The game is broken. (sad face)

Malfeasant·Nov 12, 2015·94 votes·4,079 views

Yep, the game is no longer fun after this patch. I play all roles, finding no joy in any now. Games are all one sided. No doubt in who's going to win, you can tell within the first 5 minutes who wins. No chance for comebacks, no late game. Smush or be smushed. (yawn) Mastery tree was ruined. Ever play WoW and see how it went belly up after the game was dumbed down? Time to cater to the masses of dummies. Well it was fun while it lasted. Thanks for that. Goodbye.

Side note- I can see how team fights can be "tighter" so to speak, meaning.. No room for error. But riot needs to realize this only applies to tournaments & world championships where there is virtually no lag, via lan. However the majority of players are all around the world, using various isp, where there is lag. Not to mention server lag... (cough)

53 Comments

BALDG1VEN BOOMERNov 12, 201516 votes

While I would agree the game state Isn't in the brightest spot right now keep in mind this is just ONE of the MANY upcoming patches we are going to have before the season OFFICIALLY begins. It is preseason.

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

AbrahamBaconhamNov 13, 20157 votes

Literally the most reasonable post in the thread and it has 3 downvotes.

Keep it classy, guys.

Specter027Nov 13, 20158 votes

Just wish game wasn't unplayable for 2 months while they patch the problems

iTziLLiRLNov 13, 20152 votes

hmm? if you play any AD's at all, even AD's in jungle like shaco or yi, you're going to have a good time. sure early game is hard for jg but it picks up real quickly after lvl 4(assuming you have proper runes

Static DuckNov 14, 20152 votes

so.. unplayable for 1/2 the champs that are AP is an acceptable game condition then?

iTziLLiRLNov 14, 20151 votes

have you watched diamonds + play AP's they're still viable... they still work... they just cost more to get their items. that's it... that's really it. Last patch most AD's were troll in the jungle or mid or top... AD casters or assassins were troll picks besides a select few like yi, or zed, jax and akali were rarely played.. im actually seeing jax and akali bans right now.. lmfao. Assassins in mobas are X factors. Question what I Just said about X factor, you will understand why they're the X factor. they go behind the enemy and fuck shit up, it's not the typical type of fighting bruiser+tanks+adc+support peel is. Assassins change the game. ADC got buffed but so did AD assassins and casters. and Assassins are dope. But AP'c still are too. I lost to a fizz earlier 1v1 on my gold 4 smurf(im plat 1 normally) some of these champs are giving me some WTF moments(But maybe the fizz was a smurf not 100% sure, his mechanics weren't outstanding or antyhing)

gwehennaNov 13, 20151 votes

hey, on the plus side, fallout 4!

Craft ZeppelinNov 12, 201514 votes

Im currently having a great time with syndra and sejuani. Like these damn mid adc's and one-timer zed noobs have no idea what they are against.

JxG ShotsNov 13, 201514 votes

I left WoW because they removed the key aspects of the game that made the game challenging, I'm disappointed that they're turning this game into a "take less skill" rather than a more competitive complex game. WoW lost so many subscribers due to the fact that they made too many changes that made the game less challenging. Changing the mastery tree to be more simple is one of the biggest mistakes blizzard made, if anything, make the talent tree more complex. If riot doesn't get their act together then i'll make no hesitation taking my money somewhere else.

iTziLLiRLNov 13, 20153 votes

no actually it's not as simple.. i mena sure when you look at it and you just click to choose.. but some games laning youwill want the 20 health every 20 seconds, some games you will want the dmg, you have to make these choices and if you're playing the mastery system correctly , you should be changing atleast 1 thing. every game. Say for example if you get countered and you just want to farm cuz the talon/zed at mid will fk your ahri.. change your masteries man. don't just go full pure damage build masteries. you gotta change it. Last patch, most people just had 21/9 and just kept it like that even for AP mages, now you can switch it up. even keystones are important, lets say if you play ahri and you get stormraiders surge, you can actually win the match up against zed if you out play him. you catch him in a charm? Q him.. 30% of his health is gone.. now you move 35% faster for 3 seconds that DOESNT decay. Zed ulties you obviously, but you dodge his Q's and his E's.. his ulti does like 100 dmg to you. NOW You can ACTUALLY win the lane. And because you chose sustain masteries you'll just heal the hell up. Everything im talking about right now, is things that are currently in the game that switch up your playstyle like that. Im not speaking bubbles.

