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My thoughts on the new champ select as a forever silver player.

Veszeth·1/15/2016, 9:41:46 AM·3 votes·738 views

Alright so I have been playing league for 4 years now and the last 2 I have focused on ranked play almost exclusively. I'm not that good..doesn't really matter, but I have played a ton of games and there this new system really bothers me for a few reasons.

First off, the most important aspect of champ select, the chat box, got sized down into the size of the minimap. Now since the client decides your role for you there is no more negotiating between players. Example. you see a champ that isn't a good matchup for you or maybe someone wants your role also and you can't say "ok, sure man ill go this instead". I think more people are afraid to switch roles now even more that you can't switch at the end of select. The pro scene might be unaffected but now all us in soloq are basically up for getting counter picked every time.

Then the first part of the select is pick your preferred champ. I can imagine it might help when someone said "ohhh why did you ban that I was going to pick him/her" but that rarely even happened and usually they aren't even that upset about it. But now, everyone has to wait a little bit longer for the game to start.

And the bans..I have never seen them be a problem for one guy to handle before. It's almost always been the same fotm op champs banned every game. And the players on your team will always ask to ban the same ones. Now it just seems to take more time with the same thing happening of your teammates asking for the same bans.

Another thing that bothers me is the change to all the sound ques. Before I could alt tab out..maybe read some reddit or league boards while everybody was picking and know when it was my turn to pick and when the game was about to start. Now I feel like I need 100pct focus on the champ select or I might mess up somehow. I'm sure it'll get easier after awhile but seeing so many people miss bans and forgetting to lock in I just feel frustrated. It is taking me a signifigant amount of time longer to start a game than it did before. Even after 5 dodges I think i could get into a game quicker than what's been going on tonight.

And lastly, I love this game and I just feel frustrated by the changes..also I never post but could you move the buttons on the bottom right for adding icons and such. It made typing this post much more painful than it needed to be.

edit: ALSO the reselecting the roles you want every single time you que up gets annoying. :)

7 Comments

Dread Pirate Jah1/15/2016, 9:48:39 AM2 votes

Reasons I think the new Matchmaking system in League Of Legends sucks.

  1. If you're in lower elo's, with the you will face extremely long que times due to the overwhelming unintutive nature of this new system, there has been mass amounts of dodges. Either they don't ban or "Lock" in their character after they have "selected". For people that have played thousands and thousands of games, this habit will most definitly die hard for some, and at what cost? Mass amounts of LP lost for nothing and sitting in 1-2 hour que times.
    I personally had two games today with 20-30 dodges before the game finally started. With the new system dodges and the normal troll dodges, I sat in que for over 90 minutes more than once today.

It seems that the new system is completely geared towards high elos, socialy stimulated people, in general. If you're that anti social, "Lone Wolf" type, and you're brave enough to solo Q in higher ELO, say goodbye to that LP!!! Matches are now filled with PUGS VS PREMADE heavily stacked teams,that are all in voice, whilest you are stuck with the shen that rage quits 5 minutes, because "our crappy jungle doesn't gank". So why would you solo Q? ....You won't, makes absolutely no sense to do so...be social....get a ranked team together or don't play league.

GGWP SoloQ.

Rito has casted some pixel magic fairy dust spell on all of us, with their ....oh so fancy new matchmaking cosmetics...making us forget about reason number 2 completely...there is alot of vet gamers in this community and they have all seen what PREMADES do to PUGS. Does this not feel like thee age old honor grinding pub stomp groups? WoW is back...in MOBA form. Not to mention that the matchmaking screen eats up nearly 5x more computer resources to run, with its quadratic algorithms, blinding us with their sparkly pixel magic of forgetting. It's no wonder why the client crash count on champion select is off the charts. RIP anyone to all those poor souls that play this game on potatoes.

Everything about the new look...reminds me of hearthstone. For some reason.... ew...ew...ew...just ew. Sure, it's pretty.. But this game prevailed through great game mechanics and not system heavy flashy pixel crack. Rito. If you would of spent a tenth of the time and resources from creating the new matchmaking system, onto creating skins that are worth your customers money. (Rather than just changing the colors of the champions in creative ways...aka....ooooo pink nidaleeee......totttz challenger....) You could have provided some actual designs that wasn't manipulating old code and give the public something new and cool. (You can barely see the pink mark above their heads now……you’ve actually gone in the other direction of visual clarity on this pink madness) (Pulsefire Ezreal, for example. There are a few others...that you can tell had a real artist behind them...whilest most are just a joke....how overwhelming easy the changes must of been to use the exact same code and just change green variable values to pink.....so much fail skins....with so few awesomez. If you are going to do pixel crack...do it right. Why not spend some of that time and effort into balancing the game beyond the keystones? A great majority of the champions are worthless and mediocre, at very best. I get that you're trying and I've watched the ALL CHAT videos, with that guy that wears the ugly cardigan sweaters...doesn't know jack about the game and you can tell that. Why not get the pros involved again with the game balancing? After all, it is how you were able to create such a beautiful game in the first place.
RIP all ignored champions....that will never be viable in time for the start of Season 6.

Rito, please try and convince us that you are not just all about the money…..with changes that actually make some logical sense. End of rant....for now.... Rant Disclaimer: I paid little to no attention to my grammar in this rant...as most of it was done with furiously intense key strokes….. All grammar Nazi’s may check their bag o flames at the door.. kthx. I would love to hear what your thoughts and opinions are…

Buh bye now

Dynamic

Dread Pirate Jah1/15/2016, 10:59:47 AM2 votes

Not to mention...that 80% of their champion pool is completely and utterly worthless rolling into season 6.

GGWP

RIP SOLOQ

I will misss theeeee

Veszeth1/15/2016, 11:20:17 AM1 votes

Estimated wait 0:00..actual wait..hows next wednesday?

Maximum Morde1/15/2016, 11:35:39 AM1 votes

I love this new champ select. Pick intent is a trolls dream. Now I can see if that douche on my team plans to give me a free loss by picking a teemo, yasuo, or donger, and ban it.

Dread Pirate Jah1/15/2016, 12:26:33 PM1 votes

I am with you morde...allllllllllll the way. lol