase duration is i think in a good spot, the variance is sometimes unhealthy tho. Ex: Tower being destroyed at 7 minutes. Smaller laning phases don't allow harder snowballs.

There are many others, many times posted under the dev corner.

AirKingNeo1 votes

The problem is each meta is meta strick. If you don't play within that meta, you will have a worse experience.

Skorch1 votes

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The problem is each meta is meta strick. If you don't play within that meta, you will have a worse experience.

But why are they choosing what meta is strong via people complaining, what they WANT as a meta. If they tried to actually balance the game, instead of appeasing the players of whatever champion set is weak, and buff those champions naturally instead of a massive shift. Not only would the game feel more healthy, but the difference in on-meta and off-meta champions would be way smaller.

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