This game is a lot more skillful than before. Junglers after lvl 4 are cream cheesing the jungle, and getting increased exp(Machete lvl 1 gives +15 bonus XP, jungle camps were nerfed by 10 xp,upgraded jg item gives + 30 extra xp) Jungle camps armor was nerfed, and they were given MR. You can do true dmg to jungle camps now.(if a monster has 0 armor or 0 MR that's essentially what true dmg is) early game is slower. Last machete gave you like 10 health per second, significantly better than 8% life steal on a 60-80 base dmg jungler with low attack speed. but around lvl 4 or 5? when your base ad goes up and AS goes up.. LS out scales 10 health per second from old machete. and you just GRIND the jungle easiiily - this is very important because with the increased exp and how easy it is to kill it(After lvl 4) you can spend more time ganking and planning out plays than sitting there smashing the jungle mobs(This season armor+ health was nerfed on jungle camps)

SmitemuffinNov 13, 20152 votes

Not really. Stormbringer is just an inferior Deathfire, and that's basically it for AP keystones because one MR item completely removes your ability to drop someone by 30% in two seconds unless you're absurdly fed. And if you are, you're already going to win regardless because the game is that snowbally.

The only champs with keystone options are really for assassins because they don't actually need anything. If you crit, Warlord's is 100% too powerful to pass up. If you heal or shield, you take the resistances increase. Tanks look like they have more viable options, but even that falls apart when you notice that 4% healing on autos every couple seconds is way more than 300 hp on a tank and 8% damage reduction near allies is even better.

iTziLLiRLNov 14, 20151 votes

Seriously.. what kinda AD or AP champ at mid goes spirit visage first item? Maybe if you chose ahri top into a mundo.. yeah you can dsay WTF I CANT KILL THIS GUY he just went spirit visage this game is fckn gay. no its the champ match up. if a zed goes spirit visage first item and you cant kill him... well he cant kill you either and you should be fckn smiling if he's spirit visage first item. Lmfao. that's fckn ridiculous. You're honestly just blowing it up to be bigger than it actually is. you can still nuke AP's and AD's at middle lane by 30% within 2 seconds. You argue this point by saying "1 mr item" no one is going MR the first item, they go ROA, ludens, some AD damage item.. not MR first item that's just you're trying too hard to victimize yourself into thinking this patch is super fucked.

SmitemuffinNov 14, 20151 votes

Seriously, you don't think mages leave lane? You don't think mages teamfight? You think mages ONLY hit the enemy laner at all points of the game always?

Although, you've obviously missed the fact that several AP champs rush item 3001 , particularly assassins

ZenithEinNov 23, 20151 votes

Gonna come right out here with an emphatic NO! Stormbringer is your burst mastery, while Deathfire is your dps mastery. They perform different tasks, though I think the Stormbringer needs a slight buff to bring it more in line, they are not about the same.

MalfeasantNov 12, 201513 votes

I've been around a couple years and never complained about any other patch. This one's different to me..

SmitemuffinNov 14, 20151 votes

Probably because we were still waiting for Fiora and the juggernauts to get sorted out, Worlds was boring and awful because red side had all bans 100% dictated to them due to poor balancing and the mastery changes look like several teams all made a few of them and nobody communicated with anyone else

ISkateBoardINov 13, 201510 votes

GAME IS NO LONGER FUN.

iTziLLiRLNov 12, 20159 votes

I was like a lot of people, I have many posts talking shit about Riot constantly ,pissed off at the patch I think my match history was like 7 losses ina row, I was so demoralized I hated this patch.. but actually this patch makes a lot of sense. you got to play it out tho and learn. Its a little different but you'll catch up if you keep watching. I watched about 4 hours of diamond + players playing my favorite champs and I realized where they shined. I would not recommend playing an AP mage though and going pure damage stats,unless you're snowballing. You HAVE to plan shit out this patch I can't stress this enough you HAVE to. If you choose ahri and you plan from the beginning to go your standards rabadon/zhonya/ludens/void etc and you start dying constantly and sucking and not split pushing and not farming... well you're going to have a bad bad time man... you have to adjust your build and do things differently becuase those items are expensive as fuck now

VerxintNov 12, 20153 votes

I like how you get downvoted for speaking the truth.

