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Why is this season so rage inducing?

Sorgklaan·4/25/2016, 3:42:16 AM·94 votes·4,498 views

Like, okay. I've been playing since 2012.

Last season was really fun, I felt like I was climbing ranked so easily, and having fun while doing it. But now I can't play a single match without wanting to ragequit, every little thing pisses me off so much I just want to leave. Why is this season so unenjoyable?

I'm constantly on edge because I feel like I just have to fuck up once and there's no coming back. And every match ends like, 30-8, or 20-2, or some other absurd number.

I pick an AP champion and get my ass handed to me by somebody rushing iceborn/sunfire. I build damage items only to feel like it was completely worthless when the person carrying on the enemy team has nothing but tank items.

Everything about this season just pisses me off. I know I can do so much better in ranked, but every match I end up wanting to just stop playing because it's so horribly stressful, and I've never felt like that until this season.

80 Comments

Sorgklaan4/25/2016, 5:21:30 AM52 votes

" how is Ekko rushing iceborn and killing me as singed? "

" Why is Tristana top? Oh, she's building guinsoo, fuck "

" How did Udyr catch me? He doesn't even have boots. Oh, he has Runic. "

Every day it's some new bullshit.

Nanuk Pihoqahiak4/25/2016, 4:25:01 AM37 votes

Because a lot of things are out of your power.

Games end faster. Damage is MUCH higher early on. We have champions from the preseason still running rampant. Certain items are blatantly imbalanced and picked 90-100 percent of the time.

Trylobyte4/25/2016, 1:34:00 PM24 votes

Riot's trying to dance on the delicate line between what's healthy for the game and what the players want while keeping the game new and original. They're not having a great time of it this season. Every season has its own bullshit to deal with, but this season that bullshit (ADCs everywhere, assassins building pure tank and still wrecking face) is compounded by Dynamic Queue, weak towers, and long death timers. Balance has always been hit or miss during every season, but this season has effects that just make the shonky balance even more frustrating.

tXQbsPrjN54/25/2016, 2:25:03 PM20 votes

Cause some loser at Riot thinks raising all AP item costs by 500 gold and removing mana regen in all forms won't adversely effect the game.

Fovere4/25/2016, 11:46:37 AM17 votes

The combination of the removal of the ranked system that's worked relatively well over the last six years, dramatic changes being made to all aspects of the game, and an oppressive "code of conduct" that is willing to punish you if you say anything "negative" or "unsportsmanlike" regardless of context.

The game just isn't very fun right now compared to where it was. You can't try to relax and enjoy yourself because everything is forced.

The game is forced, we don't get to choose how and who we want to play with anymore. The behavior is forced, you aren't allowed to be a "whole" person, only the "positive! happy!" parts. Instead of small, incremental changes to various aspects of the game, and then deciding, based on game health whether they were good or not, we are getting sweeping changes to multiple aspects of the game, based on some vision of what Riot wants the game to be, regardless of whether it creates a good, healthy game or not.

Hella Kaiser4/25/2016, 12:47:01 PM15 votes

death timers and lack of vision

612X0dbmDS4/25/2016, 10:00:07 AM15 votes

Take all the crap that posters above have mentioned and put them in the same trash bin called dynamic Q and you have your answer OP.

SlaktarTasken4/25/2016, 9:55:04 AM14 votes

Broken items, broken keystones, wet paper towers, broken mechanics, the continuous lowering of skillfloors and skillceilings, fighter class as a whole being just about obselete and lackluster solo gaming experience.

I agree, this season feels unbelievably lackluster and often incredibly rage inducing. I know for sure, if I had started playing LoL today in this extremely unforgiving season, I would have most likely uninstalled it as quickly as I'd have installed it.

Also, Riot just keeps turning the whole game upside down the whole time introducing new things no one wants or asked for because: Derp! Ohlala! So fresh!

Remlap12234/25/2016, 12:53:04 PM12 votes

TL;DR, Season 6 reinforced everything shitty about League while dumpstering the best parts, while Season 5 did vice versa.

USG Failsawce4/25/2016, 1:26:40 PM11 votes

It's because Riot is trying so hard to be "edgy" and "clever" and "innovative" with all their updates, items, masteries and reworks, that balance has gotten completely out of their own control.

Kits are mega overloaded and unfun to play against, super neato items with the cool new passive are picked 100% of the time on whatever given class, and even more broken on others, and games end fast cus fast snowbally games with one team fight are fun amirite? Balance has become harder to control.

And so what's riot's fix for all of this imbalanced stompfest? Ignoring balance, and releasing moar edgy, clever, and innovative things, that no one has ever asked for ever -_-

GankLord4/25/2016, 8:17:21 PM6 votes

Where do you even start? Lack of vision with green wards gone, turrets are weaker, new jungle enchants are so out of whack really the best junglers are all devourer junglers, no solo q, minion advantages depending on level and death timers are ridiculous. I'm sure I missed something else but that's what's making this season shitty for me.

option paralysis4/25/2016, 1:10:57 PM6 votes

C'mon dude, you don't like getting one shot by a sunfire/iceborn tank ? that's premade with his jungler and mid laner that come top too to fuck you up even more ? Damn, you're having fun but you just don't know you're having fun. Dynamic q is great.

