Top season 6 flaws in my mind.
Season 5 started from pre-season Kalista to fiora face scandal, and WCS huehuekaiser which provided hillarity and glaring balance issues that yet still needs to be fixed. Just hear me out what I thought was this years major flaws.
1: The preseason updates
Ah the preseason, I still remember when the ADC role that was bullied to oblivion for two whole seasons by katarina/akali and weedwick and mordekaiser, were offered uniqueness to their kits. But do you remember what was strong and banned every match at that time? Literally the very keystone warlords bloodlust. And this was the very beginning of a whole season of Yasuo bonanza. By the way, all of the major preseason updates are hardly memorable now aside
.
Even one update
was scrapped. Seriously.
2: Armor pen boiz
So, what was impactful in the end? Actually the minor updates stole the meta instead.
Remember this?
Instead of creating dps, burst champs on botlane just cheesed the whole crit-class adcs with their level6 multi-hit ults.
Lucian and MF were the first to start this. Although MF was already well-known to build cleaver on her build.
Lucian resulted into a high-burst. dps, high mobility champion. This made a huge impression on the whole community and every adc seemed to not build crit. Aside from ashe and cait perhaps.
3: Tank assassins/Tank mages/tank marksmen.
Every year, tank mains insist on buffing their kits so they can get the spotlight.
But somehow this years most largest derp stems from riot whom actually gave everyone tank stats.Too many items seem to just randomly have Hp tagged on them.
The result was a trend of champions with high % damage/dps and sticking power being tanky which stemmed over the year.
With
,
and now
, it seems this issue is yet to be solved.
This was unfun. But at least
this will be dealth with.
4: This.
This item created just ludicrous damage on every champion that could build it, with a cost efficiency of what...3000g when stacked!?
The return of AP yi was just the icing of the cake. The item was the only thing that made kog viable the whole season, and was a abomination to behold with near 60% winrate.
(I just hired a friend duo to pick kog and buy guinsoos and press W and stand still for me for this seasons gold promos, just to be sure I win.)
5: Regen tanks.
Ah, the days when mundo was running around with strength of the ages and nobody knew what this did.
It is just design wise failed for swain, vlad and mundo to be balanced on this item alone.
(I know morellos can apply GW, but they build visage so it hardly reliable than exes.)
6: Healbot raka Another healing issue. The Soraka update created one of the largest RAGE inducing matters over the whole community that the boards and reddit actually stopped talking about yasuo to actually discuss serious matters. Regarded one of the most uninteractive but stupidly impactful strategies deployed in this year. Healbot raka, which involves the soraka miles away from the allied adc and healing from afar, never to use other ablities made people foaming from their mouths since it was a granted stalemate or win. The hillarious part was that this strategy not only made enemies confused but also allied adcs as well since their support is just miles away from them.
7: Some reworks ideas seriously needs to listen to the PBE community.
By the gods...what on earth happened on the mage update.
Malzahar the most reliable carry nullifier was reworked into...something uncomprehendable even by malz mains.
A lot of feedback were imputted into the PBE boards, like how the barrier was just OP as hell, and how he deals no damage aside from situational terms of his bugs. Nerfed to oblivion, he is just now really unsatisfying to play.
This made a certain sentiment, stemming from the mord update that riot hardly listens that spanned for 3 times of major reworks.
Well, that is just about what I can recall...but the major issues is that these problems are hardly solved yet. I know that riot needs to keep some stuff, and the opposite vice-versa but, I really hope next season will be more fun than this one.
(Geez...I even had like 3 of my main champs like worst winrate for like 3 whole months
)
What are your opinions?