You know, I don't see why everyone is complaining about Onslaught.

Niyumi·Sep 8, 2017·28 votes·1,193 views

It's really not that bad. Sure it's not braindead easy like most games are these days, and I guess that's unusual, but it's not nearly as hard as people make it out to be.

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Shuyin178Sep 8, 20174 votes

I love this mode and I love the challenge. I'm laughing at all of the bullshit most of the time instead of babyraging. When you have 20-30 enemies running a train on you, you just can't help but laugh.

All people have to do is learn how to dodge Vel's ball blasts and there goes 90% of the community's complaints.

NiyumiSep 8, 20173 votes

The only thing that kind of irritates me is Skarner kidnapping me or Rek'sai basically stunlocking me. xD Outside of that it's actually really fun, and it almost seems like a game on its own, Riot did a good job with this one.

Shuyin178Sep 8, 20173 votes

The only one I hate is the gigantic Laser Vel'Koz. When they make the box that's fine, but the ones that track you and the one that spawns in at the bridge are annoying.

Fondling GemsSep 9, 20172 votes

I like the skarners except for when you get pulled out a the circle and die, have someone almost die trying to resurrect you, flash back into the circle and instantly get grabbed again and dragged out.

It would be nice if there was a CD timer between the skarner ults, although it is amusing to see skarner's steal you from other skarners and drag you in a different direction.

2Charmnot2CharmSep 8, 20174 votes

Check the rankings of every single person complaining op. They are almost always unranked to gold at best.

NiyumiSep 8, 20171 votes

I'm gold, and I'm not complaining at all outside of Skarner being bullshit.

But then, I come from 14 years of MMOs, so this all feels similar.

2Charmnot2CharmSep 8, 20171 votes

I wasn't trying to insult you, sorry if it sounded like that.

I just mean that most of the people complaining is ether gold or less and all they do is complain instead of asking for tips on how to do better. They rather riot holds their hand by nerfing anything they cant handle and it annoys me.

WoonStruckSep 8, 20174 votes

You have to remember that most people are REALLY bad at this game.

Skarner's are paper.

Chos are slow as hell and only a problem if everyone's dicking around not doing any damage to the point where they pile up.

Rek don't spawn in large numbers, but manage to be one of the few real threats.

Kha is only a problem if your team is doing nothing about them.

Vel is only a problem if people don't try to take care of them. There are only a set few large Vel spawns, and you should be looking to take them out ASAP each time.

Kog is only a problem if people ignore them.

The entire game mode is just being aware. Its not hard at all. It just shows how unaware people are of the things going on around them in the game.

Eternal TormentSep 8, 20173 votes

If people think this is hard. Try playing any dark souls game with contrast Level on 0 and gamma deactivated.

i promise you won't make it past the 3rd boss.

NiyumiSep 8, 20173 votes

Well, Dark Souls was never hard, so... :P

Eternal TormentSep 8, 20172 votes

thats a blatant insulting lie...

NiyumiSep 8, 20172 votes

No, it just wasn't hard. Punishing yes, but not hard.

Sir FuzziSep 8, 20171 votes

Patterns are tough!

WoonStruckSep 8, 20172 votes

He's right. The game has a learning curve, but its not 'hard'. You just have to learn from your mistakes, because you WILL be punished for them.

If you think "hard" is anything that's not braindead these days, I don't know what to tell you.

StarboyˇSep 8, 20171 votes

[{quoted}](name=Eternal Torment,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=TAHYEHX2,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-09-08T20:37:04.537+0000)

If people think this is hard. Try playing any dark souls game with contrast Level on 0 and gamma deactivated.

i promise you won't make it past the 3rd boss.

try playing any game with a completely black screen...

HelmightSep 8, 20172 votes

Agreed. Had a ton of success playing it last night for the first time ever, despite how hard everyone was making it out to be. I figure people'll figure it out sooner or later, but day one's always gonna the roughest.

