Complaints about League

Dear Riot,

League of Legends is something I play to have fun, it’s a recreational activity that I enjoy sharing with my friends. If you choose to continue to ignore me as a customer, that’s fine – it’s not my place to make decisions for you. However, time and time again I have been let down, and at some point I will simply put my money where my mouth is, and stop playing altogether.

I have frequently been disappointed at the options available for casual play in League. The overwhelming majority of casual League of Legends players just want to have fun, and a big part of that is finding interesting ways to play the game. Many of the changes to items and champions have been aimed at eliminated certain kinds of builds and play styles (RIP AP Master Yi and Tryndamere). I will grant you that some of these alternative builds could be extremely damaging to the balance of the game, but it's unnecessary to entirely remove them! Simply re-balancing those alternatives so as to make them unviable in a competitive environment is all it needs.

While some of these changes have been greatly beneficial to the builds and play styles that are most typically used, the destruction of alternatives is incredibly frustrating. It feels as if champions are being shoehorned into playing in very specific ways with little or no room to viably deviate.

Sword of the Occult is a perfect example of this. It creates a high risk, high reward play style, which is something that League severely lacks. It’s not overpowered or unfair, and the play style the item creates causes it to be unviable at the competitive level. It doesn’t affect the game negatively for the casual player or the competitive player so why remove it in the first place?

I ask that you please reconsider your decision to remove Sword of the Occult, and I urge you to look at providing alternative play styles to champions once more.

Sincerely,

Soaring Circus