There are so many errors in your knowledge about season one that i doubt you played during this time.
I am not sure about krit during the beta, but I can guarantee you that krit already existed in season one at the very beginning. I joined the game a week after the first season started( when the first iteration of the twisted treeline and with it 3 vs 3 was introduced. And the 3 ninjas got implemented, namly akali, shen and kennen(I am a ninja!))
During season one adc were played in the midlane, apc and support botlane, and two bruisers/tanks shared toplane. The jungle was not yet implemented in a way that it was possible to jungle with more than one or two champions. Warwick was the first and he made the jungle another keyposition, which resulted in a solo toplane.
Later on adc got pushed away from mid into the bottomlane, because mages were so much better in that position against adc. On bottom lane adc could also fokus on farming while the support was forced to become a wardslave with few items. It was the start of todays main positioning order.
evasion, the way it was back then, was only used by very few champions. The most memorable one was jax. The items that gave evasion were a minority as well. Think of the spellvamp items in that regard. It looked very similiar itemwise bevore it was removed entirely.
Adc were indeed the mainrole in that time. Thus creating the Atack Damage "carry".
Together with the apc they fulfilled the role of the main damage dealers in the game. Bruisers exchanged damage for survivability, while still being able to hurt you and tanks had the purpose of engaging or catching the engage so the dmgdealers were able to do their thing while they tanked incoming damage and survive.
"past seasons u had a lot more defense against damage. tank items used to give a lot more stats and a lot more stat efficient and damage keystone didn't exist. defensive masteries were better as well."
force of nature got removed, the warmog equivalent for ap damage. But other items got introduced. I don't know if items realy give less nowadays. I am pretty sure that the resistance-values you reach nowadays are about the same as they were back then. At some point stacking more of it is not costefficient anyway. ( if you already got over 60% dmgreduction, adding the same amount of resistance would only give you about 10% more)
With the changed masteries, the dmg of most champions got heavily buffed. Effects on items increased this effect and with all the penetration items you did not had bevore, it does fell like you have less. This is not due to resistance issues, but because they went up with dmg those past seasons, which is a misstake, as it made instakills more likely and tanks hardly survive long even with good armor and mr values.
"crit is unhealthy. needs to go away. its the reason ranged beats melee. "
the range> melee thing is because ranged is actualy ; ranged. It is an advantage in itself. In addition. Ranged is not always going to win. Sometimes a melee champion kills a ranged one. Sometimes it is the other way around.
It seems you are asking for melee to always win against ranged. Just like assasins are asking for an instant win the moment they 1 vs 1 anyone no matter how many errors they do. Or how players are complaining about mages bursting people down quick. ( if they could not do that, they would not be burstmages xD)
Now you probably don't mean that at all. You want the possiblity for melee champions to win a fight against ranged, if they play better than their enemy.
If you ask me. We are already in that state. I can't remember a time as adc in which I did not die to a melee based champion at least once,( unless they had no melee bruiser of course)
Adc is my least favored lane this past season, because it became so hard to actualy not die unless you got fed somehow and even fed you are more likely to die than any other fed champion. The role is unforgiving and relies heavily on a champ or two to back you up.
"now to speak of ranged vs melee top lane. thats a similar issue that can be solved similarily. reduce the damage output of ranged champions. problem fucking solved. give them a weakness for having such an uninteractive advantage"
I wonder if adc complained about this back in season one, when they got pushed botlane. Is a new meta incoming? It would be interesting to see a different one after such a long time. Maybe bruisers/tanks go botlane with a support or mage to get a nice combination of those two. ( This happened for a while btw.. But players were mostly trying out new stuff)
I doubt it is going to happen, though. The meta was up for far too long. I mean: here you are, complaining about a role playing on a different position and having success at it. Back then it would have meant a change in the meta. Now it sounds like a violation against a made up law that melee have to excel at toplane and adc are forced to play botlane or they get nerved.
"make ranged champion auto attacks do 25% less damage. thats fucking fair."
I wonder where you got the 25% from. Did you calculate it based on a formular, which you worked at for the time you considered this to be a problem?
My guess would be you just stated a random percentage that sounded fair to you.
Let me list you a few reasons why this would not be fair at all:
- The range of adc differs from one another. Taking equal dmg from all of them would favor those with higher range.( Unless you consider, that they are already balanced around their ability like it should be, but then again nerving them would be useless)
- Not all adc solely deal dmg with their autohits. Champions like kog maw or lucian have their dmg spread over abilites, while other soleley rely on aas. (ashe an draven for example)
This would favor the more spell based adc, as they would be less impacted by this change.
- You imply reducing the dmg off all adc, even the ones that are hardly played right now, because they are already in a bad state (like kalista). It would not be fair to hurt all adc because some of them are exceptionally strong. (Remeber the time of irelia nervs. Now apply her nervs to all champs that fell into her categories. Does not sound fair at all, does it?)
And this is coming from an anivia main who prefers any other lane, realy. So claiming I would be a biased adc is not applyable.
I hope I could make my point.
Good day Sir.
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