Overspecialization: The preseason has spiraled out of control

Lost R··5 votes·501 views

Not from anything Riot has done (at least, none that I can actually tell). The problem lies with all of you. I'm tired of this. I've been beyond tired of this for two years now. I'd LIKE to be tired of this again.

So with the ADC revamp, everyone wants to be the ADC or AD melee assassin. That is, literally EVERYONE. Rather than trying out anything new, the community has doubled, tripled, quadrupled and quintupled down on their previous convictions. Only play AD melee assassin. Only pick Zed or Yasuo. Only kill champions. Everyone on your team is the enemy who just wants to steal the glory that is rightfully yours.

Within one day of the preseason patch, the community exploded with rage, demanding nerfs, buffs, rewinds to previous seasons, and so on. They didn't want the dust to settle, they didn't want to try anything new, they didn't want to figure out why things might be working too well, not well enough or not at all. People forgot that this shit happens every year at this exact same time. They forget all the times we've had a major change to some core element of the gameplay and we have to wait a while before the SANER parts of the community adjust to the change before reasonable nerfs or buffs can be applied.

So ADCs got a huge buff. Do people play tanks more? No! Do people play mages more? NO! Do people bring more range or crowd control to the game? NO! Do people play assassin more? You bet your ass!

I'd like to know how the changes ACTUALLY affected the game. Instead, I just watch as everyone goes all AD melee assassin and I'm left trying to cover everything they aren't going to do and in fact REFUSE to do as they lose to the arms race they locked themselves into. Trinkets are free, no one fucking wards anymore; in fact, it's harder to ward now as the support because of the change to the trinkets. I get bitched at endlessly because I don't have 10000 wards on the map (completely forgetting the ward cap limit that exists for everyone no exceptions for two years now!) even if I'm overcapped on wards while trying to build boots and mana and cooldown reduction and armor and health and everything that isn't relate to damage because god forbid someone has to build even ONE armor item which ultimately takes away their ability to deal the most damage the fastest.

This game has become a selfish circlejerk of people who think having all the kills are going to have sexy Playboy models want to come and touch their eruption button. In a bitter twist of irony, the assassin mains end up doing LESS damage than everyone else around them while not doing anything else to compensate. This has gone on for years now; I stopped pointing it out, watching as everyone else drives head first into a glacier that is always there and then cries about it afterwards like it's the first time, never learning from their previous mistakes. I'm probably killing myself trying to compensate for others' stupidity. I'm the support, but I'm not your goddamn nanny.

7 Comments

GorillazNtheMyst2 votes

No one plays mages anymore because they're terrible this patch. Midlane is stupid hard if you play anything other than AD assassin, so you can totally, absolutely, 100% blame Rito.

Romans VI XXIII1 votes

LMFAO, you do realize that the reason every one wants to play AD champs atm is cause RIOT (key word cause it is they who did it not us) revamped/created a ton of new awesome/powerful AD items, AND at the exact same time not nerf nearly ALL AP items, increasing their gold cost AND reducing the stats.

So common logic leads you to this: Nerf AP + Buff AD = Play AD!!!! The magic of math!

WookieJesuz3 votes

Shut up. You didnt even read his post.

Jbels1 votes

I don't care either way. I spend most of my games filling

swiftsnipe1 votes

TLDR: everyone is playing AD champs after the changes - what were the real effects?

-top lane. more aggro brusiers - riven, irelia, renekton, jax etc. -tanks are still tanky and do their jobs fine. -mages hit midgame power spike later. Meta will probably shift to champs that build RoA -ADC's fit niche playing styles - still squishy and die easy. having an escape is more important with bruisers everywhere. -Support - no changes. Jungle - Roughly the same. Mundo actually goes where he pleases now

Lost R1 votes

Except I haven't seen any of that. Any role, any position has been occupied almost always by an ADC or assassin. If there ever is anything else, it's almost always because I am when I'm not on my bender of frustration (AKA I go ADC and aggressively smash the towers).

I know there have been sweeping changes, and I've been playing every role to figure out what exactly those changes have caused. The problem is no one else seems to be, and in fact REFUSE to learn. It's different, so it's horrifying.

swiftsnipe1 votes

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/community/q/check-out-our-preseason-q-roundup

Summarizes things pretty well.

It will probably take 2-3 patches (5.24 ish) before things are settled.

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