AP Rework In a nutshell and What It's Showing in League of Legends

My thoughts on the AP rework is: Im pissed.

MYMU

All they did was give more to the champions than what they already had. Examples:

Veigar more stacks. Zyra more seeds. Malzahar more minions. Brand more burst damage spells. Velkoz... dunno what they really did with velkoz. just changed how is ulti worked, essentially a nerf imo. Xerath more Es and Rs. Syndra more balls.

These are the ones I can think of on the top of my head.

I have been a malzahar main for a very long time, and now I cannot play him. He was perfectly balanced, then was broken, and now he's useless. His damage overall has been significantly nerfed, and all they did was move his W to his R, nerf both, move his passive to his W, nerf that, and make his passive something stupid that was really just the only counterplay. I have also been a fan of immobile mages, and I've seen each one nerfed or buffed over time anyway, so this stupid stuff just makes no sense to me.

I'm kinda disappointed in the champion reworks. I expected more. The only one I actually felt did something meaningfulish was cassiopeia and vladimir.

As for items, Zhonyas change I like, but the rest of the items are kinda just moving the mana regen/health sustain over for cdr and new actives. I kinda just... feel more and more disappointed with what is happening with the changes. and this MYMU got me thinking about whether league is worth playing anymore...

LCS

I feel like Riot has recently just been disappointing me a lot this season. The LCS is boring to watch, as all the champs you see are the recent buffs. it's not engaging, cause the same comps get drafted each time, and its all about who plays it best, or who gets who. MSI was the perfect example: jungle had 3 picks (nida graves kindred), top had 3 picks (maokai ekko poppy), mid had 3 picks (azir ryze leblanc, even lb barely) and adc had 3 picks (sivir lucian ezreal). support was the only role to watch that mattered, but then the game started and it was the same strategy over and over. There was 0 variety in anything and it was boring to watch. I'm not the only one in my friend group who just doesn't care anymore what happens, and of the 500 friends I have on my main account, a select few of them are still following it, but not passionately either.

REWORKS IN GENERAL

In addition to all this, all the champs are in line for reworks, and annoyingly so, it's the ones who don't really need it who got them. malzahar was in a perfect spot, even before preseason, where he was viable because he wasnt too strong and wasnt too weak, is a good counter pick and has clear counterplay, and is extremely risk heavy. Then the mymu came, and they made him too strong, good pick into even more picks, and has harder to beat counterplay, up until they made him... weak. What I dislike the most is how Riot shoves these picks in our face though, as in THESE ARE THE ONES I WANT YOU TO PLAY NOW GO MY CHILDREN PLAY THEM. The worst part is that rarely do you see anything fun anymore either. It's all super serious now, as in strict guidelines to how they want champs to be played.

DYNAMIC QUEUE

And last but not least, streamers are now playing with each other all the time, and at first I was excited, but now it's boring to watch, cause it's just communication-based playmaking and coordinated strategies in "solo queue" so I can't learn from them, nor do I have to go to other channels anymore to get for example the midlane perspective of Imaqtpie's games. This is not only a streaming problem, but also a ranked problem. I enjoyed it for a while until i realized I was always the one who entered a 4man premade, so the game wasn't in my hands but instead in theirs entirely, and then I had to hope they could communicate better than the enemy premade. How is that fun in a SOLO QUEUE ranked environment, like I really don't understand it. Premades had their place in normals, not in ranked.

WORRIES AND CONCERNS

Thanks to this mymu ive kinda been reflecting, and now I'm just unsure of what I want to do on league. I switched to playing nocturne, but I have a strong feeling he's going to be buffed and then nerfed soon, if not reworked with the assassin rework, so I can't get too attached, like I did with shen and malzahar before riot screwed them both. It's only a matter of time before I'm gonna have to move on again to a different group, and although riot enforces variety, I also want consistency, like if riot's "Balance team" would actually just focus on balancing things rather than making things op and new and stuff, just make them all equal and leave things alone that aren't wrong. Mymu showed me that riot is indeed just... forcing things on me, and it stresses me out. I just want to find champs that I like to play, and be able to play them with confidence that they're going to stay similar. What I hate is that Riot isn't properly doing the match on each release either, and they adjust it in the future patches, and the worst part about it is that it is so obviously intentional, that it irritates me that this is how it will be for at least 2 weeks.

So now I sit here, with my mains being too strong and my new mains potentially being in line for reworks or edits, I just wonder, is it worth it? The only reason I still play this game is because I feel like I have to. I spent a ton of money into this game because I was always eager to try new things, and now I feel like I owe it to myself to not see this spending go to waste. I enjoyed the game so much before the GP and Ryze reworks, and after that, each new decision Riot made has made me wary. I shouldn't be picking up a champion with the fear that they're not going to be the same in a few weeks time. I'm not getting my money's worth, and playing the game to me seems just like a requirement, or something just to kill the time until I discover something better.

CONCLUSION

For now, all I feel is just... betrayed. I feel like League is not giving to it's committed fanbase the way they have been for some time, because they're changing everything. You're forced to adapt, and I accepted that league was going to be like that, but I'm legitimately being shoved into meta picks, like it's the only viable thing. I'm just... bored, though. MYMU just shows me that I'm meant to be bored. It was fun playing malzahar, but now because he's so viable, I rarely get to play him anymore. hooray for reworks. change.