Riot again proves they don't want to fix the game
From meddler gameplay thoughts. Question: "Will patch 8.10 (which contain crit item changes) also touch on melee crit user ? (Yasuo/Trynd mainly)"
So the guy asks about meele but meddler is answering at the beginning about crit items rework as a whole.
Answer: "Some crit item impacting changes (it's mainly IE/ER) will be in 8.11. They'll be on the PBE from 8.10 onwards, but will be there for two patch cycles for extra testing and feedback rather than the usual one. Changes have considered melee crit users, at present we don't have any proactive changes (buff or nerf) in place for them though. Current plan is to see where they land and add or remove power as needed (don't think they'll be too out of line either way)."
What we can see from this is obvious lack of changes that need to be done to nerf ADCs. So crit item changes will be only for IE and ER. Meanwhile while zeal items are even more problematic. But apperantly riot already abandoned nerfing ADCs and making them doing less dmg to squishes mid/late.
The patch hasn't even come to the cycle and they already shown us that they don't intend to fix ADCs at all but just slightly power shift things at best which they will call nerfs to say fk off to players who wanted them to be balanced.
But here is another one which completely makes me sure they just want to keep the game as it is and don't intend to balance it at all.
Repertoir:
”The game needs a lot of things. Better exploration around shielding, the champions that utilize shields, and the items that empower shields could get us a lot of gains. We unfortunately didn't come to a good solution that was of appropriate scope to get into the game before midseason, at which point it didn't make sense to try to also squeeze that into midseason efforts. I understand why that explanation will be unpopular. I also would have preferred we came to a proper solution."
Excuse me? Is this some kind of a joke? You announced the changes to shield when we were love at patch 8.5 you had 4 one cycles to create and test the changes, you still have 2 more before mid season patch. What is even more enraging is how easy the solution is and there are more than one you could test. They were all around on boards. Lower shield duration. Shield disappearing over time since the very beginning. And of course nothing has been done. And now they try to make themselves look like a victims of bad community with explanation that is attempt to get our sympathy with "we know this explanation will be unpopular". Trying to pretend they know they fked up and are really sorry. No you re god damn not. You don't want to fix shields because you must keep them broken as freelo for casuals/noobs who want to climb for free as well as for auto fills and e girls.
Stop pretending like you care. You had a lot of time to get those changes in. You just straight up refused to do them. I believe no internal tests were even done especially after silence that came after announcing shields changes coming in 8.6. no shields came and no info about it. They were simply not even tried. You refuse to nerf shields. I know you can't say what you would like to say "fk players, shields stay broken". At least don't pretend you are trying to do something with the matter. From 8.6 to 8.11 there is 5 patches. You had all the time in the world and good solutions around. I assume that off really any testing was done then you noticed that shields finally have counterplay and you refused to ship them because of it.
Tldr:mid season patch won't bring any meaningful changes to ADCs problem nor shields problem. Riot is already rpvoing right now that what they hyped about being big changes and nerfs for adcs and shields is just a fairy tail or barely a placebo power shift incoming.
