First impressions on new preseason, (No rant, trying to be objective)

So, new preseason is out. New runes and changes to the IP/BE mechanics.

Before I go into the ingame impressions, I want to talk about, the new leveling and the new mechanics, how to get BE, which now replaced IP.

**It is to slow. **

The base gain mechanism for sure is. I cannot see into the plans of the developers. Maybe there will be events and quests, which revard with BE and I did not read all the published material, so they are maybe announced. But now how it is, it will, with the information I have, take ages to get new champions.

As someone, who is 23 and plays the game for fun in the evening after work, I simple do not have the time for exessive grinding, like I had maybe 3 years ago. (And be sure I grinded a lot.)

For that what I read on the forums, people feel scammed with this change in the ingamepayment. When I got these massive BE capsules, i bought only all those sweet 6300 IP Champs, i did not have the time to grind for last months. Now, there are still some more, which I did not get and I really hope, that there will be possibilties to get those BE Capsules, and that without buying them for real money.

So now the new Runes. Well, it is in my opinion too early to judge, but there are already patterns, that they changed the game feeling.

[sg-lux-2] I am talking about game feeling and contradicting my title this way..

So anyways.. 1: It is the time of the year again, where is strong. In a bad way he is. And he stands for all the Champs which build . It is a tickling time bomb with the new stacking runes...

When he or someone else with a similar build is in the game be prepared that at a certain point of the game, there will be a 770 AD ****Machine jumping at you from a Bush.

I understand that Rengar is a balance nightmare. If you only change a small aspect of the game, and he finds a way to use that, he will become a pain to play against (and with). If you make changes so massive, like these which happend with the preseason, it was, well, pretty sure this will happen.

Hide your wifes hide your kids ´cause as an AP mage and aint gonna save you.

This leads directly to the second point: 2:
**AD Champs in general seem to be a little overtuned. ** With the new runes and being around, they got a massive power-up. It is not like AP-Champs got weaker, it is more like they got stronger too, but AD Champs got even stronger, to the point where everythink else seems to be underpowered.

3: **Tanks and Turrets. ** It is an popular opinion, that turrets are too weak. I will support this.
There should not be a situation, where a ADC can happily ignore a turret in order to dive at lvl 4. Some seasons before the turrets were strong and dangerous. You were still able to dive at lvl 3 -5 (I consider this as low lvl, thus a lvl were it is very risky to dive) , but you had to be smart. You had to outsmart the one defending the turret and care not to be outsmarted. It was a rewarding feeling (additionally to the kill money and possible getting the turret) to pull out a good dive. As well it was a good feeling to outplay people when those fools tryed to dive your cc heavy support.

Now this is how it feels today: ADC dives you, you cc him for, let´s say 1,5- 2 Secs. Adc does not care cause he can take about 5 turretshots. (0,87 A/s has a turret now, i think) You die. The point is, that now the diving team has to be exceptionally stupid to get killed by a turret. What you, as the defender do to prevent them to kill them is not important. You will die And there is a big chance, that they can pull out this for free.

This leads me to the biggest problem with the tanks.

They are not needed.

A Tank has possibly 2 Jobs.

1: Engage and dive. Why should i pick a designated tank for this? Why should i pick a or a and go tanky, cause lets be honest, beside from some cheese build their damage is ignorable, when i can go with and murder half off the enemy team, while happily tanking 10 Towershots.

** Zone and Peel** A CC tank is not scary anymore. To be honest , when i want to zone somebody from my ADC i rather pick a instead a . Yeah I know kayne is not a tank, but why then, why should i prefer a tank, who is not respected by anybody over a champ, where you know that if you come close. you will die?

Well, thats all from me folks. Please respect the fact, that it is only my opinion. I do not claim to be the best player in League, but wanted to say somethink about this. Please note, that this is not a rant, just a calm opinion.