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Riot could you please revert the lethality changes

gr8 m8 25·7/23/2017, 2:53:48 PM·4 votes·431 views

Dear Riot

Since your Introduciton of the lethality changes, i wanted to give my honest opinion on it.

First i would like to point out the contradicition between the lethality changes and the original concept of lethality. Lethality was introduced in league to make assasins less snowbally by leveling with the opponent's level. But with the changes it now scales with your level, which of course makes it a lot more snowbally and pretty much contradicts with the very reason lethality was even introduced.

Second, Duskblade is straight up broken, the only meta i can compare this one to is the Black cleaver meta. Because right now not even assasin but also bruisers and even some ap champs like akali or evelynn rush this item. There was no need to rework duskblade for a second time, because there was no one that asked for it. Not even a single person wanted lethality to be changed, so i can't even think of a solid reason why riot did this.

Third, In patch 7.13 league was actually in a pretty good state, but with the changes to lethality riot themselves brought this game back into chaos.

My solution: I think that riot should look at these changes as they did with the kog'maw rework. Just like the reworked kog'maw, who wasn't supposed to be played they way he was in his rework, league shouldn't be played in a way, where everyone rushes that one broken item, which makes the game unfun and gives it no diversity. So as i stated in the title riot should just revert the changes and save themselves the troubles of dealing with the complaints about lethality and the trouble of trying to balance duskblade, like not even their hotfix helped, and save us the frustation that lethality brought with it.

Please upvote this so riot can see.

Yours sincerely, gr8 m8 25.

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1 Comments

Joxcab7/23/2017, 5:11:10 PM1 votes

The initial implementation of Lethality itself was fucking retarded and just pandered to ADCs who weren't even supposed to ever use flat armorpen more over anything else rather than the assassins the flat armorpen was meant for.

If you are an assassin using the Lethality as you should to kill the botlane repeatedly, with old Lethality, they fell further and further behind. AKA, you literally slow down your own benefit from Lethality against the intended target.

Lethality currently scales off your own level which means ADCs can't abuse it as much because they're further behind in levels, not that it stops them from just using it against the enemy ADC only instead. And this means if you actually punish the assassin properly, it matters more and not that they just go 0/4 or whatever but still delete you when they probably shouldn't because the old Lethality scaled off your level instead.

Literally the only two issues with Lethality are that ranged champions are still abusing something they have no right to and that Riot just fucked up Duskblade.