How I feel about Season 8

King Braum··45 votes·13,909 views

So, I might be the only one who feels like this or maybe a lot feel the same but I honestly feel like Season 8 of league is the most unsatisfied I've ever been about the game. every champion seems to be treated like an assassin with most new items seeminly added to make the life of an Assassin that much easier, the meta seems to heavily favor burst champions, teamfights last half a second and your base might aswell be a massive sandcastle as a single good hit will knock it down with ease.

I honestly hate the keystones, half of them favor Assassins even in paths that arent ment for assassins.

Sorcery, Empowers abilities and resource manipulation, you know how many of these actually effect your resources? a total of one rune. one single rune that actually improves your mana or if you want to count gaining CDR, two. in the mean time there are four runes that effect your mobility which is nice for supports and ap assassins but you know who does nothing with that? the everyday caster.

Anivia, Aurelion Sol, Karthus, Lissandra, Malzahar, Taliyah, Velkoz, Xerath, what are they suppose to build? well domination ofcourse, a heavy DPS runeset because being a control mage now means you're a glass cannon whether you like it or not. if you want a path that would give you some more mana you're shit out of luck unless you want to settle for one of two runes, one of which is part of the Precision runepath which more often that not is useless to a caster as none of the runes really help except for the last runes which all grand you more DPS.

im upset, like honestly, I'm sorry for ranting but this is genuinly annoying me. did you know that Velkoz can burst a draven at 6 with two abilities, W R, you know what item you need for it? Rylai's crystal, because Velkoz benifits so damn much from the Domination runes and it was funny when it started but damn how much I hate it now because its just everything I dislike about this, Assassin's cant brust a Velkoz because Velkoz's burst doesnt have a delay meaning a Velkoz can just burst an assassin while they're setting up or in their delay, Katarina, Zed, all powerless against it.

This game has devolved so much towards favoring heavy damage over all else, I've seen more Domination Bard's than I've seen Bard's actually healing allies. I hate it, so much.. as a support main, this hurts me. support has devolved into Burst botlaner. If im lucky, i encounter a healing support like a nami or soraka, to acompany their adc burst botlaner like Jhin, Miss Fortune or Caithlyn. speaking of which Stormrazor is not healthy for this game, giving Jhin two auto crits with his massive damage, is not okay, Zed with an auto crit, is not okay. this item is a joke for anyone that thinks its okay to play anything that cant either kill anything infront of them or tank it to the point where they dont even have to look at it. if you're a squishy champ without damage, you'll be dead half of the time because positioning doesnt even matter anymore with champions running at mach 5.

I just really hate the game where it stands right now because i know it can be so much better. it's upsetting. i want good teamfights back, teamfights that took atleast a few moments, that allowed you to see everything happen in all its glory, i want pushes where you had to risk everything to make a final push because you knew if your enemies respawned you wouldnt be able to come back and those towers would be back to full health. I want carefull planned stategy in botlane where the supports basically played chess against one another as they looked for any weakness on their opponent's side. I want the game back that I fell in love with all these years ago because right now, that love is fading.

20 Comments

Ambient Snow11 votes

Hating it

the Rune system is a joke they keep adding to it and do nothing really to balance it out. To many champions are Way to steam rolly with it. Riot says they want to fix it and keep champions from steam rolling so bad. but then they release runes that literally Do the exact opposite and make it so champions get 1 kill and can just flat out steam roll uncontested

This game right now has some huge balance issues with that fact and it sucks cause it was getting pretty balanced pre new rune system.

some of the Runes i dont mind and are kind of fun but.. i think the latest two batches are just too tilting.. like Conquer Rune i mean even in test realm people were point out how op this rune was making some mele champions and riot still put it out.

its just baaaaahhhh.

My other complaint is the New lvling system.. All riot did was make it easier for people to smurf troll accounts now. one major detour was the fact people had to lvl up before to get quints.. now riot took that away and basically made it super easy .. now every other game i get a damn smurf steam rolling then talking trash to his team and being hateful.

Mimr11 votes

What I dislike most is that Riot is trying out increasingly more ridiculous things in order to balance/ keep the game fresh. First the jungle rework, which while I feel is not all bad just feels... weird and out of place and now they brought URF to ranked and normal SR with the reworked Essence Reaver.

Donnabis10 votes

the games going down hill. jg sucks. supporting sucks. roles suck! to many broken champions, and to many team comps that just break the game. rangar and yas bot lane shouldnt work. but it does! and you as the support or adc cant do anything. rangar sits in the bush while yas gets CS. you try to get EXP or CS? youll get pounced on and bursted out of lane... back to fountain you go, unless you want to get tower dove and killed without any punishment to the other team. did i read that towers were nerffed? WHY? i cant even farm under tower anymore! 1st you nerf soraka, my best support. now shes useless and squishy... and now you buff all assassins and their items? now MF can all in .5 second kill anyone without 300+ armor and 5000HP. MF Q's that do 1000 damage at lvl 6? thats fair...... same with jhin and any other AD champion that can benefit from "armor pen".. after the armor pen change the games just slumped. its dying. and the only reason i still play after being muted because of toxic players blaming me (ADC) for feeding, when they never responded to my "help me"'s and assist me pings. when no MIA pings were given when bot lane tower dove us. no ganks when the enemy jg was in our lane 10 of the 30 minute game. when AGAIN, the tower dove us, with no repercussions! hit by the tower 3 times while they took me from full HP to dead, and got out with half their HP intact. is because all my friends like to play.. thats it! pyke top, quin mid, kai'sa jg, kat and zed bot lane... old roles are dead. and so is league of legends.

