League Has Been Ruined - Goodbye

Döuble Tap··64 votes·13,346 views
  • This is only my opinion. i am not claiming to have full evidence of what I am about to present. I am merely stating what I have been observing -

Riot,

You've ruined the game. Plain and simple. Your game will continue to dwindle in popularity because of the chimps you have working on the development team. As far as i am concerned, everyone I know is royally pissed off about this stupid meta you have created. Support mains and Adc mains have been hit incredibly hard these past patches. I bring this up because there was one thing holding this game together despite the already known flaws. Structure. Structure kept the game going, fun, and competitive. Champions had lanes and roles. You've completely demolished that. That premise is gone. I am not here to argue numbers with you or anyone.

I use to be able to go into a game fully confident of how I was suppose to play. I had my win conditions set. I knew the match ups. None of that knowledge applies anymore with the exception of a few games here and there. No one is trying to prove they are the better Adc or support or whatever. The rule of the game is pick whats OP. That's not fun. Thats not competitive when the game is decided in champion select. The game is in complete chaos. There is no more structure. Anybody can go anywhere as long as their are OP. Skill level doesn't matter near as much as it did. All that matters is the champion you are playing. I'm done with this game competitively. I will play enough ranked games to maintain my D4 status for the rest of the season just to earn what I have played for. You have turned this game into a casual one, so I will play it as so.

"Just shut up and play whats OP!" - real quote from a youtuber i wont source. No thanks thats not fun nor competitive.

Good luck on your climb gentlemen and ladies.

43 Comments

Teêmo Bót36 votes

Not to point fingers but ever since the boy Greg has joined the game has gone downhill and his history doesn't help either ....

Mita30032 votes

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Not to point fingers but ever since the boy Greg has joined the game has gone downhill and his history doesn't help either ....

Holy shit you people are fucking dense Ghostcrawler is not the reason league is "dying" one person cant just say buff this or you are fired riot said it themselfs that their team dont work like that if you really think 1 person is makeing decisions on how to balance the game you really need to have a reality check

Teêmo Bót2 votes

you see, when a bad idea goes through a whole team from one person then the whole team needs jesus, twisted treeline is more fun than the rift right now

lil koda5 votes

see, the problem is when you are the LEAD designer, its like being the manager at a mcdonalds or something, if the employees screws up or a customer gets angry the complaint is going to you and you will be the one to blame. Hes the LEAD designer, if something fucked up went through he MUST have had something to do with it, either it be created it or let it through.

Doublmull20 votes

I used to be a support main. I haven't touch the role since the bot lane has changed. It's not because the role is boring, it's more because I don't know how to play bot lane anymore.

Parallel Paradóx9 votes

Casual player here. Ive been playing league since season 2. I main support. However, I've been watching my friend this season to see the "meta". I dont know what to say. They set the bot lane on fire. Its complete chaos. Its pick who you want and not give any thoughts but who you wanna play. I can see the salt from people who hated playing bot lane bc they got outplayed by better duos/adcs /supports. Suffice to say, classic support is dead. Im right there with you.

GayFluffyUnicorn2 votes

Yeah man all these outplays by lulu/janna pressing two buttons off cooldown and the highly skillful tristanas threeshotting everyone left and right from 800 range.

Now we have all these no skill champs like yas, ire, swain in the botlane.

Reaper Soraka1 votes

As a support main I love the new bot lane. My "troll" picks of things like Ezreal, Nidalee or Annie are flying under the radar.

I get to have fun again!

Phoneutria16 votes

Just hope that Ghostcrawler doesn't go to whatever game you're going to now.

koshkyra7 votes

i do, so he leaves league

Trixsta11 votes

How long has support and adc dominated this game??? I love this season

Ayanami3rd15 votes

Yes, oneshot "outplays" by assassins are so much more fun.

Need Gold 4 Tent3 votes

oh, coz death by rightclicks are even better, amirite? other lanes sucked it up when adc pushed them out of their own lanes. now same thing happens to bot "boohoo adc2k18"

GayFluffyUnicorn3 votes

No it's much more fun getting killed in a rotation by armless lulu players. Or straight up being unable to play the game simply because these champs are in the game. League is becoming more skillful again. Supports are still hilariously overpowered.

If we tone down the damage creep in this game it could become more fun again. Riot has catered for too long to low elo and bad players in general.