TrídentSep 8, 20172 votes

Its really fun imo, I love it

Mecha IncognitoSep 8, 20172 votes

I can see how people can be annoyed with the missions requiring premades, but I think the game mode itself is really good. I welcome the difficulty, and it's quite funny seeing 15 velkoz's lighting the map up with random kha's jumping about the place.

Gets my seal of approval.

rework trundleSep 8, 20172 votes

If anyone has ever played Heroic mode in Hearthstone? This is comparable. At least they give us something hard, where you really need to cooperate.

AryzyraSep 9, 20172 votes

If I want to play 5-man PVE dungeon, there are plenty of opportunities for that. Feels out of place with this game. But hey, whatever Riot wants to do. We aren't forced to play game modes. Next one maybe can be a LOL-themed game of Hearts with all the Valentine skins on face cards, for people who like card games.

NiyumiSep 9, 20171 votes

This game itself feels out of place, since there's a massive disconnect between lore and the game, and so many art styles, so many writing styles, so many kits that don't always play nice... the entire game is really not put together well. So who's to say a PvE mode doesn't work? Most people seem to enjoy it.

Shepherd o SoulsSep 8, 20171 votes

The only problem I have is with very specific set ups, like the mission type where you're required to kill everyone while staying in a static circle. The thing about it on onslaught is that it'll place huge velkoz's with the lasers outside or on the very edge of the circle, and then have a bunch of stompers and other assortments inside already. It feels like Wow, do i try to kill all the already spawned mobs that cc lock me and die to velkoz or do i go for velkoz and get killed by everything else. Other than that, onslaught is fine.

Somebody Love MeSep 8, 20171 votes

I love it, but making a comp to do the missions is harder xD like I can't do it without a support or a Jinx. The only mage really needed is Lux to snipe the Velkozes you miss during the traveling levels

Dominus SatanusSep 8, 20171 votes

People are mad not because the game is hard, but because the requirements for the missions are stupid.

Sir FuzziSep 8, 20171 votes

Every game mode, there's scores of people on boards bitching. And every time, you guys-- like it's the first time you've seen people complain about something you might happen to like or be indifferent to-- come out with scores of threads bitching about them bitching. I mean, when does this madness end?

People seem to be in a tiff about premades being required and the way it demands a lot of a comp from the get go (by the sounds of things). All in all, it's probably more a mechanical thing than a difficulty thing; this is a MOBA, and things that break MOBA meta (even as simple as ARAM) are bound to generate all kinds of results.

Soraka RulesSep 8, 20171 votes

Thats because they're casual and can't problem solve/figure out strats. Like for example, build Ardents and full hp +cdr on poppy and you can heal your carries...

Or my favorite one- Damage the boss and ignore the spawns... only for the boss to spawn more spawns after taking more damage

CatastropSep 8, 20171 votes

[{quoted}](name=Ella Cinderella,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=TAHYEHX2,comment-id=000a,timestamp=2017-09-08T23:15:58.223+0000)

Like for example, build Ardents and full hp +cdr on *poppy" and you can heal your carries...

Wut

Mecha IncognitoSep 8, 20171 votes

Take stoneborn pact - heal allies when you cc enemies - proc ardent.

rework trundleSep 8, 20171 votes

Still sounds weird, she's a tank, not an enchanter. If it works though, I don't see the problem :p

SanKakUSep 9, 20171 votes

She doesn't have any use for the AP and I'm not sure how she plans to heal herself.

CatastropSep 8, 20171 votes

Ah, completely forgot about that.

NiyumiSep 9, 20171 votes

You can build an Ardent on Lux as well, Pact on Syndra, Gunblade on any of the mages, BT / BORK on the ADCs, etc.

CatastropSep 8, 20171 votes

No one would care about the difficulty if it wasn't for the retarded premade requirement.

That aside I can see where the outrage is coming from, this isn't an MMO where hotboxes are exactly what the animation looks like, so a bullet hell phase is justifiably getting the salt it deserves.