People are just whining because they have to adapt to change.

iTziLLiRLNov 13, 20151 votes

yeah, I was like them yesterday, pissed at the patch but eventually they'll see the gem of this patch.

RukazNov 13, 20152 votes

You do realize that global overall gold has increased quite a bit right? They may be more expensive, but if you're playing as well as you normally do, you shouldn't have issues getting items at the rate you used to.

iTziLLiRLNov 13, 20151 votes

its only by like .7 gold every 5 seconds, that gradually increased by like .125 a minute or something and the 2 lowest players on your team get a bonus gold.. it's REALLY not that much man... not to compensate for the increased prices. For example Zhonya + rabadons is a total of 800 more gold than before. .7 gold per 5 seconds only amount to .84 extra gold a minute, or 8.4 extra gold every 10 minutes. 1% of the 800 extra gold you spend on those 2 items. the extra gold isn't that much, so if you build full AP just make sure that hey im snowballing and im farmed and fed. I'm not complaining im glad they nerfed full AP mages, it opens up many different options now. last hitting as amage like swain has never been more easy than it is now

KoKobotoNov 13, 20159 votes

Its so weird too, I WANT to try all the new things but with how games are going (stomp or get stomped) its not exactly enjoyable at all...

YumminesNov 12, 20157 votes

This happens every preseason, and this is what Season 6 now?

Relax. In like a month or so someone will establish a meta and we'll soon go back to the normal play of around 20 champs being played ever and the rest are troll picks if a pro team wants to lose.

Son Olivia HyeNov 13, 20153 votes

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This happens every preseason, and this is what Season 6 now?

Relax. In like a month or so someone will establish a meta and we'll soon go back to the normal play of around 20 champs being played ever and the rest are troll picks if a pro team wants to lose.

this does not happen every preseason. This preseason was a very huge update to the marksmen class and added in some new items and changed everything. I don't remember the other past preseasons to be this impactful on the game.

The PatriachyNov 13, 20154 votes

People forget that everything ends. They will tell you that LoL will be the most popular game forever. It survived black cleaver being broken after all!

The game is so broken in so many aspects right now that I expect this to be the end of LoL as the most popular game. They can't fix all the issues. All we need is a brokenly op champ release and it is gg. Royal flush. They couldn't have got this more wrong if they tried.

I always thought Riot's incompetence (infinitely stacking devourer/release black cleaver/release rengar etc) was just a clever Riot scheme to change the meta or introduce some variety to the game. This patch has proved a lot of Riot employees are just incompetent and they've been lucky because all of the broken shit hasn't occurred all at once in one patch.

LVL 5 PORONov 13, 20153 votes

Same. Good thing Fallout was just released. Honestly, fuck this game. The removal of mana potions was the single most stupid idea Riot has ever had. The people responsible should be fired because they obviously have never played this game. As soon as this was announced, I called it, that RIot wasn't going to properly balance mana across the board. And guess what happened? They fucked that up as well. The only thing Riot has been capable of doing since Magus was removed is ruin this game. I am no longer having fun. Goodbye. I'll give my money to a company that actually knows how to balance a game.

MunchauzensNov 13, 20153 votes

I'm honestly amazed just how many people are raging at this patch. Is it perfectly balanced? No. Is it even remotely balanced? No, its not. A lot of things are pretty imbalanced right now. The super broken things will undoubtedly be nerfed. And I swear, not all the classes and champs people have decided are trash are trash. Personally, I've been having fun trying to develop new builds and actually adapt to the game. I've gotten stomped in a few games, and I've stomped quite a few. Things aren't balanced, but its what, the third day of preseason? Things will change.

