The Lack of Continuity and Stability is Discouraging

LifeCyclesTWA·5/30/2015, 6:38:15 AM·3 votes·1,246 views

I feel this game will never be truly be balanced because Riot keeps on fucking with it. You like the new jungle? Thats nice, its going to be completely changed in Season 6. You have a favorite champion? They are going to be nerfed/buffed overplayed/underplayed and then eventually reworked in the future when people deem their kits "old"

Compare that to DotA2 which is pretty damn balanced and has remained much the same since the first game. A DotA player can hop onto DotA 2 and use the same exact builds they used in DotA1 and still be successful. People in this game call 1-year-old kits "old", jesus imagine what they'd say about kits that have remained largely unchanged for 10 years? What makes DotA fun despite the lack of change? What makes people play DotA even though you are given every single hero in the game when you first start playing? Because its fun as hell. There is no hardset "meta" like league of legends.

I am not saying "Guys! DotA is better!" I am saying that some stability would be nice here in the community and contrary to what people say stability is very fun as well. Why not balance your game first then make changes, not balance champions around certain items... nerf the items... then forget to revert previous changes to said champions... then completely change certain aspects of the game... the list goes on and on and its discouraging. What happened to champions with clear-cut strengths and weaknesses?

In DotA, you can run 2 top, 1 mid, 2 bottom (referred to as 2-1-2), you can run a 1-2-2, a 3-1-1, an agressive or a defensive 1-1-3. You can or cannot have a jungler. You can have someone that just roams around the map gank people, otherwise known as the roamer/ganker. There are so many fucking roles in DotA it is ridiculous. It seems complicated, but its really not. Its basically a big "do whatever the fuck you want, if you really want to make it work you can." Here, if you do anything aside from 1-1-2 with a jungler everyone will shit a brick. The only variety you will see is if a team runs a 2-1-1 with a jungler. And with the constant change occuring, the champions will never truly be balanced. Every change causes a ripple effect amongst all champions. Come on people. I love this game, please stop fucking with it. You had a great thing going and if you guys stop changing for the sake of change and focus moreso on the balancing aspect of the game I feel as though all of us as players would be very happy.

TL;DR Less change, more balancing please.

4 Comments

DrNova5/30/2015, 7:09:42 AM3 votes

Just because people are meta slaves doesnt mean its a problem. Thats player mindset, not the game.

And I liek that things are always in flux. Its why League is league. things are new every season, and it keeps the game fresh.

Every season there is always something people talk about. "Remember the tank meta." "Remember Feral Flare era: ect.

I prefer things to be changing and adapting then staying the same for all time. Change brings life, a stale game is less healthy. If the game was perfectly balanced, it would have to remain as is for a long time, and it would get old.

It stays unbalanced because things change. So learn the changes, adapt how you play. It makes for a healthy game.