Dear Riot Games, People are unhappy with the speed of the games.

WukongMain··4 votes·466 views

Over the course of the past few days i have seen countless people complain about the current stage of the game. Games are shorter, more "Snowbally" than before. while i am not among those people, i quite like the way the game is now.

I do not think it is a wise decision to have some of the community stand divided on an issue so impactul to the game as a whole This is a team game, and with some people feeling unhappy with it..it could cause of unneeded battles among team members. which leads to a whole other issue.

How do you feel about the current pace of the game? Do you have any plans to further balance these out in the coming weeks?

~If there is an answer already somewhere, can someone please link me to it, Thanks

16 Comments

Frost Hellfire1 votes

Of course not, but hey, they might change all of this before S6 starts. People just keep forgetting that this is patch 5.22, a.k.a, pre-season, not the actual Season 6.

Lu7GxFdkYz1 votes

Yes I like it but I do kinda miss the old long ass games I will admit.

WukongMain1 votes

do you feel like having a long ass game, in this current patch to be an impossible thing?

Lu7GxFdkYz1 votes

{quoted}

do you feel like having a long ass game, in this current patch to be an impossible thing?

most likely

Betoldia Prime1 votes

The speed is fine actually, people snowball because others dont play safe enough, and thats the punishment. If everyone played smart, and planned ahead instead of reacting to what happens, maybe the games would go back to regular timers. i just had a game, where literally everyone played like they were pro" and i was surprised, because what everyone believed would be a quick 20 minute game (In their favor i might say) turned into a 56 minute game...
People complain about the time because they can no longer do stupid things on purpose and fix them in 10 minutes. now you do something stupid, you pay for it. Simple as that.

WukongMain2 votes

i completely agree with you. but the fact still remains, the majority of league, simply cant grasp playing safe. and they die. Perhaps this is tough love to truly make us all feel like our mistake, Really is a Mistake. Which, i don't mind. the easier my mistake is to pinpoint, the quicker i can try and solve the issue at hand.

But should our 1 mistake really mean defeat for the team as a whole? This seems a little bit hard ~ especially are lower elo where mistakes are so punished.

At higher divisions where people begin to really grasp the ideas of the game, i can see this not being an issue, but the majority of players, are "filthy casuals" that aren't all too serious about the game, and just wanna have some fun. Making a mistake, and it being so difficult to reclaim a hold on a game, is simply not fun.

BluePolarizer1 votes

lol in every one of my games, before anything even happens, I ask "what does everyone think about the preseason"?

Most of the time the answer is "it is way too snowbally. it is ridiculous". I don't even find winning fun now. I build extremely suboptimal items and still can win just due to snowballing, once I get it going. I couldn't do that before.

I play with plat 1/2 and diamond 5's. Not the highest, but this is already the top 5%. If even the top 5% do not believe that the game is balanced, despite significant effort to adjust, what do you think this means? Should the game be only bearable for LCS players?

BluePolarizer1 votes

As of now, you can lose the game before minions even spawn due to a blind Blitzcrank hook during an invade. In S5 I've had multiple comebacks from FB invades and 4v5s. This season? I just tell team to ff 20. I'm surprised that you, who is stuck in bronze 5, assume that people in plat and diamond are getting snowballed on due to not being good enough or not knowing how to play safe lol.

Betoldia Prime1 votes

true, there are almost no comeback in the meta now, but they are still very possible ( i have had 4 this weekend alone, on both sides) Also, im in bronze because i barely play ranked because of lag and other house factors, and you cant give me that excuse because i have seen Plat and diamond in season 5 (strategy gathering and all of that) and i have seen them snowball with no chance for comebacks. If they could do it before, why is it a problem now?

Vs Kairos1 votes

More people will go afk if the game stay like this lol FB = GG

WukongMain1 votes

Ohh the legendary ragequit after first blood, i have experienced this on several occasions , i really do not understand their mentality of simply leaving after making a mistake and giving first blood... Why even queue up... lol

BluePolarizer1 votes

Before, I would've said "np guys just a blitz invade, play safe and let's win this".

Now, after seeing multiple 1st bloods turn into steamrolls due to snowballing in both ranked and teambuilder, whoever's team gets snowballed on just is "gg open mid" at 10 minutes. As of now I am not playing ANY ranked and only playing to test ideas, but once my ideas have been tested and changes have not been made, I'm probably not going to play too much anymore.

TheSeltzerBaron1 votes

ARAM is where the imbalance is most obvious. There's one lane which means all the bullshit gets focused through a small space. High range champ abilities practically ruin your ability to attack Varus Xerath Velkoz. It's not the speed of the games that's the problem, it's the wild-west attitude of throwing champs in as they are and letting them run amok. Everything adjusted for rift ends up broken on ARAM.

WukongMain1 votes

ARAM is indeed, unbalanced with the wide arrange of champions.

What if riot implemented some kind of system, that gave a sorta "team comp" to each side. say for example, 1 ranged poker on each team, 1 adc on each each?, it would still be randomized. but might add some kind of balance.

junglerboy161 votes

Thanks captain obvious, I don't think anyone else noticed that games have been shorter and more one-sided.

It's not like there are 6-7 top threads saying as much right now.

WukongMain2 votes

Thanks for being so closed minded friend. Atleast i, am trying to ask questions, and find a solution that sounds reasonable, other people seem to just cry about it.

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