Is it me or League is fun again? late game is back?

Ahristocats··6 votes·823 views

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 item 3193 item 3190 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 _ 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

11 Comments

Aseeya5 votes

People adapt, and then drag the game out to fit their comfort zone.

Hopefully we can keep 30 minute matches, they are a lot more fun than 15 minute ones.

ChaosThief3 votes

I'm very much sick of a few early kills and my teammates calling game over immediately. Longer matches tend to be more well rounded.

Tobias Brackner1 votes

This.

Personally I think all the fast games and snowballs were the result of people adapting to the changes being made.

Critmaster Garen2 votes

most of the games in your history lasted around 20 minutes.

in season 2 that was when midgame started and the lane phase ended. also, the fighters that havent been straight up booted out of the game cant carry anymore.

they merely act as secondary supports for marksmen. so yea, the patches since the tank update have been some of the worst ive ever seen.

3 classes of champions have been put on the chopping block and marksmen buffed for no reason.

assassins, juggernauts and divers are trash and cant do anything anymore, half the tank roster is garbage aswell.

AR URF2 votes

what's fun is not winning or losing, but the outplays. I never understood how someone can have fun with Veigar or Swain or Amumu 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 Yasuo so much.

Ahristocats4 votes

veigar can't outplay someone? wait, do people think veigar still kill with only R?

chipndip12 votes

You're kinda late to the party.

You get the fights your team invests in. If you're a team full of glass carries and maybe one fighter, you'll get popped. If you actually have a thorough comp, you'll last longer. I never got these complaints about team fight length because I was getting a good deal of long games to compliment my short ones. Play things that last if you want to last through fights.

AL0001 votes

no, it's because they don't ff while you guys got snowballed.

Big Lincoln1 votes

just you fam

i'd rather play league of lethality than what we have right now

Report for Wuju1 votes

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