This game's glaring problems

Aria·2/13/2018, 4:01:48 PM·50 votes·2,079 views

I'm going to be explaining in short why I'm really frustrated with the game recently, and I'll do it in a concise way so there won't be too much detail for the sake of keeping this relatively short. That said, I'm not going to be skimping out on the core principles of what I'm saying here. The boards are full of "I quit" threads more than ever, with more anger breeding anger over and over again.

  • AD itemization. ADC's are fine as they are, but their items are far too efficient and overloaded. They have decent early games, great midgames and godly lategames. Throw in some lifesteal and they have sustain too, and you can't touch them in fights. Not to mention the horrendous amounts of protection and peel for them, it's as if the game is centered around them. **Statik Shiv in particular is the most problematic. **

  • On the reverse spectrum of this, Assassin itemization. Assassins have been gimped for the longest time, and the very, very few ones that do manage to work only do so because Duskblade is so good. Everything else was removed and they've been hardcore nerfed- most are unable to deal with ADC's, their primary targets, at all anymore. There is no point to playing an Assassin over a Diver anymore, and versing a lot of damage, Juggernauts can fill the role as well. I've been 1v1'd by a Twitch simply because he had lifesteal as Assassin Kayn with my full combo, and we both had full build. To summarize my whole post about this topic, "You know there's a problem when oneshot montages barely feature assassins and they're mostly ADC's now."

  • Riot's attitude towards their playerbase. It's so high-horsed and egoistical, and they barely address any of the things we've been asking them to. It seems like they can never, ever admit they've made a mistake. It simply feels like we're talking to the wind, and while they obviously cannot address everything, they barely address ANYTHING. It seems like as long as they have people buying RP, they don't give a shit what you think about balance. And this is true, they're a company- but they clearly have no devotion nor care to their playerbase.

  • CertainlyT is a perfect example of this. Designed 6 champs, 3 of which were insanely overpowered on release (Zyra, Yasuo, Thresh), another one who grew up to be super oppressive (Kalista) and one that was so one dimensional that it took them forever to rework him, because his kit was just so one-sided (Darius), along with now Zoe who's been getting complained about for centuries. Furthermore, given his involvement in the Mordekaiser rework, it's VERY CLEAR that this man does not take feedback nor give a shit. Except look at the most frustration players experience across the board- how many normal drafts do you have with a banned Yasuo? Nearly every second game. Zyra's oppressive to play against now, as if you don't focus her and her plants instead, she's alive and is going to kill you. If you focus her, her plants are going to kill you. Darius is still mostly one-sided in lane, unless directly counterpicked, there's no inbetween. Every champion he's made bred frustration of all kinds and he doesn't give a single shit about it, nor does he take feedback at all, he simply keeps doing this.

  • Autofill. Instead of letting us wait 2 minutes, we can instead have the GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE of being thrown into a ranked game with our Support being autofilled, whilst theirs isn't, has a major Support champion pool to counter our botlane, and much more experience. We're losing that game. You're forcing players into a far less than favorable situation right as Champ Select starts. This wastes 40 minutes of my time, rather than the 2 I'd use to queue up for a game where everyone wants to play their lane, at least.

That can sum up the root of all of these problems. Bad design choices that are egoistically defended by Riot and little to no interaction with the playerbase. If you want a good example of this, look at the Blizzard forums- Blizzard admins and mods frequently. The only big problems with the actual game are ADC items and perhaps Tanks beating out Bruisers and Juggernauts alike easily and then providing more than either of those could to teamfights, but that's it for the gameplay side, more or less.

Riot not ever responding to their mountains of mistakes and bad design choices is what really frustrates me, and a lot of people I know.

71 Comments

MalrothDragonia2/13/2018, 8:22:46 PM14 votes

I would recommend taking a look at the red tracker. A lot of what you're complaining about is on their radar and they are addressing it. Meddler will be talking about ADCs this week, Zoe is about to be uber-nerfed.

CertainlyT has made some of the most popular champs in the game, which means he must be doing something right, even if tuning is off for a lot of his champs. That probably bc it's hard to gauge the power of unique kits that don't have comparable kits to compare them to.

( If you think zyra is a balance problem you don't play zyra. Thresh's kit is one of the best designed of almost any champion, and even if he was 'busted' on release, he's fine now. Yasuo can be frustrating to play against, but he is one of the most played champs in the game, even when he's nerfed to hell.)

Autofill isn't activated when you would wait 2 min more, it's activated when people would be waiting 30+ min more. It's necessary, as much as people hate it. If you can't play all 5 roles don't play ranked, and in norms who cares? Learn some new stuff, or play a fav champ as kill-lane supp.

Riot is one of the MOST communicative companies in the industry, so I find your complaint that they never address anything hilarious. It may not get changed on the timeline you want, but all you need to do is look at red tracker over time and see that all the complaints are on their radar and they're trying to make the game better.

yoshi27902/13/2018, 5:14:04 PM12 votes
  • ADC itemazition problems: A lategame class has cheap items...

  • Assasin problems: No comment because I have no idea about assassins. IMO lichbane + hextech or duskblade is the only thing working right now

*Completely agree

*Again, Agree

*Agree, and especially in high elos this problem is huge. This sucks

JoeMG2/13/2018, 4:48:28 PM11 votes

A glaring problem, you say?

Cassiopeia

Raiyza2/13/2018, 6:29:02 PM8 votes

You forgot to mention matchmaking. I'm so sick of getting placed with unranked players. I have over 2000 games on my account. I'm getting paired with players with only a few hundred.

That. Fucking. Sucks.

AquariusGine2/13/2018, 8:45:25 PM5 votes

High-horsed and egotistical.

I couldn't agree more.

no to toxic2/13/2018, 8:22:17 PM3 votes

I don`t get the complain about auto fill. You are basically getting mad that a player who sucks at the game sucks in another lane. Say what you want but a auotfilled top main being support and feeding is not the fault of him being autofilled it´s the fault of him being bad at the game. You can´t even argue against it since you saying that it´s not okay for people who are bad at the game to lose, makes you look like a communist.

Blue Moon Wolf2/13/2018, 8:36:51 PM2 votes

It seems like they can never, ever admit they've made a mistake. It simply feels like we're talking to the wind, and while they obviously cannot address everything, they barely address ANYTHING.

Could not agree more. I can not count the Wukong posts that me and others have made, including asking Rioters like Meddler and such to comment on him, with nothing to show for it aside from a comment saying "he comes up some times in meetings" which could mean anything. Can't help but feel like Riot is just ignoring us cause he's not profitable enough for them to care.

Chromatic Eagle2/14/2018, 12:14:28 AM2 votes

Riot's attitude towards their playerbase. It's so high-horsed and egoistical, and they barely address any of the things we've been asking them to. It seems like they can never, ever admit they've made a mistake. It simply feels like we're talking to the wind, and while they obviously cannot address everything, they barely address ANYTHING. It seems like as long as they have people buying RP, they don't give a shit what you think about balance. And this is true, they're a company- but they clearly have no devotion nor care to their playerbase.

They admitted to mistakes several times. They just don't always admit it when players demand it.