I realize the great and most important problem with current league.

Siegfriedx1··4 votes·356 views

It's simple but not short.

In the past you had more time and opportunity to make your skill and knowledge accumulate advantages through lane phase.

It actually came very clearly once I saw an old replay of me.

Think about that particular situation: you are playing an off meta pick that don't have the best stats this season. You have so many lane phase to work around and time to get stronger that you could adquire a very meaningful lead or wait for an specific power spike that would allow you to carry.

Because you had so much lane phase time to make your skills turn into advantage, a lot of one trick ponies would succeed even against the worst match ups because they had clear and meaningful opportunity to have their skill turn the table and stack advantage [even if they didn't have a meta pick].

Today we made lane phase faster and added damage to the equation in such a way that you have less opportunities to punish, to make mistakes and to try to showcase your skill. Because we are not rolling the skill dice 10 times, but like 2 times now, we can't see a true meaningful skill average in the result of the lane phase.

You have like, a very good top lane player getting ganked and losing all the opportunities of the world to showcase his lane phase skills.

In the replay I saw, I was in diamond 1 playing rammus top winning against a GP just because of skill, Today we have so many resources and options that don't require skill that this kind of thing was made almost impossible.

To further clarify, by skill i mean basically timing very well how to harass, farm, movement, use fog and all other common resources you can to your advantage.

3 Comments

Mcsquzzy2 votes

That's why jungle and bot is the most important roles currently. A successful gank early can equate to a lost Lane when there is not a large gap in skill between the players. Whereas bot is important based on is the adc doing well and kept alive by a reliable support. This dynamic can change though if the sup is a soraka with good decision making skills.

ChompyWulf1 votes

A significant factor in this speed of play is the new runes. Old rune system you could have some decent flat early value tank stats. Now? Nope. It's trash.

LegitBusinessman1 votes

I've been saying this for months and get downvoted into oblivion. Every trade is either 50%+ of your health or a summoner or a kill. It's cheesy.

Teamfights end in one rotation so there's almost no opportunity to showcase skill.

LCS season 8 is the most abysmally boring stuff I have ever watched.

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