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I'm not a hate Rito Guy. . .

RobbieFry13·2/13/2019, 5:17:14 PM·3 votes·962 views

but is it just me or is this season awful and getting worse? I never used to complain about match making but both ranked and normals have been really weird since the new season started and the snowballing is worse than it has ever been in the time I have played. I know I am not good but even losing can be fun if the game is competitive, these games lately are always so lopsided even winning is boring. bad enough they deleted my Favorite champs, and replaced them with these guys but right now in low elo solo que the the whole tank meta is basically gone, almost every game I play has 8 assassins and/or marksmen. (yay lane diversity!) I guess with all the changes maybe things will even out but when? and why would i keep playing until then. There are other more fun things I could be doing like getting a rectal exam, or jury duty, and once people stop playing do they ever comeback?

Is anyone else seeing this too or am I just in a LOL funk?[zombie-nunu-tears]

6 Comments

Butterwood2/13/2019, 5:24:24 PM2 votes

I'm seeing a lot of complaints, but matchmaking in ranked seems exactly the same to early last season. Early season has more trolls and random outcomes, and by summer time it starts to level out.

heroikc2/13/2019, 5:41:31 PM1 votes

I know the feeling, but after their shenanigans last season, Riot is opting for a more careful approach in trying to balance and change the game. In summary, it's going to be a while before I could go full on Poppy Ornn Gragas , or even top lane in general.

Saezio2/13/2019, 6:46:14 PM1 votes

Love the exaggeration. If I go to your match history, how many games with only 2 people not being assassin or marksman will I find? You say almost every game Let's see if you are a liar

ChaosReyn2/13/2019, 8:58:28 PM1 votes

You actually see marksmen other than Ezreal , Kaisa or Vayne ?

weird.

Though it also makes sense...originally, adcs went mid anyway. And if my Caitlyn can fare better mid lane than bot lane against the trio of scum above, I'd do it too. It'd be an interesting thing from my perspective to be able to play once again an adc that didn't revolve around spamming their abilities as hard and fast as possible, cause last I heard, ability spammers were casters not marksmen.

What I don't like more than anything though is Riot's sense of balancing around the LCS profits more than the people. As "careful" as they're being, we got to this point because the LCS needed explosive teamfights, faster games, constant action and so on...and this change with the support items in particular INFURIATES me because it's absolutely groundless. The top lanes they "hotfixed" them for were LOSING money in the long run, and if they didn't get kills or assists from jungle ganks, they'd be left SCREWED...so instead of trying to get people to learn to play against some bullshit Korean cheese strat, let's just COMPLETELY BONE THE SUPPORTS in the long term. They're already mostly known to be weak, and they already get enough abuse from their teams over vision control as it is...so let's HALF their vision score, make them CHOOSE between sweeper or ward trinket instead of taking sweeper and keeping their ward item, and completely gut their gold generation whenever their adc turns out to be more of a glorified cannon creep for the enemy team. AT LEAST THE PRO GAMES WILL HAVE MORE SURPRISE GANKS!

Except...aren't ALL ganks supposed to be surprises? And while I'm on the subject: are supports the only ones with warding trinkets, or did their teams unbind that key to justify blaming the supports for their deaths?

I can't only blame Riot though. A lot of the issues are also caused by the people that don't want to be bothered to learn how to play on a higher level than what they are. THEY'RE the ones crying til Riot hotfixes a (pretty dumb imo) strategy that isn't meta enough for them...