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The new "Runes Reforged" completely destroyed League Of Legends?

EmranGotSwag··22 votes·8,807 views

I've played this game for over 2-3 years and reached plat multiple times with my accounts. I played this game to improve and have a higher understanding how to build a team, what to do etc. etc. The new Runes reforged is neglecting the old prefered playstyle since multiple champions will be completely unbalanced and some champions will be a vivid imagery and non-existent. Champions like Xerath Xerath, Varus Varus, Tristiana Tristana and tanks like Urgot Urgot would be unkillable machines with bonus shields, bonus damage and outbursting potential with little to no effort, to just get attack speed, bonus ability power from attack enemy champions.

Video games should be a place where you can improve and show your skills to your fullest potential and that doesn't neglect certain aspects of the game, so a lower minority can have a chance since they've gotten little to no skill potential and currently sitting in Bronze leagues! I'm currently a Plat player, but since the new update, playing the game has just been a misery and depressing, since the accurate description of the runes has little to no sense at all, and only favours a little to a few champions. Everybody will just play adc from now on and be unkillable machines with bonus attack speed and damage.

The old rune page was made to give you an image of how you wanted to play your champion and choose what you wanted and didn't and have an influence on your viewpoint of the game, and how you wanted to play it, without any other telling you, what you wanted and didn't, like I compelled before. And you should enjoy playing video games in your way, and don't destroy the game from the majority of the players and favour current little to no numbers.

We didn't expect the game would be destroyed because of the update. Since day 1 the update has just been a huge mess, where there isn't time for late game anymore and you can't win without having an outscaling champion. And I've have had little, to no pure chance of winning with my favourite champions without getting stumped

Sincerely a player from your game.

23 Comments

Davech10 votes

To be honest, I would say that the chaos is greater than ever before. I always had friends who complained about a patch or update and said they will never enter the game again. Yet they always returned in a couple of days. But it is different now. Even my 'serious' friends who enjoyed competetive matches far more than me (I am playing since season 2 and I'm diamond 5 since season 4) stopped playing intensively 2 weeks ago. Many said they just want to remember the game as good as it was. Some of them logged in a few days ago to check the new system. Not a single person liked it so many of them just uninstalled league. I'm not talking about 5-10 persons. I'm talking about 40. That's a larger dislike that I have ever experienced through the 5 years I was playing league. Personally I do not like it either. This 'development' will scare away players. I'm pretty sure. Even the vote ratio of this post is approx 30% like and 70% dislike. Never experienced before this scale of one-sided dislike from such a huge community as LoL has. Maybe the Yasuo/Teemo hate but those are just jokes compared to this. This. This is something that actually scared away many. Scary man. Scary as fk.Fiddlesticks

Chuckolator3 votes

agreed, i believe in their "game development" riot is doing what THEY like and not what the community actually needs. people have complained for a very long time about tanks, for example, and they still haven't found a solution, instead they preferred to destroy build variability like ap kog and mf and ap varus with their bullshit ADAPTIVE damage. and you can see yasuos with 510 ad, but you don't where is it coming from, and maokais raping the enemy tteam 1v5 with only tank items. its a total chaos. riot has no idea that a single tiny balance can shift the meta entirely. and with this massive update, league has become unfun. i am also about to quit league after 5 years and i still play sometimes, but i just don't enjoy it anymore.

TP4MyBungHolio10 votes

The new runes literally destroyed the whole idea of matching abilities of a champ and pre game planning to separate you from noobs. Instead its a freekin burst fest with tanks nerfed to oblivion. Nice way to totally destroy the game Riot. Uninstalling after 6 years soon.

Rhexus Draconis9 votes

"It is preseason, enjoy the chaos until its season 8"? Are you for real? Did you not see what mess the last 2 season were? The mastery keystones were a huge failure and now they made it even worse. There is a reason why there are around 10 to 15 champs that are constantly picked and a lot others completely forgotten. Some champions can't even pick much of a use off of this system while others can almost abuse it.

It is like riot's staff doesn't really play their own game or even think through about anything. It is yet again, just change for the matter of change instead of change in matter to improve and THAT always kills off games in the long run. I approve that they want to keep the game fresh, what i do not approve though is, if it completely unballances the game even further.

