Nobody at Riot is taking responsability for the pathetic state of the game

iTaLenTZ··11 votes·883 views

Season 6 is been a huge disappointment. I don't even know where to begin. It is absolutely everything. From failed reworks, to useless turrets, from diverse meta to ADC only. The gameplay is frustrating.

List of champs who's current state is absolutely unacceptable

Graves is an ADC bursttank. Say those 2 words without laughing Fiora Just crying for another rework. When her rework was launched they said they were positive that they could use the true %hp damage again. How wrong knowing Vayne had been a problem during all season 4 and 5. Lucian His ult alone can 100-0 you and has a huge range LeeSin His mobility, stickiness and damage is unreal. Tired of seeing him in every game. The buff on his ult was uncalled for. He has always been one of the best champs in the game and always meta but I guess they had to make him more appealing in Silver to sell more skins.

  • Turrets. During season 5 players asked to make turret diving more punishing and make it a real tradeoff to dive. Instead the reload time and damage is neglible and they have the HP of a cannon minion.

  • http://www.elophant.com/league-of-legends/charts/role Overall price increase of AP items has been a joke. At this moment the AP midlaner is the most useless character in the game despite Meddler still trying to tell you inmobile mages are still on top which they never were in the first place. The AP midlaner has the lowest gold income, te highest item costs and therefor the LOWEST damage output.

  • Once upon a time you had to work as a team to protect your adc. Now every team has 3-4 adc's wrecking and permakiting eachother. I have been playing since season 3 and we never had a meta revolving around 10 champions only. The rest is either banned or unviable.

  • Meta is: top: Vayne/Graves/Quinn/Fiora jungle: Kindred/Graves/Quinn/Lee mid: Corki/Ezreal/Jhin/Zed bot adc: Lucien/MF support: Just anything that can peel/tank for the adc's

Only other champs we are seeing top and mid are champs that can help the adc's like Shen and Lulu

  • Once upon a time you could punish an enemy team for going full AD. Now they stack OP items and penetrate your armor like butter and they get the best counteritems in the game item 3153 item 3071 item 3036 item 3156 item 3139 item 3033

  • item 3075 Even when the enemy team has 4 adc's this item is still useless.

  • item 3046 12% damage reduction + insane lifesteal on your other items = 1000x better than 8% redcution Keystone Bond of Stone had and it got nerfed.

  • item 3930 Sated Devourer is still a degenerating item. Problem is turrets fall so fast only Yi is fast enough to get the stacks. Once games tend to last longer again the game will shift back to Sated Devourer and we will be facing Xin, Yi and Shyvana again dealing tons of damage while building tanky after getting item 3153/ item 3124

  • The boards is full with other examples

To me, the current state of the game represents lack of leadership, lack of vision, wrong people on the wrong place, lack of feeling with the game, lack of understanding and communication with the community and arrogant attitude from certain designers. If I delivered such a poor product for my company I would get fired 100%. All the changes have been top-down decisions. Nobody ever asked them to make the current changes. A small group of people changed the game for millions of players without interacting with them in any way. And now nobody at Riot is taking responsability for the choices made. Everyone is hiding is faces instead of openly discussing the fallacy of all their ideas. The lack of transparancy and humility is what made the game go downhill really fast. Instead of discussing the season 6 changes openly with the community everything was secretly forged within a small number of persons. Changes need to be openly discussed ** BEFORE ** their implementation rather than using the community and further degenerating ranked play by experimenting with every single patch. It leads to frustrating gameplay and an alienated community who will turn his back on the game. It is WRONG from Riot to think only them have the absolute truth and correct vision regarding the state and future of the game. This is all called classical implementation failure.

The only one who saves himself is RiotRepertoire. At least he is not afraid to start and join discussions and openly discuss and critize the current state and future of the game.

17 Comments

redniwediS7 votes

Who wouldn't be afraid of talking to this community? Let's be honest here, Repertoire took a huge risk and it paid off. People easily could have jumped all over him and started a hate train like they have for other Rioters.

If we want Riot to listen to us we have to be willing to listen to Riot first, and that means we have to be able to listen to opinions Riot might have that we do not. They are allowed to disagree with us, after all. They are people too.

iTaLenTZ3 votes

We are not involved in the decision making process at all. They have ideas, they work it out and then we get to test it in the PBE for bugs and then it is released. After 2 weeks they make minor changes after collecting data from normal and ranked games and they make the decisions. RiotRepertoire was literally THE FIRST RIOTER EVER to ask the community what they would like.

YumScrumptious963 votes

I think you need to remember that its Riot's game, not yours. They can do whatever they want to it, they have no obligation to you. Riot works to make the game enjoyable, its not always fun for everyone. It takes a lot of time to fix certain issues as best they can, not to mention the time to test these fixes.

redniwediS2 votes

Do we work for Riot? Do you work for Riot?

We SHOULDN'T be in the decision making process. It's their game, not ours. The fact that they make any attempt to take us into consideration is a good thing.

Their ideas are what they do. Just be glad they at least think about us from time to time, unlike many other game companies.

agbudar1 votes

yes but the thing here is that riotrepertoire makes an active investment to be on the same page as the people who play the champions he works on.

Cenobite Azaziel4 votes

You forgot:

Gangplank - 100% pick or ban in LCS EU Lux - Buff a champion that already is at 50% win rate. Ryze - 3 remakes?

Crossette1 votes

and then they nerf Ryze once and everyone acts like he's gutted

the new PBE cycle fucking makes him BALANCED, not USELESS.

Jbels1 votes

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and then they nerf Ryze once and everyone acts like he's gutted

the new PBE cycle fucking makes him BALANCED, not USELESS.

Ryze needs nerfs?

Crossette1 votes

I never said that.

I said he just got nerfs.

Cenobite Azaziel1 votes

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and then they nerf Ryze once and everyone acts like he's gutted

the new PBE cycle fucking makes him BALANCED, not USELESS.

He can still 1hit ko even if you are building off tank. If I was to complain about underpowered that would be Galio Urgot Aatrox Karthus

Earl Eulrich3 votes

first they had to actually acknowledge that sth is wrong with their game...still waiting for that one.

DeloricVI3 votes

So many champions are either worthless or unbeatable because their mechanics suck. All of these champions have no middle ground when Riot tries to balance them:

Zed Olaf Renekton Fizz Rengar Evelynn Jax

And don't point things out like eve not being good pretty much ever. She was horribly broke, and now no one plays her because riot had to nerf her so hard so she doesn't dominate every game she plays. Poppy was a step in the right direction; her old ult was holding her back from being much good as a champion. No one played Poppy because Riot couldn't make her mana costs and ratios reasonable, because her ult would make her so good, everyone would play her, or she'd be perma-banned.

Jbels2 votes

Why is this being downvoted? Like, half of one thing he said is true

YCitizenSnipsY1 votes

Probably because the other half are out right lies, who the fuck gets 100-0 by a Lucian ultimate. And since when are LW items considered strong and nobody builds Mercurial Simitar or Phantom Dancer. His idea of meta champs are also hilariously wrong.

Jbels1 votes

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Probably because the other half are out right lies, who the fuck gets 100-0 by a Lucian ultimate. And since when are LW items considered strong and nobody builds Mercurial Simitar or Phantom Dancer. His idea of meta champs are also hilariously wrong.

I was being very sarcastic

Penns1 votes

Why are you acting like adcs are op lol adc is probably the worst role in the game even supports are broken with FQC

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