This has to be asked. Everyone who has been around a long time says it sucks compared to prior seasons... and as someone who hasn't been around that long, I can't have an opinion on that. But, ultimately, do y'all think it's a bad game, or just worse than it once was? I think it's good in it's current state, but I can't compare it to earlier.
I hate the nerf to jungle experience. It is so unbelievably slow to level. And it's made even slower by ganking. Made even slower by the likelihood of failing said ganks.
Oh, and I freaking despise the fact that every crab spawn is now a fucking team fight to the death over what amounts to a single jungle camp!
I loved season 4 and some of season 5.
The problem with league currently is that the most optimal playstyle has nothing in common with normal gameplay.
AD assassin mid=> if the enemy team is smart, they will lock 3-4 tank/juggernaut champs and make the guy ragequit. There is a reason why AD assassins are generally not played in competitive. Noone wants to deal with 1 guy 1 shotting left and right. It doesn't matter how good the X player is, if you can counterpick and counterbuild. So, we have overpowered champions in soloQ that won't be picked in e-sports despite them being good, because they can be countered.
ADCs are overpowered from season 1 and the metagame/general strategy and tactics of the game are pretty stale compared to other mobas (still individual mechanical skill for playing a lol character takes more than playing a generic character from other moba, but there is nothing exciting to do on summoners rift for the old players - the game was already solved by season 2).
The whole runes/masteries system is beyond broken and balance team made some really bad mistakes in the recent years - ADC/mage/assassin patches. Only the juggernaut reworks were good after some balancing.
