Riot: We don't want to enforce playstyles/metas

That TP gut? lol what? which one?

not letting you tp to wards

how 2 gut teleport

exactly.

Well atleast it was interesting to watch. Instead of that stale 30mins farmfest until the first fight for baron. TP ganks and goon squad 24/7 was a highlight in every game

Playing proxy singed is really risky though imo

Well yeah, they never said they wouldn't do anything that would cause the meta to change (and indeed they may well have said thing to the effect of they want the meta to constantly be shifting so things don't get stale). People can continue to use TP if they wish, and hence they're not enforcing a non-TP meta.

It's just the nature of the game that riot will do things that can be viewed as trying to enforce particular meta/playstyles. If a particular kind of playstyle/meta becomes popular, and Riot does nothing, it can seem like they're enforcing that playstyle by not buffing alternatives (or nerfing that style). If they do something, then it seems like they're enforcing a different playstyle. It's not that riot is actively trying to make for a certain meta/playstyle, it's just a constant balancing act that's never really done, and metas shift in response to that.

TP needed to be nerfed and both nerfs were justified. In case you forgot, bot lane was completely trashed and forbidden to make any sort of plays because it ran the risk of instantly having 4 enemies in it. 5 if there was a mid laner with a TP, which was also common at the time, with a TF.

TP isn't gutted at all. But now it's a summoner spell that doesn't give you any benefits outside of a strategic importance that it's meant for. Imagine if Flash gave you a 25% CDR refund if you killed your target within 2 seconds of using it. Picture every summoner spell with some sort of a boon outside of their effect, and you get the picture why it was a problem. Once you optimize your playstyle around that boon, it becomes a problem. And it was the only summoner's with such a boon, after the removal of boot enchantments.

Do you remember why Riot removed the shorter duration on teleporting to towers, and why they added it in the first place?

They added it in the first place (patch 4.4) in order to make Teleport a viable option. At the time, it had an extremely low pick rate, and Riot wanted to increase the variety in top lane. It's not that they thought everyone should stop taking Ignite; they wanted people to stop feeling forced into taking Ignite.

They later removed the CD reduction on teleporting to towers (lowered in 4.10, removed in 5.22) because they felt it was stifling early game aggression, allowing mid/late game scaling champions to entirely avoid their intended weakness of a poor early game. (Almost identical reason to why they removed the ability to start 10 health potions.) Your suggestion from other posts of increasing channel time to non-towers in order to create power budget to allow lower cooldown for teleporting to towers doesn't address this point.

Allowing an entire class of champions to circumvent their intended weakness seems like a good reason to remove power from a summoner spell to me. Not doing so would enforce a meta where early game champions have no place.

Forcing junglers to take smite is only reinforcing the statements that jungle mains have been saying for years.

I think this was one of those highly debated changes for a while. Junglers have settled in very well since most (if not all) of them used anyway, but I do recall some people a bit upset about it becoming mandatory to take it. Might be nice to see if Riot could one day change it so it's not mandatory, but if not, no big deal.

Shen also got a support mechanic on his W in replacement for the mechanic he lost on his Q, and it's so much more interesting than a manaless point-and-click ability.

True, Shen did get a decent support mechanic with his W, but every time I use it at least, it feels like it doesn't do much (I'm not sure as I need to look it up again, but I think it blocks only 3 hits or blocks hits for 3 seconds or something). Before, He had a shield which worked great in combination with his Taunt. I'm not saying he's a bad support, but he was already passed up for support before and his reworked Q makes it harder for him to go Support Shen Compared to Top lane Shen. Of course it's not as big of a gripe as it sounds since Riot already stated that the consider his rework a failure and will work on him again at some point in the future, I just hope that he is gets more Support friendly when they do. I will also say his new Q makes 's passive a lot easier.

Yes? This isn't about it being a good idea but about whether it was enforcing the meta.

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You're confusing adc with marksmen. And you saying they force an adc bot meta only pushes my point further. Riot is hypocritical about this and should force some metas.

no, youre confusing adc with "bot lane"

adc means attack damage carry, and while that can refer to certain melee carries, morde as a hybrid champ/caster who tends to build a mix of ap/ad and doesnt just carry off ad, doesnt quite fall into that category.

either way, its still a break from the meta since morde as a bruiser can replace a marksman on a team, which was otherwise not possible thanks to riot forcing marksmen into every game since season 1 and 2.