For those of you who are hoping for a better season 10.
Remember those items that we saw in the youtube video?
The HP one that offered more CDR passed the cap? That should show you the direction that league is still going to be headed. It is going to somehow ADD even more damage into the game and more durability. Imagine a Shen with 15% additional CDR. from 45% to 60%. >:D
Ulti's every single teamfight.
Riot is now balancing for speed, not tactical gameplay. What they think is "good" gameplay is 1.2 second fight every 30 seconds. Or a 3 seconds forced fight every 45 seconds. You can't play safe or freeze or play for late game.
Even the analyst say that on the LCS stage. They say it whenever TL is up and win in the late game. That if they were to play against a better team, they would lose. (Mainly due to the fact that, other teams would punish TL for having a not great early game.)
That is something that the Riot Team has even said via LCS. Late game is no longer a secured game phase. Its a blessing to get into late game now. Late game does not happen for Level Locked Champions. If it does it is very rare. For example Ryze. He is level locked until level 11 and then level 16. Level 11 lets his put out decent damage, but level 16 is when all of his potential is unlocked. Yet out of the last 10-20 games I have played on Ryze, games are always over around level 14-15. There is a gold amount that even if I were to hit Ryze level 16. I wouldn't be able to claw back from. Or the other side, my team is so far ahead, that it doesn't even matter if I hit level 16. Again, I could be fed, but it wouldn't matter as much, because Ryze's damage is level locked until level 16.
The difference in the damage for a Ryze is 30% at levels 5-6, 10-11, 15-16. No item in the game is going to increase a champions damage output by 30% aside from Triforce, Rabadons, IE, Spear of Shojin.
Good game :D