Snowball meta sucks

Noobgoat20·12/4/2017, 11:47:54 AM·58 votes·1,795 views

I know snowballing has always been apart of the game but now it feels like no game i play makes it to the 40 minute mark. I am a Kled top main and if top lane doesn't see a death in 5 minutes it feels like the top lane is there to fill up space on the map. If i am going against a tank i cannot kill them since i didn't snowball hard enough or i go against a bruiser and get camped the whole game. If i leave lane once i might as well kiss 1 tower good bye and the 2nd once will have like half health.

And if i play my second main role support(Braum/taric) then if i get my adc 2 kills the game is automatically gg, and there isn't a point is wasting 25-30 minutes of my time.

Solution- I think that the only way to fix the problem is to make towers stronger and to make objectives like dragon, rift, and barron that way if one team is stomping (which is every game) then at least the other team will have a chance to stop them before they get every objective on the map. I also think a slight nerf to some tanks and junglers is in need but that is only my thought.

23 Comments

AbiwonKenabi12/4/2017, 5:12:52 PM9 votes

I feel like everyone was dealing too much damage even before pre-season, and this is only exacerbated by the new Runes. Tower buffs would be really nice, at least to their durability, but players have been asking that for years now and Riot hasn't budged yet.

BeastOfCaerbanog12/4/2017, 1:50:01 PM3 votes

Given how currently every lane that doesn't have adc in it can be considered a rare exception, I don't see why it's the tanks that need nerfing...

Armstice12/4/2017, 9:13:30 PM2 votes

I think as a community 'snowball meta' is code for being so impatient as a community that inting has become second nature when players aren't ahead. I'm guilty of it myself, after the first 15 if things look grim the decision making becomes questionable at best.

LordGeovanni12/5/2017, 1:52:29 AM2 votes

I play 40 minute games but its never because you can hold to 40 mins but rather because the enemy or my team is bad at playing the end game objectives even if they get dragons they will back instead of forcing the 2 man enemy team under mid tower rather than 5 man diving them and getting 2 free towers one after the other if not straight to the inhib

FourVsFive12/5/2017, 4:35:56 AM2 votes

yah its sad and feels like a wast of time, we can defend are base for 20min but there is no way we can come back, it becomes a how long can we delay are loss.. played a game around 40min where we did not get 1 tower lol.

PePsiLemoNN12/5/2017, 11:19:06 AM2 votes

But watching mages clear waves for 50 minutes is fun and interactive right.

CrackShack12/6/2017, 2:17:44 AM2 votes

This entire game sucks

I Love Roses12/4/2017, 3:43:18 PM2 votes

Remember in season 7 people say they want snowballing meta back? I remember.

Sett a trap12/5/2017, 6:09:24 PM1 votes

I disagree, completely.

We got invaded and I died (Vayne), then the Ashe got a few more kills. She was already like 3-0 in lane phase.

Won the game 22-4-7 with 70K+ damage after the enemy team snowballing. We didn't have positive team gold until the very, very end.

Luckily 4/5 of my team remained chill, only the Kat freaked out. But they kept it cool and played around me and I got my 2nd item (BOTRK+Guinsoo) and shit was on.

https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2663669219/203166158?tab=overview

Mid Gold ELO ranked solo game.

swagpingu0112/5/2017, 6:47:28 PM1 votes

i liked a lot tank meta in season7... it was so good to have the teamfight immortal dude that took al damage and gave in return lots of CC... the only thing i did not liked during tank meta i saw a tank in my team less than half of my games and i was just asking "top, jungle pick a tank plz i pick an ardent censer support" they just said to me "support u can tank also" now i am thinking what a bronze toplaner/jungler was thinking during that meta? maybe this?:"why should i pick the strongest role in jungle or top, alias tank, while my support picks the most powerful type of support, the ardent censer healer when i can pick a no CC damage dealer that just get destroyed by an immortal guy and the support is forced to pick a tank while the enemy team has a tank and also an ardent censer healer?"

Bard R Friday12/5/2017, 1:52:33 AM1 votes

Completely agree, mark and dash just ruins ARAM.