GigglesO6 votes

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the games going down hill

I think it has been for 4 seasons or more...

CrazFight 9 votes

This season is so unbalanced its insane, they have to hottix 5 things now adays. I think the balance team is giving up or just dosent know what there doing anymore

BoilTheOil6 votes

I've been saying since the start of season 6 that keystones are fucking obnoxious.

MasterDClone4 votes

So let me get this straight. People spend all of season 7 bitching and whining about how teamfights take forever, tanks are controlling the game and nobody is allwoed to move, blah blah blah. Now riot fixes this by giving damage, mobility and shorter teamfight and these same people start acting as if the way it used to be was an better and how its gone downhill from riot doing exactly what they wanted. Just like when everyone was getting sick of the nonestop buffs and all champions getting too strong riot starts to systematically nerf each role or class to the ground like mages in 8.9, jg as a whole in 8.10 and crit adc's in 8.11 and coming up fighters and bruisers in 8.12. SO everyone just shut the fuck up and accept what you wished.

Now comes the swarm of people telling me that they never wanted any of this it was other people. Bring it on

Rocnation982 votes

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So let me get this straight. People spend all of season 7 bitching and whining about how teamfights take forever, tanks are controlling the game and nobody is allwoed to move, blah blah blah. Now riot fixes this by giving damage, mobility and shorter teamfight and these same people start acting as if the way it used to be was an better and how its gone downhill from riot doing exactly what they wanted. Just like when everyone was getting sick of the nonestop buffs and all champions getting too strong riot starts to systematically nerf each role or class to the ground like mages in 8.9, jg as a whole in 8.10 and crit adc's in 8.11 and coming up fighters and bruisers in 8.12. SO everyone just shut the fuck up and accept what you wished.

Now comes the swarm of people telling me that they never wanted any of this it was other people. Bring it on

I agree, it's absurd to me that literally last week people were complaining about heals & shields stalling the game and the cancer of Janna, and that solo carry is dead. But now that riot is giving them that power people are like, wait WTF. There's a reason tank meta is generally considered the best meta , and it's because ALL roles generally fit well into it. ADC & non assassin mages get to scale for late game. Assassins have the opportunity to snowball early before late game. Jg gets to influence the lanes in a much more impactful way by deciding which lane can snowball.

Madsin252 votes

Dude....rengar is going around ONE SHOTTING like he did 4(?) seasons ago.

Master yi is alpha striking into one shots one after the other.

There is 10000000s of threads saying "please to much dmg riot" and what do they do? Add more.

NorthernRedStar1 votes

Going from one end straight to another.

I don't see an issue with the complaints. It's not that hard to be somewhere in the middle.

King Braum1 votes

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So let me get this straight. People spend all of season 7 bitching and whining about how teamfights take forever, tanks are controlling the game and nobody is allwoed to move, blah blah blah. Now riot fixes this by giving damage, mobility and shorter teamfight and these same people start acting as if the way it used to be was an better and how its gone downhill from riot doing exactly what they wanted. Just like when everyone was getting sick of the nonestop buffs and all champions getting too strong riot starts to systematically nerf each role or class to the ground like mages in 8.9, jg as a whole in 8.10 and crit adc's in 8.11 and coming up fighters and bruisers in 8.12. SO everyone just shut the fuck up and accept what you wished.

Now comes the swarm of people telling me that they never wanted any of this it was other people. Bring it on

I wasnt part of season 7, I took a break from the game to focus on my work and trying to get a new degree. my main expererience from the game comes from season 4 to 6, all seasons I personally was quite satisfied with apart from a few issues.

AirKingNeo3 votes

I honestly hate the keystones, half of them favor Assassins even in paths that arent ment for assassins.

literally have 2 keystones but somehow a lot favor them?

Tentacle Advisor1 votes

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literally have 2 keystones but somehow a lot favor them?

"Predator" "Electrocute" "Dark Harvest"

Hell, Glacial Augment has been the rune I've seen taken on Pyke. (An Assassin support) And let's not pretend like "Phase Rush" isn't viable on Assassins, given how quick they are anyway, and how fast they use their spell rotations.

AirKingNeo1 votes

Predator is a jungle keystone. It is unviable in lane.

Tentacle Advisor1 votes

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Predator is a jungle keystone. It is unviable in lane.

Tell that to Predator Annie .

Saibbo1 votes

I honestly feel like Season 8 of league is the most unsatisfied I've ever been about the game.

I'm the only one remembering the adc in 2k17 meme s7? it's the same all over again

Vlada Cut1 votes

Seriously? Burst on DoT champions lol. They habe Summom Aery, Scorch amlnd item 3151 for that. Other runes are stronger because of the numbers or are more favorable on other champions.

Lightning I1 votes

I'm sad because my (recently) favorite champ Ziggs can't carry games. No matter how well I do with him, Zed will always run up to me with youmuu's, one shot me with half his combo and leaves untouched.

Tentacle Advisor1 votes

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I'm sad because my (recently) favorite champ Ziggs can't carry games. No matter how well I do with him, Zed will always run up to me with youmuu's, one shot me with half his combo and leaves untouched.

Rush item 3060, win lane.

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