I took a break from League to play Battlerite instead, and I realized...
"Wow, League is really not fun."
In Battlerite, it's just all out teamfighting, a test of player skill. The only objective is the orb that gives you increased health. It's also 2v2 or 3v3 instead of 5v5. But with Battlerite, the games are a lot shorter. Battlerite is a MOBA as well, with champions that have abilities.
But the main difference, in my opinion is
Every
champion
is
meta.
If you pick Iva (my main), nobody flames you for picking somebody weak. There are no weak champions, and no OP champions. There's also no OP items to abuse (cough cough Ardent Censer). There's also nothing point and click, even your auto attacks are skillshots. The whole game is about raw player skill. There isn't any snowballing either. If the enemy team wins 2 rounds, you can still come back from that. Practically the only thing that resembles items in Battlerite is the custom loadouts you can have for every character, which buff their abilities in some way.
Compare that to League.
There's a select few champions that are really "viable," that have to build a select few meta items, or get stomped. The whole game is practically decided in champ select; whoever gets the more overpowered champion wins lane, and probably the game.
Honestly, Riot just needs to start nerfing things quicker. We've seen that they're capable of quick nerfs (support item nerfs, Overheal nerfs, Evelynn nerfs, Gangplank nerfs), but when it's something really important that needs to get nerfed (Ardent Censer again), they're nowhere to be seen. If a champion in League is garbage (Wukong, Mordekaiser), they won't buff them for years, unless it's one of the huge, every champion buffs, like the base stat changes for the Rune rework, and the spells drawing minion agro. In Wukong's case, they fucking nerfed him in 8.3. The last Wukong-specific buff that he got was in 5.22. For Mordekaiser, it was 6.16, which you can barely even call a buff. Riot has a very obvious bias about certain champions.
So at the very least, I'm not going to be playing League as much anymore, until they start nerfing things. Battlerite is just a much more appealing game to me right now.
