You really messed up this season Riot.

Koolista·6/25/2016, 11:40:43 PM·69 votes·2,579 views

Congratulations at making league both boring and unsatisfying. You guys seriously lost it after Season 5. To the unnecessary nerfs and buffs to champs to really stupid unnecessary changes to items. A game i once loved and still want to love i now have to force myself to play. A game nowadays doesnt go beyond 25 minutes, how rewarding. As short as it is, winning or losing, i still want the game to be over for how damn boring its become. You guys know this too, but refuse to do anything about it and fuck up even more for the sake of what, money? Horrible company and im somewhat glad Blizzard, a good company, is taking your business.

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Support Bοt6/26/2016, 12:20:40 AM23 votes

Well the main mistake of Riot was remake a realy, really good MOBA game into some Hybrid-fastaction-instantkills-clicker where pick to win is like 80% of matches champions deals horrible dmg. Armor pene is in almost every item AD. Supports are unsatisfactionary due to HUGE NERFS and constantly changes into their. Useless reworks that makes champions not fun to play and kills their mechanics. Changes in items without nerfing champions (Irelia, Jax with new 3force). Making VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW BALANCE PATCHES. I've been waiting like 3 months for zed nerf.... WTheck riot? Why so slow? Srsly. You are debalancing game very quickly without any further mind, but if goin about balance you are sooooo sloooooowwww.

deadlychuck6/26/2016, 7:47:05 AM12 votes

I wouldn't go strait to "blizzard, a good company" I know they're different teams, but blizzard did this exact same thing with wow for years, and only now (after ~6 years) have they seemed to make an effort to back peddle to where the game use to be. They said they wanted to with WoD, but just doubled down.

dragon1xx6/26/2016, 2:01:30 AM8 votes

You know, I have an idea. Go to Riot's computer where all the patches are stored. It should look like a potato with wires sticking out of it. Then scroll past the folder that says, "LE MEEEEMMMMEEESSSZZZZ" and right before the folder that says, "MONEYYYYYYYYYY." The folder is called, "pAtCh nOtES." Click on it and go to the Season 5 folder. Then click the button that says, "Release as new patch?" and hit yes.

JedenVojak6/26/2016, 8:08:34 AM7 votes

Uninstall the game then.

I did.

Meta Phyton6/26/2016, 6:38:59 AM6 votes

Come onnnnn.

Really, did you ever enjoy the game owing to the fact it was perfectly balanced ... EVER?

Come on! You did not give a rat's ass about balance before! THAT IS WHY YOU ENJOYED YOURSELF.

Now you don't even bother to look for anything positive to enjoy, 'cause you're so firmly, firmly set on perceiving the negative and you are totally, totally obsessed by some mystical promise of "balance" that is making you miserable.

Basically, you turned into a grump dude!

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/511d104a69bedd1f7c000012/grumpy-cat-still-hates-everyone-at-south-by-southwest.jpg[/img]

^ Look at your mirror reflection - this is what you and a lot of other players look like.

kuzzy476/26/2016, 2:10:13 PM4 votes

Useless post.You made no points why the game it's worse now and no games don't end in 25 mins unless stomps.

oChase6/26/2016, 7:09:46 AM3 votes

Honestly in personal opinion. They messed up in one area and that is the ranked system. Last season i hit gold by myself. Felt pretty good and honestly i liked some teammates i got even if i got the occasional leaver/salty player. Though with this season, i have gotten every possible leaver and/or toxic player. On top of that I have recently lost roughly 10 games in the course of 3 days. Now i'm a reasonable player so i'll stop after two losses, sometimes after one if i'm feeling salty, but for me to lose 10 straight games for the same reason every single time is incredibly frustrating. Even when i duo to get an ally i trust, there is always those one or two players that literally will not listen and play as though they alone can bring the win. Last season i loved ranking because i'd get some fun allies that were also my mmr. I've had some plat 5's that make worse plays than i do. Sometimes i get them again and wonder why and how you let someone like that in plat but im stuck in gold 5/4 because you let players like that sit at my mmr on top of giving me them in the first place. I like to tank, Riot. It really is bothersome that i officially have to find a way to carry in damage to win. These past 10 losses are all on tank champs and the one reprieve i got was on yi. Though my carry win rates are rather low. Yes i could do a better job and i acknowledge that but, i'd at least like to get players that don't prevent me from improving. I can't improve when im getting stomped by 15 minutes.

Kitty Hole6/26/2016, 5:11:44 AM3 votes

They need to take notes from Smite. The only way you win or lose is by skill in that game.

HaloDragonX6/26/2016, 5:07:34 PM3 votes

Well we have Dynamic Queue with it's Dynamic Drama.

Viktor can 1 shot people with 2 abilities that aren't even ultimates. He also still has a 180 AP item that I'm surprised hasn't been nerfed in accordance with other AP items.

Azir is a huge offender having an escape that has long range, self peel, long range damage, and insane level damage.

Ryze hasn't been Olaf'd yet so he can be reworked without being cancer in the game.

Kindred's auto attack still deal too much but let's nerf every other part about her.

Ekko was literally gutted as an assassin and jungler. (Cause let's not make him more assassin by removing some utility.)

