Just about every game is just a one sided shit stomp.
The first 6 minutes decide the entire game most of the time.
Scaling doesn’t work. It’s snowball or lose
I’m fine with faster games, but the current rout being taken for it is just stale.
Maybe I’m just bored and need to move on other games, but the current state of the game is just following a flow chart at this point.
Get ahead, choke the enemy out, win
Fall behind, bite the pillow, lose
Tr4shB4NSYST3M1 votesPretty much sums up season 9. Snowbally additions to the game like turret plating and CS bounties (to shut down the 1 person on the losing team who won lane and snowball the winning team even harder), as well as the absolute debacle that was Positional matchmaking and the revert which screwed up MMR across all ELOs are both to blame to some extent.
But even in season 8, which was IMO not a great season, it felt like there were more close games and individual players had more agency to impact the game. Season 9 I feel incredibly lucky if one out of 10 of my games are evenly matched/feel close, AND I PRETTY MUCH ONLY PLAY RANKED as far as Summoners Rift goes, which is SUPPOSEDLY matching teams of "equal skill level."
Games in season 9 are extremely un-satisfying most of the time, winning in a stomp is boring b/c it hardly matters what you do b/c 2+ of the enemy were massively outskilled and fed your team, and losing a stomp feels even worse b/c even if you and possibly one other teammate are doing well the rest of the team are just way too heavy and unless you're playing way below your actual elo you won't be able to carry them.
I miss season 7, back then it felt like individual players had a lot more impact on the game and it was much less about the "matchmaking coinflip," Honestly It makes me wonder what the NA population numbers are looking like this year compared to 2017 and 2018, because even with the fresh lvl 30 accounts in high silver MMR and all that Matchmaking was providing much more evenly matched games and even though riot has made changes to make the game more snowbally and easier to end for the team thats ahead I just Cannot believe that alone is the issue.
5 Dollar Holler1 votes{quoted} Games in season 9 are extremely un-satisfying most of the time
I hear this. I just played a game where the enemy mid didn't connect for 10 minutes, and when he did he fed his face off (ended the game 0-11).
But, because their jungler was a smurf (looked him up on op.gg, 100% win rate in Ranked this season), they obliterated us 4v5 anyway.
Zzzzzzz
Tr4shB4NSYST3M1 votesExactly. Games where you already won the matchmaking coinflip, whether by getting a higher elo smurf on your team or the enemy team getting legit new players, it doesn't make a difference how you play. And because the average (non-smurf, non-new) player's quality of play doesn't matter that much its led to people caring far less about trying their best each game because most of the time it doesn't make a difference.
The thigh guy1 votesExactly. Games where you already won the matchmaking coinflip, whether by getting a higher elo smurf on your team or the enemy team getting legit new players, it doesn't make a difference how you play. And because the average (non-smurf, non-new) player's quality of play doesn't matter that much its led to people caring far less about trying their best each game because most of the time it doesn't make a difference.
That’s one of the issues. Sure hard stomping enemies because you literally just got the better overall team is fun, for the first 15-20 times it happens. But after that yeah, it’s still kinda fun. But it’s the kinda fun that’s only really fun because you’re taking your frustrations of getting shit stomped because your team was skull fucked by your last opponents out on someone else.
Tr4shB4NSYST3M1 votesIdk, its more of a feeling of "relief" than fun, just like Phew glad that 0-12 first time quiyana mid was on their team not mine. Yeah sometimes some fun can be had in fights during the game but overall its just boring to win/lose like that. I have had more fun in Lost games that are the few actual close games this season than winning stomps.