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@Riot, Please consider bringing back some of the classic parts of League...

Dreadlocks·4/16/2018, 5:33:52 PM·43 votes·11,663 views

After season 4, the game slowly went on a decline in my eyes.. The game itself has changed so much since then. Hell, i wanna go back to the days where Ignite top was pretty meta.. Shyvana vs Renekton top. Classic shit right there..

Zed mid, split push late game, Top Jax that monster was banned so much.. The game will never be about solo carrying games again until "IMO" top lane is back to having a large impact as a carry role. Not this team fight bs role. I remember when every game wasn't tank/adc 5v5 mid in pro play.. Granted we had mid laners farm most the game with endless mana from bluebuff, i think id take that over what we have today lol.

I remember when jungle was a pretty unique role for specific champions. The ones that had a good way to avoid wards to get to the lane they wanted to gank. Now we have blast cones and shit that just let pretty much every champ jungle (exaggerated, but point should be clear)

solo q waas more than just 5v5 deathball as well, I remember fearing Nasus, Trynd, Jax, Fiora (before the time of her rework) split pushing to the nexus and winning games like that. Now if you tried to do that you just flat out lose.. Its almost impossible to pull that off anymore. The game isn't exciting in that way anymore. Its just deathball after deathball over and over. Why were poke comps removed? Varus mid, ezreal, nid spears, Ziggs, Xerath, Jayce. Idk al the reasons behind why they arn't good at poke anymore, aside from direct nerfs. There is baron buff that makes poking less viable. (baron was changed and pretty much makes ap poke useless) healing is pretty insane.. Redbuff is like a mini warmogs late game. Jesus even if you lose a lot of HP you can regen super fast with that thing.

I just feel like Riot is over-complicating everything, and having the reverse effect that they are looking for. They try to make things more difficult but instead everything becomes easier, champion diversity is lower, and player skill expression is punished.

Bring back: poke comps, split pushers, sightstone, green wards. Remove "plants" - blast cones, gushers plant, vision sweep. Remove the magical entrances that only your team can enter and leave at your base. Rework Dragon and baron, (i kind of like the balance of rift personally) Rework the jungle closer to that of season 4, (less gold/xp per camp but spawn faster) and get rid of these smite upgrades.. Redsmite is and has always been overpowered in solo Q, and Green was obviously going to be the choice in pro play since it was released. -> Nerf crit items for adc, and give them alternative ways to be apart of the game other than building 70% crit asap. I remember when Banshees was a solid last item on ADC, beserker boots were more standard, and lifesteal was actually worth buying in more than just cases QSS is needed.

League has become far more complicated than it needs to be. Bring back some simplicity to the game and let the champions and players make each game unique instead of adding all these mini games inside the ol' League of Legends. I think it would be really cool if Riot decided to do some backtracking back to their roots, before they decided to start changing it drastically.

I'm not going to get into runes, even though its another thing that once again has the opposite effect that they were going for. (imo) I just think they need to stop changing the game so much. StarCraft 1 was fun for 20 years and they didn't need to change the game to do it.. League of Legends is fun, and you don't need to keep altering the game to make it fun.

42 Comments

BALDG1VEN BOOMER4/16/2018, 6:57:19 PM22 votes

Not sure if I ever met someone who said they truly enjoy League after 5.18.

But it’s been almost three seasons, they surely have their priorities in check.

Draehl4/16/2018, 6:58:35 PM15 votes

I'd settle for fights that lasted longer than 3 seconds.

MysticDreams124/16/2018, 7:08:14 PM13 votes

And bring back Teambuilder! That would probably take some of the non meta trolls and toxicity out as well, so people aren't ruining games because they want to take Yasuo bot or something like that. That way, they can join a team that wants them or doesn't care.

I really miss that part of League, it made things fun especially when people liked to take my pick of Sejuani support.

Sigh. The good ole days :(

Sõna4/16/2018, 11:36:05 PM7 votes

I want old rune system to come back, but I know it's not going to be back anymore. I have missed the unique runes for my champs..

TTv Koddok4/16/2018, 7:52:52 PM7 votes

I feel like this applies here as well,so I'm gonna copy-pasta something I just posted in another thread.

"I honestly feel like at this point Riot should just do what Jagex did; Release 'Classic League'.

No flashy map. No multiple dragon types that give random buffs. No piss-ass Nashor that dies in 4 seconds. All champs sure, but also all items that currently and ever have existed, with the most updated versions of them, and most importantly... The old MMR and ranking system. Where you were allowed to actually win a game for your team if you were good enough to beat the entire enemy team by yourself because you did not belong in the rank that you were in, for whatever reason.

I can see it now 'But what will happen to current League player base?' Nothing. All of the newbies who picked League up in the last season or two will still play modern League, but the oldies like a lot of the streamers and myself included who have played since beta, 1, and 2, will gladly go back to the glory days of old runes, masteries, and macro play emphesization."

ZephyrDrake4/16/2018, 7:38:38 PM4 votes

rito please bring back the more unbalanced game that we had before but our sugar coating of it and blindness of it makes it look like it was actually better than what we have now! please rito bring back the same things that we complained about before so that we can comeback and complain about then again

Aptest4/16/2018, 8:38:28 PM4 votes

I think there is one big obstacle in making classic league a reality. I want to see riot make this attempt: But I predict a failure.

Why is this? Because I think the beneficiaries of the game mode are the jax and rengar players. But you have to convince the Janna and Ezreal players to also come and play, otherwise you'd just wait for your turn at mid with all the other mid mains, and grind your teeth at being last pick, again, and having to play support in a "season 4 rengar" meta.

I know i'd love to play season 4 league again as a support... but season 4 Rengar is a fun killer for me and I won't go into games where he's in.

Other support and ADC players? They will probably have different triggers than mine, but triggers nonetheless. Seasons 3-4 were the teambuilder seasons, and teambuilder failed specifically because of the lack of support and adc players.

That being said, pick order and grind your teeth and wait your turn, i think that is not such a bad idea. I think that should come back to league of legends and replace our "role select" system.

Fear the Kayn4/17/2018, 5:29:13 AM2 votes

Season 2 classic servers.

Emo Twink4/17/2018, 7:01:39 AM2 votes

I mean poke comps are fun imo but you saw how people whined about Zoe..

JavScr1P74/17/2018, 8:09:53 PM1 votes

Personally I still like League of OG's.

Risen294/16/2018, 10:58:52 PM1 votes

What was so different about season 4 and 5 that changed in 6? Can it be nailed down to a core problem, or a few core problems?

FrostQueensPlane4/17/2018, 1:41:02 PM1 votes

you think you want it but you don't actually want it

Athenes Lulu4/17/2018, 8:02:22 PM1 votes

One day when poke lanes are actually poke lanes again, and not kill lanes in disguise.