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If Season 9 continues as this Preseason is showing, I might as well call it quits

Forhonor321·11/25/2018, 9:36:35 AM·45 votes·13,134 views

For what this preseason is right now, it just feels awful. Nothing about what the players wanted to be addressed feels like it was taken. Nothing has changed. Turrets I still feel can go down pretty damn quick, even with the plating on, and the amount of gold they give plus First Turret Blood still being a thing just adds more to the snowball effect. In fact, how many people were thinking/wanting turret plating to actually just be a second health bar over the original, instead of just acting as the one and only health bar throughout the first 14 minutes and any damage it took carries over to it's weaker form? I sure as hell thought so!

What about runes? Does the new ability to choose your bonus stats make things better there? Not really when there are only a handful of runes that are worth picking. Those being the raw damage boosts (which stack), the attack speed upgrade, or the armor and MR runes that barely give what they did in their former selfs unless you pick the same one twice. The bonus health is too damn tiny and doesn't scale well at all and the CDR is the same, getting your max by level 18, which is a miracle if you can make it there since games still feel like stomps half of the time. The only time you'd take the CDR is for combination of the Trancendence rune to get that little extra damage off. Health is just worthless.

Oh, and how can we forget about the reworked Dark Harvest? Yeah, now instead of farming up souls over the game to get that glorious massive damage, you just need to hit an enemy at half health, either wait a period of time to get it back or better yet kill someone to instantly get it back and become a menace by the mid game, which at that point you're already winning or losing.

So, to recap: turrets only feel tankier and last longer if you're lucky and grant insane amounts of gold if you take them down before 14 minutes, rune bonuses are lackluster and the reworked Dark Harvest is stupid, and combining this overall with the feeling that damage still feels too high.

...I want to like League again. Fucking dammit, I want to like League again! I want to play the champs I love without having to feel punished for picking them because I'm not making the big play maker/super high damage and mobility champs. I want to play tanks for the feeling of providing CC and being a wall in teamfights and not just be these semi-meatier damage Juggernauts. I want to feel like games aren't decided in the first 10 minutes of the game where the enemy snowballs and I can't leave for another 10+ minutes because my team still thinks it winnable, while I'm just becoming more and more miserable and demoralized in both this match and the game as a whole. I just hate what this game has become nowadays. And with my friend deciding to finally try the game out, I don't know whether I should stay and help him through this cesspool or just tell him to jump ship with me cause this isn't worth it anymore.

29 Comments

Tacosrock11/25/2018, 9:59:51 PM6 votes

Then call it quits. Seriously, I can’t stand how many of these posts get made when it won’t make a difference. No matter how much the two thousand people that use the boards complain, nothing is actually going to change because it’s such a small portion of the player-base. It’s preseason, first of all, and while not much may change after it, there will be adjustments to make it feel a bit better.

Go play a different game and have fun instead of moping about how Riot doesn’t care about you or state of the game. Of course they don’t! Their focus is mainly Asia right now because that brings in the big bucks.

Zoe The Loli XD11/26/2018, 9:18:15 AM5 votes

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Míellá11/25/2018, 1:10:28 PM5 votes

Since when is preseason showing how the real season is going to be? I don't know for how long you've been playing league, but every preseason, everyone just fucks around and everytime the game is just a complete fiesta. Riot adds new stuff to the game, which is often completly overtuned. ######(Like DH right now). But it will be balanced soon enough. You'll never see a balanced game in preseason. You gotta wait for a month to have a normal league game again. So for now, you'll just have to embrace it.

Silverfang Blade11/26/2018, 1:55:23 AM3 votes

I play braindead juggernaut champs like Garen, Darius, and Mordekaiser because I LOVE being that fuck-off beatstick that won't die. If I DO die, it was because I played like a dumbass, pushed when I shouldn't have, tried bullying someone for turret plating money and got punched in the face by the baking class nerd, or everyone on the top half of the map flipped out because I'm only two kills and twenty CS ahead, so all three of them bounce my lane to go put my face in the dirt :/ Most of the games I've played lately have been the closest games I've ever played on League in the last few months. One game even, I was losing lane, but we stuck it out even though our base got cracked, and then we made some smart moves that we dominio'ed into crushing teamfights left right and center after that, which led to the enemy team surrendering even though they still technically could have had it.

I think DH DOES need a looking-at, just to figure out how to bring it down to acceptable levels, the turret plating gold needs to go down a little (100G sounds fair to me), and they need to make the other turrets beefier so they don't collapse after two Demolish AAs.

Other than that, I've been personally enjoying preseason so far. If it isn't your thing, try something different in-game, like a new champ or a new lane, or resign yourself that League is changing, and has to so it can stay relevant amongst all the Battle Royale and Blizzard garbage :/

mack911211/26/2018, 1:31:05 AM2 votes

I'm really sorry to hear that personally I have found the preseason to be pretty great so far.

What is it about your perspective that is making you hate the game so much compared to me ?

I strongly do think though if you have it in your mind that you want to quit league then there really is nothing riot can do that will please you.

ModAcademy Kayn11/26/2018, 1:41:05 AM1 votes

I mean, this is fair. Sure, you're not a fan of the Pre-season at the moment, which is completely fair, but you're not damning it to the not-even-full-patch that it's yet to have. You're taking it as a notion of things to come, rather than a final product, saying that if this is how it continues to be, you'll be more than disappointed and likely call it quits.

That's a helluva lot more than all the other posts have been giving.

Rαy11/25/2018, 11:49:38 PM1 votes

I feel you. If League does not change significantly until pre-season ends, I already decided to pack my bags as well. After six years of playing.

I endured twelve months of utter frustration and can not take the shitshow my former favorite game has become anymore. I loved this game with all my heart before season 8 turned it into this braindead oneshot-fiesta. It is mindblowing what kind of unstoppable force is keeping Riot from reverting this pile of garbage. I guess it is the Chinese internet café scene and Tencent demanding to stay with unsatisfying, brainless twenty-minute oneshot fiestas.

It's okay, Riot. Just let it die already. End its suffering. Not that this game holds years of beautiful memories and feelings. It's not like you are destroying a completely legit hobby of people that gave them goals to achieve, new friends to meet, endless hours of fun. Yes, I am thankful for that. It was free after all. I was so thankful, I spent thousands of Euros on this game, sometimes just to show my gratitude.

Before turning the gaming love of my life into this abomination, just kill her already.