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Bard of new Champions

FanaticPharaoh··3 votes·734 views

I have been an avid league player for around three to four years now and I admit that in this time i have been filled with child-like glee over many of the champions they have added in this time(yasuo-loved him, vel'koz made me squirm when i saw his passive, rek'sai?- the game was changed), but all these new champions result in an ever increasing problem: there are only 28 viable champions (and that is being very very generous).

Out of a stable of 110+? champions why does riot keep adding new champions month after month after month instead of just working ( I dont know maybe a year) on getting at least half of these characters Diamond viable? I would literally crap my pants if i could play Varus again(you know it is okay for abilities to have ad and ap scaling right? and if it isnt....why is he a marksman/mage? He isnt either of these things now). I mean we could argue back in forth over the issue of this 23-28 champions, but please just look at the LCS: Only 26 champions were picked 10+ times in the Spring so far.

Maybe I am completely off base here, and I guess that is why I am making this thread. But isn't RIOT's anthem of this new season suppose to be strategic diversity? Why do i only see the same 3-4 adcs every game?(Riot must have a major crush on Jinx, she is underplayed for the moment but mark my words she will be the meta again) What are Yorick, Urgot, and Zac even still doing on the fields of justice. If they are unbalance-able (not a word) then send them packing. Maybe it isn't even possible to balance half of these champions and i dont claim to be any sort of expert on IN GAME DATA ANALYSIS.... but half?

Now, if you are only playing league for the fun of the game and not for the competitive team based aspect then ignore my comments and go on playing aram for the rest of your life. (Not entirely meant as an insult to aram). P.S. as an annoyance and it has probably been said a million times, but why is there still no mic software......League needs this more than any other online multi-player game.

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DaCush2 votes

Voice chat will never be added because there's supposedly some statistics that show voice chat amplifying toxicity ten fold according to Riot. There will always be 25-30 champs primarily picked on the LCS no matter what Riot does. And if you're not in the LCS or top 1% of the player base then those 25-30 champs that the LCS picks don't matter much because the weaknesses in champs are too small for an average player to have an effect on. People just act like it does cause they see it in the LCS and copy. The only true difference right now is in the jungle and that's hopefully about to change. As much as I play this game competitively, I play it more for fun and would rather them keep releasing champs. Not to mention champs aren't released that often anyways.

PalPlays1 votes

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Voice chat will never be added because there's supposedly some statistics that show voice chat amplifying toxicity ten fold according to Riot. There will always be 25-30 champs primarily picked on the LCS no matter what Riot does. And if you're not in the LCS or top 1% of the player base then those 25-30 champs that the LCS picks don't matter much because the weaknesses in champs are too small for an average player to have an effect on. People just act like it does cause they see it in the LCS and copy. The only true difference right now is in the jungle and that's hopefully about to change. As much as I play this game competitively, I play it more for fun and would rather them keep releasing champs. Not to mention champs aren't released that often anyways.

I agree, voice chat would be horrible.

PalPlays1 votes

{quoted}

I have been an avid league player for around three to four years now and I admit that in this time i have been filled with child-like glee over many of the champions they have added in this time(yasuo-loved him, vel'koz made me squirm when i saw his passive, rek'sai?- the game was changed), but all these new champions result in an ever increasing problem: there are only 28 viable champions (and that is being very very generous).

Out of a stable of 110+? champions why does riot keep adding new champions month after month after month instead of just working ( I dont know maybe a year) on getting at least half of these characters Diamond viable? I would literally crap my pants if i could play Varus again(you know it is okay for abilities to have ad and ap scaling right? and if it isnt....why is he a marksman/mage? He isnt either of these things now). I mean we could argue back in forth over the issue of this 23-28 champions, but please just look at the LCS: Only 26 champions were picked 10+ times in the Spring so far.

Maybe I am completely off base here, and I guess that is why I am making this thread. But isn't RIOT's anthem of this new season suppose to be strategic diversity? Why do i only see the same 3-4 adcs every game?(Riot must have a major crush on Jinx, she is underplayed for the moment but mark my words she will be the meta again) What are Yorick, Urgot, and Zac even still doing on the fields of justice. If they are unbalance-able (not a word) then send them packing. Maybe it isn't even possible to balance half of these champions and i dont claim to be any sort of expert on IN GAME DATA ANALYSIS.... but half?

Now, if you are only playing league for the fun of the game and not for the competitive team based aspect then ignore my comments and go on playing aram for the rest of your life. (Not entirely meant as an insult to aram). P.S. as an annoyance and it has probably been said a million times, but why is there still no mic software......League needs this more than any other online multi-player game.

Could you name the 28 viable champs please?

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