people keep saying Riot is trying to appeal to the fortnite audience

Yea this is just complete bs.

They are saying "Because the game is so much faster-paced they are reaching out to this fortnite audience." Ok first and foremost. Fortnite has like the slowest TTK of any of the BRs out there.

Now onto league.

League of Legends has gotten faster in its TTK from S3. This is a fact. Zed back when he was new could not literally 1 shot you with a Q,E,Auto unless mega fed. Now a slightly ahead zed can do this. Sure. But is this a bad thing? High Damage forces you to play smarter. If you face check a bush. you are probably dead. In the past you could walk into a bush. get blasted by a full combo, and say "Nope" and flag drag your ass out of there as J4. Now a J4 will be killed for making a mistake like that. League has gotten harder. Not easier. High damage forces you into playing smarter and playing around vision making it actually a much more tactical game than in the past. And with the strength of the objectives on the field that game has become even more objective and team-oriented forcing it into an even more tactical game than it ever has before.

Every Season has had its "Thing". Now S2 was a joke, and S3 was the start of the heavily defined meta we know today, but they each had their quirks that no one wanted to deal with. S4&5 had stacking jungle items that created unstoppable monsters, as well as if you weren't playing one of the hard stackers, you were playing Vi or Jarvan. S6 was tanks. S7 was Literally getting killed in 1 auto by lethality jungle graves. and since then, damage has been on the general decline.

Damage is not the highest its ever been. Far from it. Damage has been on a general decline from the previous seasons. And while it's still fast it feels much better than in the past. People say tanks are "Too Squishy" But I don't agree. You shouldn't be able to dive into 5 people and stay alive for 10 seconds. If you as a tank yeet yourself into a group of 5 you should probably only live 2-3 seconds. You need to play smarter and build specifically to counter what the enemy team is building. Bruisers have it a little easier because of their damage output, but still, you explode if the entire enemy team focuses you. Which is how it should be.

I Swear people who say tanks are too squishy on the boards just don't know how to play tanks. You are a facilitator. You protect your ADC so he can carry you to victory. you don't yeet into 5 and leave your backline to die. your job is to lock down the targets that are going to kill your back line. and then from there let them right-click you to diamond.