Is it me or League is fun again? late game is back?
https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/dydXjv21-i-just-cant-play-league-anymore
remember this thread? yeah i remember it, and everything i said is no longer viable today
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look carefully, look at the duration of the games i didn't do the maths but this looks like the average duration of games looks like 30 min before my games ended at 15 or 20 min WITHOUT OPENING MID i didn't have a single game ending at 15 min
http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/infographics/patch-7-12-infographics
35 min games are the highest amount of games before it was 25 min during league of lethality
"but this isn't late game" YES IT IS, because riot increased the generation of gold since 2 years now, you get an insane amount of gold at 35 min
not only this, but if you look closely at the games, i don't remember a game being won by snowballing hard without the enemy team being able to do anything, i think there is only one with irelia. most of the time it's a close game without snowballing, games are won by winning teamfights by outplaying and outminding enemies hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P7-1QXLo3Q
this is an example of a game won by winning a teamfight, and by enemy team doing a mistake, not because of snowballing we were losing gold wise, but we won the game in the end because we kept playing good and focusing the good targets ect...
before, every lane would snowball thanks to lee, then we 5 man push mid and nothing could stop us
you couldn't take hypercarries, now vayne is being picked, tristana is being picked jax is being picked
now to win, you have to outplay, dodge skillshots, positioning, kiting, target selection , outmind your enemies by doing sneaky barons for example catch out of position people and all of that was not here before i legit said to malicious 2 months ago that i wasn't playing league, i was just playing thresh, landing hooks to my adc and snowball the game while being afk in the brain the strategic game is back, and i'm having so much fun
the only sacrifice i have to do is accepting that i can't dive the backline as renek anymore, i have to use
protect my marksman
and sadly this brings a frustration , because one of the game i lost was by a syndra getting caught by an ahri using ult+charm while she tried to poke the enemy team with a Q or Q+E or w/e
if your carries IQ is 0 you legit lose the game and it's frustrating
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however i'm willing to take this, while getting my late game back, getting my 40 sec teamfights back, the strategy that i love and the show of skill_
my only advise is to play league as much as you can, because we ALL KNOW here that it's going to disappear soon, riot will fuck up the game again, in 2 months, in 2 years, it's going to happen
an example of what i'm talking about: https://youtu.be/hmq3kyKyVF8
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etc. For me anyway, having fun is being able to out play my opponent. Being able to trade and counter incoming attacks is what makes this game fun. That's why i enjoy
so much.