We still haven't buffed old devourer junglers who were nerfed because of devourer. (Ex. Kayle, Yi, Shyv.)

Cloud Drake is literally useless but at least that's being looked it.

Kayle jungle, despite having the lowest playrate of all other meta Kayle roles, also holds the lowest winrate. clearly showing how underpower she is as a jungler. (Lower playrates offend mean higher winrates.)

Nidalee still has too much in her kit and insane clear speed.

Junglers in general can literally camp lanes (yes, literally) and barely get behind. Thankfully this is kinda being changed with champion kills giving less XP.

Rylai's Crystal Scepter is one of the biggest offenders as an item giving a lot of tankiness with a large chunk of AP and the one of the greatest utility passive in the game, and with the massive amount of CDR most AP champions can permaslow for 40%. Coupled with Liandyr's this is pretty insane.

On the contrary, Luden's Echo is probably one of the worst AP items due to it's low-mid damage on it's passive.

Vlad can heal from 4% HP to 70% in one instance, which is beyond levels on insane. Meanwhile Swain has one of the most annoying laning phases to fight.

GW hasn't been removed or massively lowered in the amount of it so healing can actually be balanced.

Fiora is literally an RNG champion. RNG passive, Riposte based on players ping.

Zyra's passive being able to spawn 2 seeds is another offender of unhealthy RNG. Also similar to Azir.

Aurelion Sol has literally been nerfed despite being not that good of a champion.

Master Yi can still be hit by AoE's and skillshots in Alpha Strike (and die to them), even when Alpha Striking inside a Kindred ultimate.

Graves has both burst, range, assassination, tankiness, and mobility with little trade-off.

Cait's traps are heavily overtunned.

Quinn cancels out melee champions. Kennen is quite similar but not as bad.

Riot has yet to Balance manaless champions properly. Ex. Zed, Riven, Kennen

The game has too much CDR available. In fact, because of CDR being so good, auto attack champions like Jinx, Kayle, Tristana, and Vayne aren't very good (unless you have some "overpowered" item named Rageblade).

Rageblade now sucks on melee champions.

Gunblade isn't a good item anymore because it doesn't work with Rageblade anymore.

The game has too much of a mobility creep.

Mortal Reminder/Executioner's Calling gives GW for free without restriction, making champions like Olaf, Darius, and Aatrox useless once an enemy builds it.

LDR still has a massive 15% bonus damage for a quite low health cap.

Giant Slayer, Seeker's Armguard, and Hexdrinker only build into 1 item, personally I believe they could all have 1 more option for more diversity but also make other champions better.

Phantom Dancer still has a lower cost than the other Zeal items, the best stats, 12% MS and 12% dmg reduction to invalidate bruisers.

Riot still hasn't found a way to balance Kalista, but then again she's a part of the the mobility creep.

Lucian's ultimate is a near perfect perma-kite. Honestly needs a few small changes to make it not.

Varus still can't activate Ghostblade while charging his Q.

They still haven't killed off Armor Pen items being abused on ADC.

Ghostblade still gives 20 armor pen, making the item have an effective 80 AD while still having an insane active.

Duskblade's passive is terrible an killing tanks, despite being made to be an "assassin's answer to tanks".

Death's Dance AoE healing clause makes it terrible on most all champions except Graves, if this clause didn't exist it would be great on Varus.

Irelia's cooldowns, especially the stun, are a bit too low. There's a reason why she's mostly perma ban now thanks to Trinity.

Something is dumb with Hecarim right now, I just don't know what it is exactly but Trinity brought him back.

Banner of Command is outclassed by Locket somehow.

EDIT: Oh yeah, MR itemization was also gutted for practically no reason, which is why mages are so strong right now.


Anything else?

Of course, there have a been a few good changes. The ones to Unholy Grail were fantastic at making a mage support feel more useful.

Keevalroy6/26/2016, 4:49:54 PM3 votes

Blizzard, a good company,

https://i.imgur.com/Divi9yo.png?1

But yes, they really fucked up bad this time.

Gibberwatt6/26/2016, 4:58:53 PM2 votes

I love what Riot did with mages. And if they are now gonna fix assasins, then that is great too. I don't even mind DQ, although that might just be lack of experience. I do agree with you about hte length of the game, though. Maybe a buff to tower health would be cool

Feed Daddy6/26/2016, 5:17:04 PM2 votes

Nothings wrong with league yell r just salty

GundayMonday6/27/2016, 5:36:00 PM1 votes

I've seen the exact opposite. Not sure we're playing the same game.

Bagguette6/27/2016, 2:05:38 AM1 votes

I play champs like Fiora ,Riven, Vi& Ahri because they make the game extremely fun and fast pace for me.

I joined during this season so i don't know what i'm missing though.

Electric Buyers6/26/2016, 3:43:29 PM1 votes

I personally don't mind the changes... except for one... And you know what the fuck I am talking about.

Aside from that, all the class updates and things like that I feel are a long time coming, especially with the incoming assassin update. As far as runes and masteries, they can't be blamed for ruining a whole season, considering its just a numbers tweak away from balance. That said, I like the attention that the champs are getting and feel like the game is in an all around healthy state as of this most recent patch. Now if we could just get that ranked integrity we have all been clamoring about.