@Riot I'm really looking forward to the preseason changes
Now my two weeks ban only looks half as bad.
I'm really looking forward to get even more agency taken away from me. Yes, i'm obviously talking about the vision nerfs (again). We are at a point where it is getting ridiculous and i'm not even gonna talk to people trying to defend this.
Like let's look back, what was the "problem" riot described to nerf vision initially? It is very powerful in high elo and pro play and leads to uninteractive gameplay while low elo really doesn't use it. let's not talk about the fact that what riot wished for to happen NEVER happened. Proplay didn't get bloodier when riot nerfed vision to the ground no pros just never went for kills ever they would just farm and waveclear all day long. One of the major and earliest real fuckups of riot that haunt this game until this day, this one pile of shit where other shit gets piled upon to make it stick. Just think back what happened and what riot has done and changed and nerfed so people stop farming all day long. Yeah nerf vision even further, nerf waveclear, nerf sustain, nerf everything because they want this game to be Call of Duty or Leaguenite.
From the individual player in soloQ you take away a lot of agency and especially from solo laners. We have this disgusting meta ever since you fucked up the jungle in s7 to never really get to play league because whenever you try to play league the jungler comes and just kills you. From ten different entrances, over walls, with dashes, plants whatever. What we have right now is really the absolute minimum of vision necessary to keep this game going without it being an absolute RNG shitfest.
I don't really see the point in nerfing vision even further. At the core this game is STILL supposed to be a strategy/fighting game and not a Call of Duty bloodbath moba otherwise you can just give me a killstreak nuke. Like, i'm not sure if your current "balance" team even knows what league is? League is a GAME that is MEANT TO BE PLAYED. It is not a movie or something no no it's actually a thing that is supposed to be played but noone plays something that is straight up unfun. Having zero control over your game is not fun. Noone enjoys getting permaganked because you simply don't know where the enemy is. Noone enjoys getting oneshotted from FoW or a brush. People play league because they ACTUALLY WANT TO PLAY. Can u get this into your thick heads? We want to PLAY LEAGUE not WATCH LEAGUE.
I just don't get it. Why is vision nerfed again? Am i really the only one who enjoyed vision wars? Am i the only one who actually LOVED feeling and seeing you won important parts of the map? Like actually feeling to be in control of the enemy topside jungle because it is warded and the enemy is barely able to enter it without getting killed? Seeing the actions and movement of your enemy based on the knowledge they don't have vision? It made this game SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING and fun to play. It was something that actually gave you incentive to FIGHT. It was a way to get in control but also a way to fight your way back into the game. Making brave plays to get back in control of the map. Constant skirmishes around vision and map control. What is now? Everyone just gets caught off here and there all the time because you just have no vision and if you lost the vision you never come back because you have to wait two minutes for your 60 seconds ward. Another reason why this game feels so snowbally because you never get back in control there is simply no way to get back into control. Before you could spam green and pink wards to get some general information back and work your way back into the game. This obviously also works for the winning team in the other direction that really never gets into control and why games feel so random when you are actually winning and suddenly someone gets caught off and dies randomly and now you lose a won game. FUUUUUUUN. Hahaa i just lost because we had no vision and got randomly caught hahaaa this is so entertaining.
As my second point I as a trinity bruiser enthusiast just want to thank you riot for teasing new bruiser items, nerfing trinity/sterak to shit and never bring the items back. Or different items or anything at all. Just don't mention it anymore and hope people don't notice. I love that attempt. Just nerf something in advance cuz fuck bruisers and never talk about it again.
For those interested, the other PBE stuff i heavily dislike:
Random massive dmg buffs to sejuani.. eh okay. Ezreal gets his ult to be a massive global AOE magic dmg nuke. That's what we need, even more dmg. Like has anyone ever been hit by a point blank lvl 2/3 ezreal ult as a squishy? Now everyone gets the full dmg haHAAA. What is this? Ornn changes? Ah even more % max hp dmg. Exactly what a tank needs. Melees love getting hit for 30% max hp dmg whenever they try to walk up to a minion. Also the passive i don't know seems like a half assed attempt to me that really isn't thought through properly. Atleast you keep bone plating but shield bash still seems like a stupid idea.
Also, is there anyone else who feels kinda mocked by the current patch notes? How they say yeah the leblanc nerf is basically nothing but because of preseason changes there is no need to nerf her properly. Like are u really trying to tell us 6 magic resist from runes will now balance her forever?
Whatever, there is more i wanna talk about but this is supposed to initially be about the vision changes i really hate to see but i kinda got lost in my thoughts. I'm also still at work so it might be written a bit confusing because i had to do it fast without anyone noticing hehexd. Gonna try to get my points better across in the comments if possible.
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