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destiny fan4/25/2016, 6:31:33 PM5 votes

Dumb forced team mechanics make games feel out of your control and impossible when 2 players in your team are slightly worse than the enemy team, yes the game should have more individual player impact

Great Ozymandius4/25/2016, 8:42:35 PM4 votes

Because the game is super snowbally now. Damage early game is super high. Turrets are easy to kill and don't do very much damage (the purpose of a turret is basically to deny you cs and to give the enemy team gold). This means A kill in lane translates into extreme zoning power, a tower, a roam and another tower, and thus a large team gold advantage, which quickly translates into more towers and kills and a win.

Buffing the damage and durability of towers would make the game considerably less snowbally and more enjoyable. They should also give all towers significant resistances, so taking towers quickly either requires a void staff/last whisper or requires a lot of time and very high damage.

forresto4/25/2016, 7:53:30 PM4 votes

so I just want to mention that paper towers, and minion pushing mechanics have had a lot to do with it. riot said at the beginning of the season that they were nerfing towers, and giving minions an invisble stat boost for the team who seemed to be winning with the goal of speeding up games. so these days whoever has the advantage has a continously compounding advantage as they can get to towers easier/more often, and when they do towers go down in a few seconds. Those extra towers translate into gold, and objectives thanks to map presence, which translates into more items, and more buffs. This makes it even harder for the losing team to come back.

On top of that, mages now get a portion of their ap as bonus tower damage, meaning towers go down even quicker. (I actually like this one, but it compounds the other tower problems)

franticFurball4/26/2016, 6:53:29 PM3 votes

Why is this season so rage inducing?

  • Dynamic Queue forcing premades on soloQ players + the shadowplay around the promise of a soloQ implementation

  • Tower nerfs and auto-push making for boring, lopsided games which are decided way too early

  • DynQ and aforementioned snowball-heavy games make personal impact next to irrelevant

  • Game rewards low-skill-high-reward champions

  • Game rewards early dominance champions

For me personally, I am just waiting for Overwatch, ever since riot released their most recent statements about soloQ.

1st Movement4/25/2016, 4:33:43 PM3 votes

Been playing since season 1 and its been getting more enjoyable for me

BigPooStorm4/26/2016, 1:51:11 AM3 votes

Feeling pretty bad as a Veigar player this season. All the anti AP/burst items like item 3156 item 3053 item 3139 being popular are making it pretty tough. Not to mention this season Riot really made it really difficult to bring the game to late game. Weaker towers, longer death timers, baron empowered minions, etc, all these things are making it tougher for late game champions. I get that not everyone likes farming to late game, but all these changes made it way more difficult to reach late game.

OurLordBison4/25/2016, 4:27:27 PM2 votes

"Oh hey another Iceborn/sunfire/spirts tank tanking all my hits as a 10/0/0 twitch"

agbudar4/25/2016, 10:17:40 PM2 votes

deathtimers are the reason for all the rage

Velasan4/25/2016, 10:50:41 PM2 votes

It's not the season it's the general attitude of the players. Soft resets already mashed everyone together, then put premades on top of that, and people are already primed to be frustrated.

They get frustrated and then they blame everything except themselves. They continue to do worse and be on tilt more often, and everyone just plays a lower level than they are actually capable of.

Kat Goddess4/25/2016, 4:07:06 PM2 votes

Then I went meta golem on Kat.... it's not as satisfying but... [zombie-brand-mindblown]

GigglesO4/26/2016, 4:35:51 AM2 votes

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Like, okay. I've been playing since 2012.

Last season was really fun, I felt like I was climbing ranked so easily, and having fun while doing it. But now I can't play a single match without wanting to ragequit, every little thing pisses me off so much I just want to leave. Why is this season so unenjoyable?

This season is super snowbally.

I'm constantly on edge because I feel like I just have to fuck up once and there's no coming back. And every match ends like, 30-8, or 20-2, or some other absurd number.

Super Snowbally

I pick an AP champion and get my ass handed to me by somebody rushing iceborn/sunfire. I build damage items only to feel like it was completely worthless when the person carrying on the enemy team has nothing but tank items.

Because tank is forgiving.

Everything about this season just pisses me off. I know I can do so much better in ranked, but every match I end up wanting to just stop playing because it's so horribly stressful, and I've never felt like that until this season.

I do really dislike how snowbally this season feels

Eunson4/26/2016, 6:45:27 AM2 votes

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I pick an AP champion

There's your answer for losing haha

Dukues4/26/2016, 3:52:31 PM2 votes

Haha reading all the replies and realized how right everyone is. Its weird because as far as ranked and seasons go season 6 has been my best. I got back to my elo right away, but the climb felt lack luster. I basically supported 90% of the time since I always choose fill. Idk I am happy to have ranked back up quickly this season but now I have no real desire to play the game. For all the reasons mentioned above, the game is just not that fun to play right now.

Mazariamonti4/25/2016, 5:48:45 PM2 votes

Every season is rage inducing