Runes impact early game too much, so we result in turning league into a deathmatch.

My overall goal of this post is to turn League back into a semi-strategic game.

The target viewers of this forum are the players that play ranked, flex, and normal/blinds. Not ARAM (sorry! I don't specialize in that field!)

When I first began playing league of legends, it was after years of playing WoW, and trying to dedicate time into Starcraft 1. League of legends was bound to be popular, it gave us the PVP craze we wanted from MMORPG"s, and the strategic aspect in terms of items builds and team play we got from Strategy games.

As we all know, the moba genre came from Warcraft 3, DOTA. We all decided to stick with Riot Games because they literally "beat" Blizzard in terms of game polish and fun gameplay, without all of the nuances. Many players are drawn to league of legends because of how it was designed. A video game that gives players that are "smart" an avenue to show off how smart we are with builds and strategy, RATHER THAN someone else "clicking" faster than we do.

The new runes took what little strategy away we had from us. Players every single day, complain about how much "damage" there is this season. But the biggest thing I think that was taken from us was the strategy aspect that the old runes gave to us players.

Let's say I want to play an ABILITY POWER champion, why can't I run armor against someone that is an ATTACK DAMAGE champion? All I have left for defensive runes is literally fleet footwork and stoneplate.

I beg of the community.. please constantly ask for changes.. and actually do something about our game. We all devote so much time into league of legends that it's absurd that we have so little say in what happens to our fate.

Keep asking for changes.. and actually do something about it. I'm just saying, you guys constantly beg for less damage. We don't get a response. But we continue to play...

We ask over and over again for changes. Riot literally spits in your face; they don't care if you leave. They cater to newer players, not the players that devote thousands and thousands of hours into the game.

We went from community led tribunal, to an automated system that literally has no effect on the game. The toxic community now has more power over the players that just want to enjoy a game.

We get USED as test subjects for individual "roles". Not a single ladder reset, resulting in god awful matchmaking.

MY FRIENDS ARE QUITTING THE GAME, NOT ME. I literally sit next to someone that I know; that is silver 4. He complained about AFK players in his game.. 2 games in a row. While I have to deal with players in Silver 1 that don't even care if they win or lose.

No one wants to make a ranked team anymore, because there is no ranked teams anymore.

Pro players don't play for real anymore, they already earn enough money and a guaranteed spot regardless of how good or bad they do.

Esports is fit for the best teams of the highest skill level. It's for honor not for money. There's a reason we all watch League of legends over World of Warcraft pvp. It's fucking boring and there is no skill. Now we watch Esports and are bored. There is no superior player in the laning phase. Even SKT don't care, look at their champion picks LOL.

If we have nothing interesting to watch or even play, why even stick around?