It's time we go back to what made this game great: skillful and competitive gameplay.

lil koda3 votes

league becoming more skillful.... LMAO, everyone oneshotting eachother isnt fun or "skillful" its retarded

DNFVixen11 votes

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  • This is only my opinion. i am not claiming to have full evidence of what I am about to present. I am merely stating what I have been observing -

Riot,

You've ruined the game. Plain and simple. Your game will continue to dwindle in popularity because of the chimps you have working on the development team. As far as i am concerned, everyone I know is royally pissed off about this stupid meta you have created. Support mains and Adc mains have been hit incredibly hard these past patches. I bring this up because there was one thing holding this game together despite the already known flaws. Structure. Structure kept the game going, fun, and competitive. Champions had lanes and roles. You've completely demolished that. That premise is gone. I am not here to argue numbers with you or anyone.

I use to be able to go into a game fully confident of how I was suppose to play. I had my win conditions set. I knew the match ups. None of that knowledge applies anymore with the exception of a few games here and there. No one is trying to prove they are the better Adc or support or whatever. The rule of the game is pick whats OP. That's not fun. Thats not competitive when the game is decided in champion select. The game is in complete chaos. There is no more structure. Anybody can go anywhere as long as there are OP. Skill level doesn't matter near as much as it did. All that matters is the champion you are playing. I'm done with this game competitively. I will play enough ranked games to maintain my D4 status for the rest of the season just to earn what I have played for. You have turned this game into a casual one, so I will play it as so.

"Just shut up and play whats OP!" - real quote from a youtuber i wont source. No thanks thats not fun nor competitive.

Good luck on your climb gentlemen and ladies.

I been saying the same shit since the preseason. They been steadily ruining the game since season 6 season 5 was bad but the introduction of keystones is where shit REALLY started to go down hill.

GirI Gamer7 votes

oh noooooooooo your ardent supports have been OP for a whole year and you didnt make a single complaint but once they are shit you are quitting the game booohoooooo :(

Cavesloth2 votes

Enjoy the higher que times lols.

Armored Yokai7 votes

It's just bot lane, games shouldn't be focused on one particular lane at all! there should be all around strong lanes.

AmazoX6 votes

See ya a day or two later.

Dukues5 votes

Yea honestly I just have so little fun playing this game now. Actually... I dont think I have really even had fun this season maybe in a handful of games. I have reduced my play significantly over the last couple of seasons. Luckily in gold I don't have to worry about decay so I don't even have a reason to play on this account anymore. I started playing on my other account I used to practice other roles in but.... even trying to rank it up or take the game seriously is so damn hard.

Harden Stepback5 votes

This game is dead man. Riot really messed up.

Høustøn4 votes

All these people complaining about how ADC used to be op. Atleast our roles were still meta (Top main here). There isn't even an ADC anymore. I've been in this game since Season 2 and stuck with it through every screw up, even if it affected me directly. I thought I would always support this game, but now it's just not League to me. If there is ANYTHING that would make me quit this game, this ruined meta will be it.

UnboundHades3 votes

If your gonna quote somebody and avoid saying who it is all that says is that the person you are quoting has a terrible reputation

Malak3 votes

Man you all whining over bot lane changes huh?

Elewd3 votes

see you in a week.

KVbqbFsC8e2 votes

Adios.

SirLucsean2 votes

League of legends has indeed changed. Even on vacation I've seen the majority of the community complaining.

Whatever champion is considered op makes the game considerably easy to snowball.

Look through my match history. I instalock Evelyn support and manage to snowball to victory. The matchmaking was indeed poor I shouldn't have snowball so easily.

Age, knowledge, understanding have abruptly screwed up matchmaking.

Age 31 Top Garen. 7-5-3 Age 21 JG Yi. 13-11-7 Age 14 Mid Zyra 3-17-10 Age 18 Vayne. 6-10-3 Age 17 Blitz. 7-10-7

Vs Age 21 Top Teemo 10-9-5 Age 16 JG XinZhao 12- 14-3 Age 22 Mid Zed 17-3-6 Age 19 Jhin. 9-5-8 Age 19 Brand 5- 5- 17

With this in mind Who won the game you think? Who had a higher chance in bot lane depending on individual skill and team comp? What champion became toxic first based on individual skill and team comp?

KoKoboto2 votes

Lmao the intro vs the first few lines contrast so heavily. CHIMPS

DARIUS ALL DAY 2 votes

Meh, I like being able to play Darius in the botlane and not getting called a troll, especially considering 90% of my top lane opponents these days are all ranged.

