The day Riot decided to make games shorter.....

FreshAsFebreze·Jan 29, 2017·24 votes·1,554 views

was the day this game just started going downhill. There's no more strategy involved, Riot encourages snowballing, champ selection probably uses about 10% of the total amount of champions, and of course, games are usually 20 minutes or less. For the people that were bringing up the issue of "games being too long", unless Riot decided this on their own in which I hope not, you were probably the worst players on the Rift. The ones who couldn't position correctly in a teamfight, or couldn't manage objectives correctly. Unless Riot reverts their changes in order to "make games faster", these 2 second teamfights and the insta blowing up of anyone anytime will always occur.

12 Comments

MrHaZeYoJan 29, 20178 votes

It's weird back in S3/4 they were trying to stop snowballing, now they brought it back.

SnowplosionJan 29, 20173 votes

It's because people complained about "boring" 50 minute games happening all the time. Now the same people want the games longer again. I wish The would make up their minds.

EschetonJan 29, 20173 votes

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It's because people complained about "boring" 50 minute games happening all the time. Now the same people want the games longer again. I wish The would make up their minds.

Pretty sure those people are having a blast playing Yasuo. Riven, Camille etc. It's different people complaining. Those that don't like playing this "meta".

Ben SharpioJan 29, 20172 votes

nah this game became a lot better when we can end a game in 20 minutes. Feels really rewarding for playing properly early game.

SnowplosionJan 29, 20171 votes

I think a lot of people missed the sarcasm in this post.

Covert Ops GnarJan 29, 20173 votes

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nah this game became a lot better when we can end a game in 20 minutes. Feels really rewarding for playing properly early game.

Really rewarding when I'm playing bottom lane, am out-cs'ing an equally skilled player, am slightly ahead in lane, but not enough to fully engage-

and then there's top lane 0-5 and game is over before I can leave lane.

There's a reason you're bronze

doiminat0r3600Jan 29, 20172 votes

The thing is, riot is listening to the community. If the community rejects a change, then riot tries to fix it (indirectly of course).

During the tank meta, people complained games were too long (45 min avg) and that nobody was dying fast enough. Now, season 6 just ended and tanks are being killed in record time.

We caused this.

FxyOJan 29, 20171 votes

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was the day this game just started going downhill. There's no more strategy involved, Riot encourages snowballing, champ selection probably uses about 10% of the total amount of champions, and of course, games are usually 20 minutes or less. For the people that were bringing up the issue of "games being too long", unless Riot decided this on their own in which I hope not, you were probably the worst players on the Rift. The ones who couldn't position correctly in a teamfight, or couldn't manage objectives correctly. Unless Riot reverts their changes in order to "make games faster", these 2 second teamfights and the insta blowing up of anyone anytime will always occur.

try playing dota. much slower.

Akali PrimeJan 29, 20171 votes

i think riot should create a gamemode thats just a longer version of SR giving towers and minions more hp and lowering XP gain so the games can last 40 mins to an hour.

LauchmelderJan 29, 20171 votes

And make it a permanent mode with it's only queue being ranked. Yes please.

LiofaJan 29, 20171 votes

League is the FPS of the DoTA clone world. Mechanics and reaction > macro play. You don't need to to think to micro your way to diamond with Yasuo and its why he'll never be changed, Riot wants the game to be like this. They want you to get a massive boner every time you use yet another moblity creeped ability, they want you to make a montage of every champ that can jump 90 thousand times in the span of 15 seconds, they want you to scream at the top of your lungs DID U SE DAT OUTPLAY OMGUR when you play this game. Things like actually winning a game get in the way of these fantasies which is why towers and objectives are a joke and mobility/damage/shield creep are in full throttle.

FreshAsFebrezeJan 29, 20171 votes

Everyone has valuable input, I just don't want the feeling of the game being over by 10-15 minutes when you see a 5-0 adc or 6-2 jungle. I just don't understand why people hated the 45 minute games. Those seemed the most tense and rewarding if you made a good play or stole an objective. Now, objectives don't even mean shit. Get one person fed as fuck and good luck stopping them. A Riven, with todays cd buffs, can easily 1v3 or 1v4 a team is she has a + 4-5 rating.