Why does it feel like Riot is trying to intentionally make the game un-fun?

lazoot·8/11/2018, 6:45:10 AM·2 votes·824 views

I've been thinking about the state of the game, the new champions, LCS viewership etc etc a lot lately and it seems like there is something going on in riot games. when i first started playing (season 2 different account) there was all kinds of innovative new and fun things happening. AP MasterYi , AP Sion , full APKayle etc etc. ever since the new client came out though, it feels like all of riots standards for fun have completely changed and don't seem fun anymore. champ design seems like a big one to me. champions like Camille , reworked Swain , new Aatrox , Kayn , new Poppy ,Rakan , Zoe (fuck this champion in particular), all seem like they were designed to take the fun out of the game for anyone who doesn't want to play those champions. what is an ADC like KogMaw supposed to do against a Camille ? ward heavy and trust your teammates and pray she can't one shot you at 15 mins into the game. how is a Kennen or Pantheon supposed to counterplay the Kayn gank when jungle can reach level 6 before the solo later does? this sounds like sarcasm and frustration but this isn't a rant without thought or just off the cuff screaming and yelling. Zoe can roam top and put you to sleep from fog of war and then one shot you from full health and you won't see her until theres literally nothing you can do about it. and I'm not even talking about the amount of damage in the game, though i believe thats part of the problem, so much as how the kit itself is designed to take the fun out of playing any champion made before the new client was released (thats about the time i see the change happening. it may have started before or after but i can't tell you an exact time). i love playing champions like Pantheon , Volibear , MissFortune , KogMaw , and Kennen , but it seems like if i don't have the counter pick in champ select i may as well start the game as if I'm playing from behind and play the entire game that way hoping for a good team fight or for the rest of my team to carry me. this isn't to say that every rework and every new champion is this way, but i would say the majority of them definitely are. where is the fun in laning against Aatrox ? where is the fun in getting E-R combo by Camille from fog of war? or trying to play a dive champion and having Poppy press W and completely counter my entire kit then one shotting me against a wall? i get that there is always some kind of counterplay, but just from a pure fun and enjoyment standpoint these kits seem like they are discouraging it big time. i used to be a diamond player and now i don't even bother trying to climb because playing the game seriously is no fun anymore. i can fool around with troll builds in lower elo and either stomp or get stomped but at least I've had fun that game. i wish i could talk to a rioter about this because i really truly love this game, it just feels like all the fun is being sucked out of it, and i don't want to have to find a new game to play just to have fun in my off time.

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