Lunar Lunacy2 votes

Congrats on making a quitting thread that was constructive enough to get upvoted instead of downvoted

Owl Puff2 votes

Honestly this new meta is kind of fun. It has more variety. Also the whole idea that champion picks decide the outcome of the game has been happening for a while now. Before this change happened people went for the op choices. Nothing new. And I get it you don't know what's going to happen with the match ups now because of the weird combos. But honestly I think its time to stop whining and time to learn other champions. Its not hard to determine an outcome of a lane and learn how to succeed with the enemy champions being different to how they used to be. Sure its going to take time since the pool is huge but this change made the game feel less vanilla.

Jeiku1 votes

Title says it all.

chipndip11 votes

I thought everyone said support was op?

I fucking can't...

Evidence1 votes

The Evidence has arrived,i feel ya mate,i started telling peoiple on boards that the game seems off early this season,i m glad u and some others feel the same. Yorick

Extreme Person1 votes

Ye i hear you, my play time has been significantly reduced over the last month or so despite my free time being at a 5 year high. The game just feels way too casual, same reason I never really enjoyed normal blind pick is creeping into my ranked games. Just feels bad that there really aren't any games enticing me and I still want to enjoy league of legends. Back when I quit Call of Duty (for eerily similar reasons) I turned to several games like battlefield, MAG, and eventually league, but nothing really seems to have that magic right now. Hopefully this next patch puts the game in the right direction but honestly I'm not keeping my hopes up.

Stephenizgod1 votes

I have been having a lot of success with support lately actually. However, this means jack shit... I had a lot of success before this meta, the difference is the lane was decided by how well bot lane played together and strategy rather than who can hit buttons faster on the more OP champion.

Before this meta, I played Nami as a support, like how a support should be played. This meta, i play balls to the wall Nami.... I just go ham all the time, ye i die a whole lot more, but i do so much damage early game it usually ends with several kills for my team. I also take as many kills as i can, doesn't really seem to matter any more, if i get enough kills i start building AP.

Basically, its way less fun and i pick random characters into Support and just go ham all the time. As long as i have CC and my bot lane partner isn't AFK it works out. All strategy and tactics are out the window, land the CC and hit all your buttons, and Ignite.

Also, Exhaust is useless now since it doesn't stop 100-0's anymore, all it really does is slow (which is why I take it on Nami, i like the slow so i can land Q easier). Idk how many times i've exhausted a Wu or Talon or "insert OP champ here" and watched them erase at least 2 people on my team...

ThıghConnoısseur1 votes

see ya

mack91121 votes

its ok for you to move on i mean its just a video game :) im a jungle main and I have learned if you want to truly enjoy league you have to accept change . I love league :)

JarI BaIgruuf1 votes

Realistically speaking the game isn't going anywhere anytime soon. The vast majority of the player base is in lower elo, which has never really followed the "meta." Less than 10% of players (and that's not even taking normals into account) are actually affected by any of this, but of course the vocal minority always speaks the loudest. We'll be seeing messages like this years from now. This is just common sense.

Speeedy1 votes

one of the problems is that games are so volatile because of the matchmaking system you have over 60% of your player base in bronze and silver (~63%) so when you get matched with teammates they can be on the lower end or the higher end of that and cause for frustrating games. League is the only game that I know of where they have this. Add in gold and you are at ~89% of your player base in just over half your ranks. You have about 11% of players in 12 ranks out of 27 ranks (bronze, silver, gold, plat, diamond, masters, challenger). Riot adding another rank will do nothing to solve this problem. Go watch an unranked to challenger series and they spend more games in low elo ranking up due to their teams verse when they get to high gold+ where they pretty much go right threw the ranks.

Other games like CSGO, SC2, and Overwatch either use equal distribution of ranks to a point then leave the top ranks low% or use a bell curve distribution of ranks. In most of those games when you play ranked the matchmaking system is much better because you dont have the huge skill gaps in players. I was Global Elite in CSGO, Master in SC2, and Grand Master in Overwatch and never felt like the teams were super imbalanced (aside from cheaters once in a while) when ranking up in any of those games. In league I just pray my team is decent so I can carry them to victory since I feel like I am a mid-high gold play (gold 2 is where I think i belong).

Source: https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/rankings/rank-distribution

Hyquiem1 votes

Heh, I agree I play Azir vs Veigar he’s low on farm until his whole team with a bunch of OPs, comes crash my lane and I’m being focused for free. “Skill”.

MEXICOMAN1 votes

Goodbye soldier, and godspeed.

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