How to fix the PBE
I feel as if i am not the only one who feels that the PBE is completely useless now. Its suppose to be used to help balance items, champs, and to test new ideas so that Riot may incorporate it in order to make our experience better. However it has come to mine and many others attention that the only reason the PBE exists is for players to play new champions early and to also use free skins so they can mess around. I do enjoy the League videos that are posted when new things for League are released but other than that PBE stands no real purpose and i have a few ways to improve it.
You need to have a max capacity of players that are dedicated to actually finding problems with new items, champions, or things like HUD and other additions. And if the players dont point out a blatant imbalance they should be kicked off PBE so that new players who actually care to better the experience for all can play on PBE.
The reason i bring this up is because too often new champions and items/builds are released on PBE which is suppose to be where the items are tested but they are clearly not. For example: The new
should not have been released. Let me irradiate that point: THIS ITEM IS BROKEN BEYONG BELIEF. The Meta is completely dominated by this jungle item. In almost every ranked games junglers are banned because if you get a jungler who is strong with this item you basically win the game once it hits 30 stacks. We see this so much with new items. Another item was
. This one item alone literally changed the jungle and made it go from strong, damage oriented junglers to a shit storm of tanky insanely over powered shit brick houses that just stand there and do a million damage while being tanky.
also should have been checked. We knew AP
was strong but thanks to runeglave it made him 15 times stronger. WHY WOULD YOU MAKE AN ITEM THAT TURNS AD ABILITIES INTO MAGIC DAMAGE LIKE WHY? It boggles my mind that they thought this wouldn't be abused or discovered. Yes i give props to whoever decided to build runeglave Ez but good lord was that champ broken. The reason AP ez was good was because all of his abilities were based off ap BESIDES his best/longest ranged skill shot which was his Q which completely changed when runeglave was added.
Champions have had this problem too. When
was released on live he was insanely broken. Like i have no idea how Riot thought this was okay. a champion whose passive grants a 80% slow, has a 70% ap scale, and speeds him up by 80%? Like what is that? Thats ridiculous. On top of that he had a no mana cost ulti that was a insta nuke and also gave him most of his health back, a Q that did a ton of damage, gave him passive stacks, and costed like 0 mana. His E+Lich was an insta gib, so strong that he could Q-E most squishies and kill them instantaneously at any point in the game. A W that has the range of a bard ulti, doesnt show the radius until hes already on you, slows/suns you for 2.5 seconds and gives him a super shield and also grants his auto attacks to deal 5% of a units health when below 30%. HOW DID YOU LET THIS GUY THROUGH PBE?
Ill tell you why, YOU DONT GET REAL FEEDBACK FROM THE PBE PLAYERS.
So riot, either you tell the PBE players to give real feedback or you just get rid of the PBE all together because clearly its not used for its intentional purposes
TL;DR PBE is not used for intentional purposes, riot doesnt get legitimate feedback from their players because they release so many things that are just broken or incomplete. Riot needs to fix this.