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@Riot | Steps for League's future and readdressing philosophy

Elohaven··5 votes·2,051 views

League is in a pretty bad state right now. You went from a really good pre-season to a pathetic state. You should have listened to the community in Pre-Season rather than Hashinshin.

All these issues stem from ignored complaints despite Riot's philosophy being listen to the community:

  • Toxic events like Brand support [Stated by content creators]
  • Conqueror abuse
  • Tanks being removed in SoloQ due to Conqueror
  • Ignite being a mandated summoner spell in every lane
  • Too much damage due to the removal of resistances from old runes, decreased base stats, and an increase in damage repeatedly [Stated by pro-players]
  • Runes dealing too much damage (Electrocute vs Thunderlords)
  • Baron is a joke [Stated by pro-players]
  • Towers are useless [Stated by pro-players]

You wonder why LCS is losing viewership. Well, that's because nobody understands what's amazing or not anymore because you keep changing everything. Pro-players will always just play safe instead of going for flashy plays because now one mistake means the game due to how hard snowball is due to damage.

Now compare all these complaints to:

  • RIGHT THROUGH THE FUCKING COUNTERSTRIKE

Which initiated Jax buffs, Conqueror, Riot Tryndamere coming in, and all these changes that failed. Conqueror hasn't even got toplaners into a better state. It made a few monstrosities and the rest can't use it properly. In addition, everyone else who can't really abuse runes due to lack of Fervor get thrown out toplane.

You were starting off great. Runes Reforged fixed the horrid rune system from before in terms of the ranked barrier but it didn't keep its benefits of sustainability. You instead used it as an excuse to introduce more snowball and damage. Next, you kept moving forward with changes without addressing past issues. Now League is in this pathetic state.

The only thing to really do now is take it slow, re-evaluate, and get community feedback on what's needed.

5 Comments

Krully2 votes

all they had to do was make runes free, they already did that with tier 1 and two

KKilroy1 votes

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League is in a pretty bad state right now. You went from a really good pre-season to a pathetic state. You should have listened to the community in Pre-Season rather than Hashinshin.

Alright, now I agree with the rest of your post, but Hashinshin isn't a bad player by any means, nor is he a player who JUST complains that top lane needs buffs. He brings up excellent points about the state of the game and the entire reason Hashinshin complains about the counter-strike of Jax is for a legitimate reason. There are bugs where attacks go through counter-strike and it's been in the game for years. But otherwise yeah, I agree with your post.

Automated Riven1 votes

Toplane was garbage in preseason. Your saying that they shouldn't have listened to hashinshin but that tells me that either you play tanks, or you have no idea what toplane was like back then.

Elohaven1 votes

You missed my point.

Better suggestions to the game state for toplaners was made over Hashinshin's rant.

The issue with Hashinshin is that he has dropped in skill mainly because he simply wants to split-push and burst everyone in a solo-lane without interaction. Not only did Riot respond to his Jax request to indicate they gave in to his rant, they designed Conqueror exactly to his playstyle:

  • An uninteractive splitpushing rune allowing you to immediately stomp anyone who comes into lane

Everyone knows toplane was in a shit state - but it still is. Just slightly better. Most of its roster is still nonexistent and tanks are obsolete unlike pre-season. That section of the post is to signal the start of Riot's slow pitfall into our current state.

Notice how Conqueror goes against current design philosophies and old.

People recommended better alternatives and said true damage from Conqueror is unhealthy from the game. It goes against good design and one of the key aspects the old design team had. Yet, these posts were seen as hate for toplane or Riot design team hate when it simply was that Conqueror was not a healthy alternative. A reiteration of Fervor, like they did with Warlords and FFW, would of been best.

People suggested and got ignored.

I don't know if you got my point but there it is. There were better ways to address toplane and that's just one example. Riot should of taken time and re-evaluated everything before just immediately trying to satisfy and shift the meta so fast.

Automated Riven1 votes

All of what you said is true. Ish. However I have to disagree with preseason being good. IMHO the entire runes reforged has been a complete failure. It's restricting champion pick, it's has not diversified playstyles. And it has caused more problems for the game then it has solutions. I just want the whole rune system reverted. At least the old one was easier to balance around.

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