Instead of reasonable changes we get chaos once again. I also remember a time when riot stated "We will never interfere with the meta" and now they directly forces a meta upon us.

This is not the game a lot of people used to love and why we played it. To me, it seems they simplify the game further and further to appeal for the masses because guess what: I think they see a lot of people straight quit league of legends hence why they never published more data on playerbase for years.

With these changes you get to play more people for about a few days or weeks until people realize what s*show it actually is and just quit for good again. Similar to WoW before Legion. People came in after a new Xpac to see what it offers and after a few days, they are never seen again.

Scary Door8 votes

The new "Runes Reforged" completely destroyed League Of Legends?

I think "completely destroyed" is a stretch, but there is very little doubt that the Runes Reforged drove another nail into the coffin of enjoyment of this game. Damage creep has been problematic in League of Legends for quite a long time now, but it has been on the rise steadily since Season Five. Champion reworks, class reworks, new items and a few new champions have all had their various impacts on the game since then, some significant, some notsomuch, but changing the entire fundamentals of the game with a massive update like that definitely through everything into a tail-spin.

To be fair, the old runes/mastery system had it's flaws; paying IP for runes was about as asinine as it gets, but there were a lot of customizations you could do to your playstyle that felt good without being overwhelming and without too much or too little impact on the game. Sure, the old rune system had certain runes that were garbage, "noob traps" if you will, such as the "Time Spent Dead", but the new system has it's terrible runes also. Phase Rush is a bad one, but Celestial body is probably the worst... oh wow, you mean I get a WHOLE 100 HEALTH but I do 10% less damage in game that is all about damage now? No thanks.

Riot, there is too much goddam damage in this game and not enough mitigation. Games snowball too quickly and their outcomes are decided far too early on. Laning phase is over in a matter of 5-8 minutes, come on already... let's tune damage down a bit.

Ironically the only thing that doesn't do damage in this game are the towers, the one thing that SHOULD be a threat really isn't.

SuperJailWarden7 votes

After new runes LOL became unplayable for me. It had the worst community of all games and now with new runes I'm completely confused. Seriously nothing else worth picking than adc with lethal tempo or true dmg champs with lethal tempo. a 2.5 attack speed master yi or vayne with lethal tempo has 4.5 attack speed so 9 attack /2 sec. For vayne it means no matter what items you have, you die in 2 sec. Same goes on Master Yi and Irelia. Lethal tempo darius stacks 5 passive on you in less than 2 sec... What other keystone worth picking than lethal tempo. Kleptomancy for all ranged supports who can basic attack after poking with skills. That's all, all other keystones are worthless. You don't have armor early at the game, jungling is a nightmare if you don't have lifesteal.

ModWulf Helhammer5 votes

"since day 1"

It still fucking is day 1

Rosaka5 votes

...this game has lost every bit of fun that was left. I cant stand the new rune system and feeling like my play style is gone. I've been playing since season 1 and I guess it might finally be time to say goodbye to league :(

PotatoPlayer923 votes

nice now riven cant kill anyone top, any ad riven style have troble versus any ap top or any adc like vaynes and quins... i used to lose my lane but not as much as now...ggwp...

GIVE MY BAKC MY 30 S THUNERDBOLT LVL 1 RETARDEDS.SS....

ORRGOG3 votes

Yeah I quit about 2 weeks ago when I was Illaoi with Thornmail and Ashe killed me in less than 1 second. I'll start up again if they make tanking/healing what it once was. Until then I'm out.

NiamhNyx2 votes

Its the preseason, enjoy the chaos until its season 8.

CH Yolokin2 votes

Does anyone feels like that he used to deal some amount of dmg and now he is deling like 50% less with normal champs and not ADC. Also, the tank meta is gone but melting a 4k hp full tank in 2 sec is quinte not real.

Rito plz.

PotatoPlayer922 votes

Yup still trying but i cant win... My favorite champion is bulshit... Thanks riot i hope you get rekt ...

Dameshi2 votes

Season 7 was bad. Season 8 is terrible.

