The bounty system is horrible.
The bounty system is absolutely terrible and incredibly frustrating. The fact that I am picking up 500g bounties just for farming is one of the dumbest/frustrating things I have ever seen in a video game.
Like look at this. I'm 3/1/0 with 247 CS. I have 10.9k. My lane opponent is 2/3/1 174 CS 9.8k. I'm only ahead 1000 gold with a 1 kill lead and a 70 CS lead. If it wasn't for the tower advantage my team had I'd probably be exactly even on gold this game. How is this even possible?
The bounty system is what made this possible. I was up 3-0 on my lane opponent in lane. And because of that + my CS lead I was worth an 850g bounty.
It took me 20 solid minutes to build up a kill and CS lead. I spent 20 minutes slowly working hard and playing correctly to build this lead on my lane opponent.
But then after 1 single gank. 1 death in 20 minutes. I am now even on gold with them.
They made mistakes over and over again for 20 minutes letting me slowly build a lead. And then after 1 gank I am now even on items and possible even behind now.
But oh it gets even better. Because of a small skirmish that happened in the jungle only a few minutes after this. My lane opponent got an assist(not too bad its just an assist). And then threw out 1 single shock blast and picked our fed ADC off in the jungle for 800g on their bounty.
Jayce just got 1650 gold. From 2 kills. I never got a kill for the rest of this game. And I ended up having a 500g+ bounty on me still just from playing correctly.
Why in the hell is this a part of the game. It literally took me 20 minutes farming to build this lead. And now Jayce is ahead of me on gold and I'm still worth a 500g bounty in the end. This is incredibly frustrating to deal with. I basically just wasted the first 20 minutes of the game. If it wasn't for my teams massive objective lead at this point in the game I would have actually been behind on gold because of these stupid 800g+ bounties. This should not be in league of legends.
