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I miss Gameplay of season 4

MOuHahaHAhahaaaa··29 votes·8,208 views

  • simple champs, simple mechanics, simple items and no overpowered items.

  • diversity in ratios majority of the champions had back in the days AD and AP ratios allowing you to play different styles => more varations of playing and it was refreshing.

  • A big Mastery tree allowing you to vary between styles of playing and it allowed you to choose stats for a correspondant champion. same for runes.

  • No drakes to worry about => you don't depend on your jungler or botlane. Those drakes are a good objective but they impact too much the game.

  • Towers were there to defend you and to protect you against a gangbang dive until high levels. They were strong and didn't fall at min 6.

  • Assassin's weren't Overpowered, irelia was still a simple mechanic champion but a strong champ not an overpowered one. Sion was still the undead regenerating tons of HP. Aatrox had still his old design. Ww had this funny ult and this crazy lifesteal regen.

  • One shot or high mobility champs weren't as present as nowadays.

  • Game lenght was around 25-45 with a lot of turnarounds.

  • In the past you really felt your powerspike as a champion. If it was an early, mid or late game champion you really felt it... Nasus struggled a lot early much more than today, same for tryda...

  • The game was more balanced and more enjoyable.

  • no gamebreaker baron buff on minons which just gives a team which has a little advantage or big advantage the possibility to end the game.

Why did we changed the game when it was near to perfection when we compare it with today ?

17 Comments

DeadAlliance8 votes

Game is dead, move on.I give it 1 year more before it dies completly.Riot messed up to the point, that they unban permas in NA.Stupid gameplay desicions, broken matchmaking, idiotic punish system, unability to listen to comunity...Those problems pile up to the point that NO ONE alredy knows how to fix this game.I stoped playing 3 mounts ago, best decision ever.Move on, there is so much better games out there.

Håppy6 votes

I expect a lot of "FERAL FLARE 2121221211221" comments. Feral Flare wound up pretty balanced by the end of the season, and then went through 13 different versions before getting deleted and having its effects split between Rageblade and Bloodrazer, with Rageblade being FAR less balanced.

PaffWasTaken6 votes

'Cuz LC$

Madsin252 votes

Because one shots are a hell of a lot easier to balance.

Doctor Dyment2 votes

Wasn't Season 4 the reign of assassins? Or was that Season 5? One of those two was when assassins were king for an entire season. And the variation in ratios on champions seems good on paper or looking back, but in reality these variable ratios were either completely vestigial or downright confusing. Why did Sion, seemingly a massive undead guy with an axe and an ultimate that gave him 100% lifesteal at level 3, also have large AP ratios? Why did Master Yi have such a massive AP ratio on his heal? And champion kits were simpler yes, but you seem to be remembering things much differently than I do. Irelia was the posterchild for nerfs for a very long time, Aatrox was a one dimensional drain tank, and Sion was uh, awful. You have to remember the good and the bad, otherwise you can't put things correctly into context. It's like people reminiscing fondly of the 50's, apparently forgetting the Korean War, the horrific racism and segregation, and the beginning of the Cold War.

TheSingularity2 votes

It was season 3 where assassins ruled. Season 4 was a little bit of everything that favoured divers (fiora0=)

Doctor Dyment1 votes

Sorry, I've been playing this game for a really long time and the past seasons kind of blur together to me.

ZT Xperimentor2 votes

One word, esports. I predicted it back in season two, that they would become obsessed with it for profit margins and sacrifice gameplay for it, unfortunately it's worse than I expected; I miss the strategy that drew me into this game. You've named everything affected!

Gall1 votes

I miss runescape back in 2007. Oh, they brought back old school servers? Well, it's still not as fun. It's because players are better at the game, have more game knowledge, and overall are more competitive instead of playing just for gaffs? Well shit, sounds like league of legends state too.

MOuHahaHAhahaaaa2 votes

don't take me wrong i don't HATE the game... I just prefered the old version of it. If i could play old one and new one i would do it. I don't think players are better. There are just more players many come from wow community and those are way stronger than average players. Moreover this damage meta i the less skilled meta because you don't have the time for outplays as the damage is too high.

Tutorial Ashe1 votes

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SwiftKitten881 votes

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I would recommend looking into [removed by Wuks].

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The plan is to recreate the season 4 experience and to give old and new players a chance to relive the experience that they loved or never got to love. Even though the patch that the game is running on is 4.20 it still has things like Feral Flare, AP Yi, and they're looking into adding a few extras later down the road once the game is in a playable state, which should be soonish.

yeah well as fun as that sounds.. they're are a few champions short... (say by 100 or so) and their server is in France (which is roughly half the planet away from california).. sooo unfortunately the ping would be unplayable

Tutorial Ashe1 votes

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https://www.%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%.com/

yeah well as fun as that sounds.. they're are a few champions short... (say by 100 or so) and their server is in France (which is roughly half the planet away from california).. sooo unfortunately the ping would be unplayable

Once they update their client they've said they're gonna look into opening up a NA server.

SwiftKitten881 votes

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Once they update their client they've said they're gonna look into opening up a NA server.

that i would certainly get into, if they have a working season 4 (every champion at that time).. on na ping... i would never go back to the shitty live servers mess we have now

Nyarlathοtep1 votes

diversity in ratios majority of the champions had back in the days AD and AP ratios allowing you to play different styles => more varations of playing and it was refreshing.

This leads to difficulties in balancing a champ.

irelia was still a simple mechanic champion but a strong champ not an overpowered one

Well, she had potential as a theme. Besides currently irelia is pretty balanced.

Sion was still the undead regenerating tons of HP

That for some reason he had a kit with no cohesion. Was he burst, was he sustained damage dealer. Was he a draintank? The world will never know.

Aatrox had still his old design.

Which was almost identical to jax (both atk speed reliant champs, 1 aoe hard cc, dash, aa enhance).

Ww had this funny ult and this crazy lifesteal regen.

Which had almost no counterplay. His lifesteal is still there. A bit gated though.

no gamebreaker baron buff on minons which just gives a team which has a little advantage or big advantage the possibility to end the game.

Thats not the problem. The buff on minions would be totally justified, if turrets were good at defending. But they arent.

Cascotta1 votes

I agree, totally! Riot messed the healthy game after s4, s4 drake and barron buff was a nice thing to get, some gold/ad/ap and so on. After they changed the map (s5) with the new barron and that its buffing the minions, its insane just free win after 1 barron. Would love to play in season 4 again, best season, no doubt!

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