OK Riot.. & Every Reader.
Instead of giving Stonewall a bad time for his gameplay footage, which is not as bad as some think. Let's think about the impact this has on all players.
First, Stonewall is a very capable and skilled player who is more capable than 90% (( and that is being very generous to players)) of Ranked NA. If hes having problems, which are obviously happening, it doesn't matter how much more damage he could of avoided as a pro, 90% of NA players are going to do just as bad or worse.
And if you want to look at it as, maybe its just NA who cant handle this, think again. People all over the world are shaking their heads at these mechanics. Even Koreans. And they are Demigods.
Now obviously I'm not going to go into how bad NA is, we all know it. But we have to agree that if the rest of the world is troubled with these changes, chances are there is a problem and we shouldn't just brush it off as 'oh that footage wasn't the most pro thing I could have seen'
If it were incredibly pro footage would you have a problem? NO. You would think there is no problem because he breezed through it!
Instead of trying to ignore the problem, Players. Think about it like this. If you're in Gold I or lower, this probably will effect you badly. ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE IN BRONZE AND SILVER OR UNRANKED.
You need to actually consider that people are going to find the jungle so undesirable, now that the Jungler is completely alone, very in danger of losing his camps due to enemy invades and unable to even contest them, and if not that, no one will even leash for him in the start because the timers are no longer worth waiting for if you have lane minions to farm.
Pre S5 players will lose interest in the position because its difficulty is not what they are used to. New players starting in Season 5 will not be able to utilize it until they hit 30, undoubtedly leading to their whole leveling period being even more toxic than what its like to have a new player. Remember when you took Taric Mid back in your first game of League? Want to see a new player Die to the Razor-Beaks every few minutes and rage quit every time you go to level a smurf?
Team_Builder is going to be ousted, because no game will ever start because nobody will ever say "Lets go and play in the jungle, I'm excited to be treated like dirt for not being able to clear my jungle without going back and losing my blue buff because the enemy ADC and support had 3 whole minutes to take it freely before I could even attempt it.'
I'm a fatalist and I see the worst possible outcome in scenarios. I know this when I write all this out. But if you try to blow it off as I'm overreacting you should look really hard at the people around you in your next match and don't try to tell me you don't see how a person could come to this conclusion.
I want Riot to see this and ask themselves, If our Userbase was toxic when the game was fun for every player, how bad are they going to get when a position becomes undesirable?
And no, Support was not this kind of Undesirable. NOT BUILDING DAMAGE AND ACTUALLY HELPING YOUR TEAM, 'I DON'T LIKE THIS' says most players, is not the same as I CANT KEEP UP WITH THE OTHER PLAYERS AND MY ABILITY TO EVEN HELP THE TEAM IS GONE 'I DON'T LIKE THIS'
If you want to reward the act of team invading the jungle, Fine. Go ahead. But aside from the Invade-capable champions who excel at level 1 jungle invades, you have about 60 champions who are getting the crap end of the stick. Just like 4 out of 5 enjoy the game their playing and the 5th guy is like, why is my job so hard, i should become a professional (Opt.) Laner so I can enjoy the game again.
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Tee these changes if left unchecked and only slightly modified to still increase the overall difficulty without offering better incentive, Lower ELO (for lack of a better term) players will start to demand Duo top and bot lanes, say screw the jungle, and the overall feel of ranked games will deteriorate into why even bother. Solo Queue is even more pointless.