Cthulhy1 votes

dear OP, you do understand that League died as a "serious game" during season 2 (some would argue season 3) ... the game was already noob friendly, they just made it even far more noob friendly...

I personally do not complain much, games that take more than 15 minutes are a pain in the ass still, besides that, i don't have time to waste on runes or strategies so I want something as plain as my cellphone video games (and those, in terms are strategy are some times more enduring than League)

It's a fun game made for fun purposes... embrace it, have fun with it... or at least try to... the best thing riot ever did was banning flamers and even those are still around because every 4 other games i get a new "cancer" caller...

Tesla Effect1 votes

That and the new progression system revolving around the orange and blue essences.

PotatoPlayer921 votes

i dont know seems hard, but blue way its the way for eveythink in new runes becuse thunderlors is bad now, the adc is still worth and the ap build works for ad and ap adapative xd... so new runes arent bad at all after alll. i supose plp dont understand they used to like old ones so now its painfull with new ones...

56352699DEL11 votes

I am only a silver ranked player so I am not able to speak to the higher levels of game play. Yet, for the vast majority of us in the lower end of the skill set the game has lost much of its enjoyment. I understand Riots intentions, I just personally feel the runes have thrown the balance off the entire system. It seems through regular analysis of games that most games will either go one of two directions; One or more lanes will get completely dominated and the winning lanes on the opposite team will then begin to take over the game; or two the game will just balance out and stay even until mid to late where champions who gain an edge from the runes take full control and become virtually unstoppable. Riot has not ruined the game they have just changed it. As with every major change tweaks need to be made. I simply appeal to Riot Games to please evaluate League of Legends and find away to bring some balance back to the game. I don't want to just walk away from League in anger yet I do find myself for the first time in a while getting rather bored of the game due to its inconsistency.

GT500KR1 votes

i used to go to lans earlier this year where about 80-100 ppl would play league, its now down to like 10 the two hardcore teams that think they will get anywhere. They have all moved onto better things. Fortnite, new CoD, alot even started Magic the gathering with the new block starting. its just sad they are doing what blizzard did to WoW and dumb it down for noobs and new players. RIP riot.

Kornellius1 votes

I've been playing this game for quite a while. I don't play ranked at all cause I honestly hate competitiveness which is why I always play draft.

The game is ruined. (and no, I'm not being dramatic)

Even in normal games, it's not fun anymore. People just pick ranged champions with Press the Attack and just dominate lane (specifically top). There are only a few champions now worth playing that are completely broken with a particular rune build and the rest are pretty much erased. Honestly, I've never gotten annoyed at this game before this system cause I knew that when I lost, it was completely my fault because I didn't play it right or I didn't get the right build so I would just brush it off and try again in a new game.

But now, I actually don't feel like playing anymore games after losing. It really sucks the soul out of you. I went Fiora top recently against an enemy Gnar who still somehow managed to beat me in lane even though I was clearly more fed than him early game. I tried to play it right but it was no use. His passive along with Press the Attack made him hard to beat, especially since he built tank AND is ranged. It honestly demotivated me. After so many games I lost for god knows what , I felt like I was finally winning and STILL managed to lose somehow.

It's honestly tilting me beyond repair how annoying it is to go into a game and still somehow lose even when you're fed just because the enemy laner is playing a meta champion with a bs build.

I don't know what Riot will do about this honestly because I feel like they clearly don't play the game enough to realize how broken some of the changes they make are. It just seems clear that all you need to do now is take a ranged champion with Press the Attack and have a tank support and that's it, you win the game. Riot really needs to nerf the runes somehow because it's seriously out of control and this is coming from a casual player. I appreciate that Riot is trying to make the game easier and faster for people but it's just too much. People can't have a decent game anymore without it ending too early (mostly) or it makes the 35-40+ minute mark.

GripaAviara1 votes

Butthurt people that can't adapt. The old runes were a joke that I'm so glad they removed. Now the games are more dynamic. Sure it's still unbalanced, but it's preaseason

Fanekinha1 votes

1 frs day of S3 was clear that riot made bad calls....game was made with old runes system...+180 champs ....3 more years to balance the game with this new rune system...3 years of champion exploit....be strong or unistall ahahhahaahha

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