"Going Back to Good League"

Billy Slams·Feb 8, 2017·3 votes·549 views

I started in March of 2016, which means that I have not been playing for a full year. However, in that time, I have come to learn that people seem to really like the state of the game during Season 3. If thats the case, and people really dislike whats happening with all the changes, then why not go back to Season 3 basics? What made Season 3 so much better than other years of league? Why not return to what made that Season enjoyable? Why not just try and balance the game more so every champion is playable, and stop pumping out new champs and changing around everything? Those are real questions that Im curious about by the way. Thanks, William Slamson

7 Comments

TheFallenShawFeb 8, 20171 votes

They didn't have position selection in season 3 nor autofill. So you useally got the role you wanted had low que times and wasnt bullyied by riot into autofill. Also games were longer and seem more fun. You had a number of stacking items like lantern, in the jungle that transformed. Team comps didnt have tobe 1 top 1 mid 1 jug and 2 bot but usually were. You met in the lobby and with your team desided on roles and placement as a team. It allowed more team cordination and sportsmanship. League is twice as toxic today as it was then. Builds and every game is almost the same now.

Billy SlamsFeb 9, 20171 votes

I feel like longer games being more fun should not work. One of my problems with league is that a loss feels like 40 minutes gone, especially when you don't try and learn or improve from the loss. I like the 1 1 1 2 Team comp. I think toxicity increases when player base increases, and thats why they have the /mute all feature. There is no way to prevent intentional feeding or trolling, other than a report after the game. Which is shitty, but there is not currently another way to do it. I agree with builds needing more diversity, I think my biggest problem with league is that the Meta is like 2 champs per role, which is really really bad. I think if they tried to balance the game so all champions were good, rather than just keep buffing or nerfing the top they might have better results. I understand thats a tall order, but I think working on New Champs and New Items is a very bad idea when they could be improving the game through balancing, and improving diversity, so all champs are decently good. Like Kindred is almost unplayable, they feel terrible to play right now, where as Khazix/Graves/Vi are very strong.

MrHaZeYoFeb 9, 20171 votes

Uh what you never got the role you actually wanted and when you did you had to always high pick it 1st/2nd

The JigSAWFeb 8, 20171 votes

I joined right when Season 3 started. You want to know why it was so good?

No Yasuo
Jungler was optional (duo top was the norm, after season 3 ended junglers were a thing for good so we can have level 2 rengar's diving level 6 rivens at half health and ruining your game!)
Team Builder (guaranteed champ and role, pick who you want on the team, kick out people you don't want) began its three year, way too short existence.
Patches didn't come out every two weeks so people actually got to play champions without nerfing/buffing/changing everything about them constantly.
Most people were a lot nicer than our lovely community today. People would help newbies out, now most newbies are just smurfs trolling on a new account.
Nobody dreaded the incoming reworks to their champions which Riot had so much confidence in they refuse to offer refunds once the champion is announced as being reworked, since at this point the champions were still all relatively newish.

Now today, everything gets changed constantly and we have Yasuo running around with nearly no cooldown destroying people thinking he's actually skilled, and right next to him is true damage assassin Yi with a meditate that pauses his ult and E while he stacks double-strike, builds being generally static like you said, champions being changed significantly every two weeks, and team builder being gone for the failure that is champ select which actually is WORSE than a mode added four years ago for champion and role guarantees.

Billy SlamsFeb 9, 20171 votes

I disagree with your comment about Yasuo. I feel like he's not that hard to pickup and really hard to play perfectly. I agree with the comment on patches not coming out every 2 weeks, I think that theres not enough time for the full public to test patches. I think having a JG is a good thing. I feel like saying the community is nicer is a BS point. With an increase in people there will always be an increase in toxicity(thats why they have /mute all). I don't think reworks are a bad thing, I just feel that they should ask people who play more of that champion if they would like to see a rework. I think Role Guarantees aren't a bad thing, nor do I think autofill is a bad thing. I think Role Preference is very good in the system, and autofill rewards players for knowing the basics of every position.

KarhtelFeb 9, 20171 votes

Yasuo is so easy to deal with and master yi? Really lol. Nothing wrong with those champs. Team builder was trash. It took forever to find games half the time.

MrHaZeYoFeb 9, 20171 votes

Yas easy early Season 4, People consider S4 still part of the good times.

Team Builder was mid-late season 4, and I personally hated it.

Junglers were the norm in season 3, duo top fell out of flavor like late season 2/early 3.