Have fun and be patient guys :)

KhaTastrophic QNov 13, 20152 votes

JarvanIV Khazix MasterYi Pantheon Rengar Shaco Udyr MonkeyKing XinZhao LeeSin these dudes are too much buzy farming in jungle cus they dont get enough gold...and also...wards now are everywhere so they cant engage to a gank....they are seen by everyone... Also... Khazix That was my main jungle...with a kill and a clear of all side of my jungle i could buy enough items to have penetration and dmg...to be quite unstopable in the beggining...i had 400 games with him K. av 14.5 almost in every game atleast a quadra and hard carry....now within 2 days i havent won a single fking game....thank you... item 3070

Ketchup25Nov 13, 20152 votes

It's preaseason things are overpowered it well get changed.

OldDirtayNov 13, 20153 votes

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It's preaseason things are overpowered it well get changed.

why does everyone use this as an excuse that the patch doesnt blow?

ettinNov 13, 20151 votes

Exactly. You do realize that this is their intention for the new season and they are rolling it out to test gameplay and bugs. The chances of it changing are slim unless we say something now.

ShahamutNov 13, 20152 votes

Every preseason is like this. And every preseason has these posts. Give it a few months, things will get better. Try to use the boards to give specific feedback for RIOT to sift through.

I personally think that 15% dmg dealt heal on crit is a bit much. should only be like 5-8% in my opinion. The attack speed buff could go down to 15% as well instead of 20%.

Specifically, this is WAY too powerful on Crit adc's, Yasuo, and Tryndamere.

That has been my biggest problem so far this season with things. I fully expected ADC's to be too powerful. There will be nerfs incoming.

ARequestOfDeathNov 14, 20151 votes

they are nerfing it to only heal when hitting champions

ShahamutNov 14, 20151 votes

fair enough I guess. Still think it could be lower though.

SmitemuffinNov 14, 20151 votes

It needs to be cut in half. It would still be twice as good as the similar resolve mastery and even more so for DPS champs

Erotic TerroristNov 13, 20152 votes

Yeah I feel the same way, I haven't had any fun since the pre-season patch. I just find that I'm only getting frustrated in matches and I can't find any entertainment or joy from them. [slayer-jinx-unamused]

Erotic TerroristNov 13, 20153 votes

Thank god for Fallout 4, am I right guys? [slayer-jinx-wink]

kaltenashesNov 13, 20152 votes

i'm bored with lol, because all games have trynda or yasuo or graves and they're stomping everyone every single game.

at least some people arent flamming that much those who fed them, because they know its unacritable.... i mean unavoidable

The DerpensteinNov 13, 20152 votes

I played everyday and enjoyed it so much, ever since the patch I don't even want to log in. That game is way to unbalanced

TwoDNov 14, 20152 votes

go back to wow u pleb

straight4freeNov 14, 20152 votes

I think riot let their success go to their heads. They think that because the original league of legends was popular, anything that they do will be popular.

They've ruined this game. It's hardly even the same game it used to be.

I'm glad I got my diamond border, I'm actually just done at this point.

Call me when Riot gets their heads out of their asses.

SmitemuffinNov 14, 20151 votes

I'm up to 5 friends who've quit and uninstalled because of this patch now

CHOPSTICKUHHNov 14, 20152 votes

Totally agree, they should of never touched the mastery tree

RhanNov 14, 20152 votes

I love you so much for posting this. Just done my work~

DroigNov 13, 20151 votes

Aaah I do feel you. I almost quit in the past thanks to ragers and trolls. But now I think I really will quit if by the time preseason over there isnt basicly a massive massive aka remake of the mastery tree/game but I am not even sure if that would work seeing as how everyone I know who plays has given up on riot with how the harrowing/halloween event happened and now this. So basicly I may forget about about riot by the time they straighten up. (if they do I miss the old riot that cared)