Preseason is a time of EXPERIMENTING!

nickyboyza··14 votes·820 views

So the board is filled with THIS IS OP, THAT IS OP, WTF DAT CRIT, OMG NERF PLZ, AD ITEM TOO STRONG! Calm down guys, its only preseason. This is probably the most chaotic time where a lot of changes happen. So be patient, Rito is going to start cleaning up things soon. Meddler actually answer and explain a lot of things so read them. Here's the link to his profile: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/player/NA/Meddler

It's also actually pretty funny watching all the players who are confused and dazed at the new items, the amount of dmg some champions can do, and also forgetting that all the mastery pages have been reset. Its about the time of experimenting so just relax, chill, and play the game. PS: I recommend you guys to try and play mages right now since most team will be having 2 or more adcs so it is really fun to burst down these squishy people with long range Lux or burst Leblanc (And the mastery for ap is actually not as bad as people say)

17 Comments

kaellidor2 votes

preseason is indeed about testing. the problem is that riots version of testing is permanent implications. they tested the new jungle and left it almost exactly the same when it launched. if they follow this trend do you think people have a fair outcry or do they not deserve a voice against changes that will most likely be permanent?

Extvia3 votes

The changes are permenant, the numbers are not, stop fucking whining, the changes themselves aren't even the problem, the numbers behind them are. Fuck. [slayer-pantheon-rainbows]

kaellidor1 votes

how is it whining when I bring up a valid point?

Owltears2 votes

I think a lot of this could have been avoided if Riot listened more to the beta testers and pbe boards, which to my understanding they didn't do much cause i saw seeing people upset about the changes/ wanting to clarify stuff on them for a while. If they would have listened they would have avoided so much backlash, instead of focusing on worlds,worlds,worlds,worldsharrowingworlds worlds worlds.

They should have split their work force into, worlds, harrowing, and this update, that way something might have calmed down the boards from exploding if people didn't feel like they where being ignored.

Gare Jordans2 votes

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I think a lot of this could have been avoided if Riot listened more to the beta testers and pbe boards, which to my understanding they didn't do much cause i saw seeing people upset about the changes/ wanting to clarify stuff on them for a while. If they would have listened they would have avoided so much backlash, instead of focusing on worlds,worlds,worlds,worldsharrowingworlds worlds worlds.

They should have split their work force into, worlds, harrowing, and this update, that way something might have calmed down the boards from exploding if people didn't feel like they where being ignored.

Last time Riot listened to PBE for balance, Skarner happened and had to hotfix nerfed consecutively.

The Whamboozler1 votes

Maybe we don't want to spend the next two months in awful, one-sided unfun games? Maybe we just want to play and have fun? Maybe "experimenting" didn't need to be shoved down our throats to make the game pretty unplayable for people?

Ralanr2 votes

How do you expect changes to be made? Is not every preseason hell?

Betoldia Prime2 votes

true that!

Mickey Donnerudo1 votes

If you consider that there are 67+ MILLION concurrent players of LoL, it becomes pretty damn significant.

I can say, "Riot Games is fucking with the entertainment source for 67 million people around the globe EVERY DAY" and that statement would be TRUE.

Crazy.

Of course we can expect fresh and new. But you know, maybe not make things so downright bonkers (and so obviously broken)?

Ralanr1 votes

Meddler has pointed out that they are sacrificing short term balance for long term balance. Laying down foundations.

Extvia2 votes

fuckin #rekt

The Queen Viper1 votes

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How do you expect changes to be made? Is not every preseason hell?

Something that doesn't turn the whole playerbase to a bunch of free beta-testers would be nice... and we have plenty of pro players around the world they can consult and ask about the things they want to implement.

Well, anything pretty much would be better than this current "model" where all things get fuked up during the preseason and then RITO tries to balance them the WHOLE upcoming season and when everything finally gets somewhat balanced, they get thrown out of the window at the end of the season and we are back to square one.

LatetotheRace1 votes

Preseason giving me aids bro.

MoonBlade921 votes

Fantastic tip bro. And what do I do if I want to play a Jungler? Or just don't want to be forced to play a long range mage because I never liked them before? People don't like this preseason because it made certain characters FAR too opressive, and it was obvious they woudld be far too opressive, but hey, can't know for sure intill it's unleashed on the playerbase, right? I hav had two, TWO whole Normal games without Graves on the enemy team. Won one, lost one. But I lost every time when I had to deal with an ADC whose Q deals more base DMG than Veigar's W, and whose AA's deal double DMG to Melee champs trying to fight him.

Then we see some nerfs on the PBE and it reduces his 480 Q to be 430 or something. it isn't a fun time for anyone but the Graves player. Of course, other people may be luckier, but for me this patch has made me feel like I was being punished in several ways (less gold for the jungle, ADCs early game is now stronger so they aren't as easy a gank, item costs up, etc, etc), all to the howls of ADC's "Junglers had their meta! You can't complain." etc, etc. I gues you should blame the unhappiness with this patch by the factthat ot everyone can play an ADC, so they end up having less fun (mages feeling they are cheated out by ADCs nuking harder and STILL rightclicking good, as well as the increased item prices, supports not liking the ward timers increase and top laners not liking having to deal with Yasuo and Trynd outsustaining them due to their nutty synergies with a mastery).

tl;dr when you clearly buff only a SINGLE subset of the playerbase and everyone else gets nothing or ends up being outright WORSE, it's expected there will be backlash, and no amount of "It's preseason guise!" will change it. After all, for all we know, most of these changes are here to stay. Also, how on earth is this preseason as remotely as bad as Preseason 5? Only people complaining there were freshly minted junglers about how they keep dying after their 3rd camp, and the subset of "I want my paultry Dragon gold!" as far as I remember...

Mordepool1 votes

Experiment: Play mage with new masteries+ old item build Get destroyed by Yasou

Play mage with new masteries+ new item build Get Destroyed by Tryndamere

Play mage with different masteries+ new item build Get destroyed by any Marksmen.

Conclusion further experimentation not required to realize a heavy disparity between AD and AP

Further more. I could use a hug

The Queen Viper1 votes

I though PBE was for that... but meh, call me when you have done your beta-testing and this "Season 6 early access" bullshit.

Meanwhile, I have better games to play. Sure, I know there are more people playing on Live servers and they get more feedback ... but the thing is, I don't get paid to find bugs and ways to make their game balanced.

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