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Why does Riot always add something worse to the game every season? Why is Dragon Soul even a thing?

TeemoNeedsBuffs·2/25/2020, 8:55:42 PM·1 votes·2,367 views

Why did you ever think it was healthy to add these busted ass Dragon effects to the game? And don't even get me started on the free execute you get from Elder, oh yeah that's fair and balanced gameplay right there, just give them bonus damage AND throw in an execute with 0 counterplay as well, what's not to love about that?

You'd think that maybe these dragons would be harder to kill too when they give out such game breaking effects, but nope, every single one is beyond easy and can be duoed and even soloed like they're fucking red/blue buffs. Why do you consistently ruin your game further with every single decision you make? Why can't you people just sit your asses down and actually take more than a second to think: "Hmm, maybe we should think long term about these changes?" But no, you never do, you just keep changing things and making them consistently worse every single time.

Nobody likes the way the game is being changed, nobody likes the ever increasingly present unintuitive "Basic rotation = dead" bullshit that has infested every single match. Nobody likes walking to a bush to ward just to get instantly deleted by [Insert metaslave here] during the duration of a 2 second CC. There is nothing rewarding or even halfway enjoyable about trying your heart out to succeed just to get absolutely shat on with ease because the enemy picked the more broken recently released champion with more BS crammed inside a single ability than your character does in half their entire kit.

Stop trying to one up the designs of characters and "mechanics" in this game with ever escalating tiers of cancer, focus on the roster we already have, focus on the characters that never get touched because they have become mediocre garbage outclassed by every single new thing you've released.The only reason you people can't balance your game to satisfy the majority of your players is because you won't even fucking attempt it.

5 Comments

2gudaiya2/25/2020, 9:24:07 PM4 votes

because ya'll have trash shotcalling and now that will be exposed.

Exodus2472/25/2020, 9:22:17 PM3 votes

Preach it brother, before riot's thought police takes the thread down for saying what we are all thinking. Its sad to think that the game could be fixed were they to use ANY EFFORT AT ALL and focus more on game health and sustainability over FUCKING MONEY FUELED SHIT ASS CHANGES that do nothing but cater more and more to the meta nobody likes.

I dont know if youve noticed this aswell, but league as a game is quite literally on its last legs, because it doesnt even resemble a moba anymore, just another dime a dozen shit ass mobile game cash grab. Remember when it used to revolve around TEAMPLAY like a moba should? Now its just who picks the most op shit wins, and it will keep being that way unless the company loses money from their corporate overlords, having them panic and try to apeal to the audience they are shunning, or if "MAGICALLY" they all start to have morals over money and fix the game of their own free will.

I truely am saddened at the path they keep willingly walking down, and their ignorance is going to kill this game, and most likely the other games they are working on, leaving them dead on arrival. (I say this because 3 of the 4 games they teased during the 10th anniversary are genras of games that require HEAVY balancing to make work, being the fighter, card game and CS:GO like hero shooter thing, and judging by their agenda with league with more skins over actual fucking gameplay, i dont really see riot having a future after league really does die out)

Subdue2/25/2020, 9:28:44 PM3 votes

I like the dragon changes, even though I main a jungler that has relatively slow clears and struggles to solo dragon early. I also like the alcove updates as they create some interesting interactions when lane ganking.

Sett is the newest champion, and he's pretty strong. However, his performance in top lane is still short of much older champions like Garen and Darius, who are also both much easier to play. In the jungle is where he's shining, but again his performance is on par with Nunu, one of the original champions. Aphelios is the next champion, and he's sporting a win rate of 47% in Platinum+. Senna was right before him, and she's doing a lot better with a win rate of 53%, which does seem on the high side. However, she's doing less than 1% better than Miss Fortune, who is almost a decade old, and has a pick rate almost 4 times higher. As such, I think this argument is half-baked. A lot of older champions are still effective even at higher levels of play, and really at lower levels everything can be effective.

As for Dragon Soul and Elder, they're supposed to be game enders. I don't even remember the last time Elder Dragon was taken in one of my games, and Dragon Soul is rarely claimed before the 30 minute mark, so even that is pretty rare.

Shiroyashayami2/25/2020, 11:45:52 PM2 votes

Souls make 0 sense. They make dragons more important than barons which is insane.

Caretaker Jack2/25/2020, 9:57:39 PM1 votes

Games were wayy too long before... Surprisingly, games still drag on because people are just that stupid. As much as I hate to say this --the changes to objectives are good.