People give Riot a lot of shit. I give Riot a TON of shit. But they have massively improved the game since its release.

The only problem is that a lot of the issues we have had for years in terms of balance, inconsistency, and bugs linger for entire SEASONS before they bother fixing it. Readability issues. Ability consistency. Why can Ryze snare me after I flash? Why do I still die from an auto when I flash? Sure it's fun as trynd to crit someone as they flash and they die but it feels HORRIBLE for the other person and it's simply due to the mechanics league runs on.

The client is complete and utter horse shit, unoptimized, primitive garbage. Luckily they've been working on the new client (which finally hit Alpha) but does anyone remember Wintermint? Literally a better client than the Alpha client and it was available for a short time, several years ago. Riot took it down, citing "security" reasons. Nothing ever came of the so called employment of its' developer.

Then you have the efficiency at which they do things. They are a MASSIVE company yet take fucking AGES to do ANYTHING. It's CRAZY how inefficient they are. It would be a nightmare to work there, despite how fun it sounds, because of the alleged disorganization.

Riot can do a few things in order to make League great again.

• Dedicate teams to fixing certain bugs/readability issues EVERY patch. Yeah, there's a few bug fixes in most patches but for the most part, they disorganized, at the bottom, and are to undo something the previous patch broke. There's huge compilations of bugs from every champion and role in the game all over the place. Like Reddit, for example.

• Dedicated team to do sfx readability/consistency overhaul. This would be like the skin rebalancing, but instead redrawing/adjusting the SFX of spells to better match their hitbox. There's zero reason that if I'm sitting well outside of Illaoi's Q box that I should still be hit. It's inconsistent and misleading as fuck. Same thing with Ekko Q. That hitbox is ridiculous. Oh, and the truck that Morgana throws? Let's be honest, that shit needs to be slimmed down or actually make it look as plump as it actually is. You know she thicc. I know she's thicc. Show it off. Nidalee Q is a good example of what this would accomplish. It was adjusted numerous times and it now fits the hitbox almost perfectly. If you look like you dodged it, you did.

• Minion block. I don't know what else to say. Nothing is more frustrating, inconsistent, and tilting as minion block in league for melee champions. It impacts csing, trading, lane control, damn near everything for melee champs and it's unpredictable.

Better/totally not completely shit tutorial. Pretty much self explanatory.

• Inefficiency you guys just take too damn long to do anything. Yeah, it's not easy to do everything as fast as the players want, and you're often right when it comes to letting the dust settle before buffing/nerfing due to recent changes. And that's okay. I'm of the personal opinion that Ryze is super underrated right now. He's strong early and mid but afaik weak late. And you haven't jumped the gun by buffing him massively. Good on you. The problem is where we have the above issues and you've done pretty much nothing about most of them. Great, you're working on the new client. Or, you could have let us keep wintermint so we wouldn't have had to deal with this abomination of adobe air for 6 years.

Point is, you guys have the employees to do everything you need to do. Your E-sports goals aren't going to be met if you can't

Positive things

Balance. Yeah yeah everyone's currently eyeballing me while hovering the downvote button. But the diversity of champions in league has never been greater. I've played since season 1. Diversity has never been greater, plain in simple. For the majority of league's existence, you had 2-3 dominant champions in every single role. You had like Karthus, Ori, Syndra, in jg you had a meta where it was J4, Lee, Kha'zix (maybe Vi.) Etc. In league, even solo queue, you can pretty much play any champion that can reasonably fit your role. Top lane you can play tanks like Sion or Malphite, even assassins (though I wouldn't personally recommend it) or scaling top laners. Literally anyone can jungle, unlike the beginning of last season where you probably would get very close to being executed if you weren't udyr or warwick.

You have a few outliers, namely champions that simply do too much too well (utility-dps-adcs, tanky-bursty-fulltanks, bruiser items on non bruisers, etc) and there's always going to be champions that are a little too strong due to champion balancing, but overall you've done a good job in ensuring diversity. Yeah, nerf GP. I love 'em to death but he fucking needs it.

Progress again I give you guys a lot of shit because you take FOREVER to do fucking ANYTHING. BUT AT LEAST now you're actually making progress. You remade summoner's rift like twice, kinda crippled the other modes but eh who plays them anyway. You're fixing the new player experience by seeding smurfs quicker, made runes cheaper, and will deliver some kind of rune-rework once the new client comes out. You introduced hextech crafting, which is a huge thumbs up in my opinion and should replace any lost income from the rune rework. Give everyone 20 pages please. Seriously.

TL;DR Rito has improved the game a ton and deserves credit for that, but now it should work towards polishing issues remaining from years ago, gradually, every single patch.