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Live footage of RiotRepertoir openly admitting a serious problem in the game

341123545652·4/25/2018, 12:16:34 AM·45 votes·15,491 views

and proceeding to do absolutely nothing about it for almost 3 months now!

https://imgur.com/a/qVUSY

its like hey guys you know THAT REALLY SERIOUS PROBLEM PLAGUING OUR GAME RIGHT NOW? ... .... ..... ...... That game breaking problem that is capable of invalidating certain roles while making certain other roles appear overpowered? ... .... ..... ...... You know that problem where shields can stack up from like 10 different sources, alot of which are passive and dont even require any player action or involvement but also alot of other sources which are actives, have no cd, are point and click, and can instantly shield a champion for over 1k combined shields? ... .... ..... ...... Guys you know that mechanic in our game that lacks any form of counterplay at all but also requires extremely minimal levels of effort to enable? ... .... ..... ...... You know, that problem which was promised a solution in 8.6, even earlier I believe, and here we are at 8.9 pbe? ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... RiotRepertoir: ..... Meddler: .....

Lets nerf mages tho!

128 Comments

RiotRiotRepertoir4/25/2018, 7:08:49 PM40 votes

The game needs a lot of things. Better exploration around shielding, the champions that utilize shields, and the items that empower shields could get us a lot of gains. We unfortunately didn't come to a good solution that was of appropriate scope to get into the game before midseason, at which point it didn't make sense to try to also squeeze that into midseason efforts.

I understand why that explanation will be unpopular. I also would have preferred we came to a proper solution.

Alex h87214/25/2018, 12:24:09 AM26 votes

But they reworked Irelia around 8.6 lol, she has an anti-shield passive lol.

So they put a counter to shielding in the game lol.

(kill me)

ZJD1234/25/2018, 2:41:23 AM19 votes

Funny how addressing shields would have been like the best way to buff assassins instead of w/e clown fiesta strategies they have chosen to take instead.

ModWulf Helhammer4/25/2018, 1:39:03 AM17 votes

Looking into some heal/shield stuff for the 8.6 cycle. Unsure what the outcome will be

That’s not a guarantee. That’s a hesitant possibility.

It’s very possible that the things they thought would work ended up completely invalidating the entire concepts of shields. Maybe not. The point is that no one knows how this stuff went in testing.

Posts like these that twist rioter’s words into outright promises are why they are hesitant to share anything with us, because someone will do what you just did with this post.

k wìx4/25/2018, 2:25:31 AM14 votes

Telling y'all right now... The solution to shields is to make them naturally decay over time. Adds a nice skill gate, and doesn't make shields garbage. Worried about stacking? Each shield has it's own decay... So double shielding means it goes down twice as fast.

LVL99 Helper TK4/25/2018, 2:25:57 AM10 votes

BETTER NERF MAGES OMEGALUL

Scary Door4/25/2018, 5:36:49 AM7 votes

Yes, let's nerf shields, sure. Let's nerf coordination and punish supports or champions that have shields that are doing their job properly!

In a game where damage is off the charts let's make sure to nerf the one thing that helps to SLIGHTLY mitigate it.

If something doesn't blow up in 1 second then it can't quality as an LC$BigPlay!

This ToasterIQ meta that has hit the Boards for the last few years is something that needs to be nerfed real hard.