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Season 9 A.K.A Season 8 part 2

Nameless Drifter·1/19/2019, 5:55:42 PM·116 votes·22,246 views

19th January, 4 days left for Preseason to end, yet nothing was tested, changed or adjusted. Preseason is meant to test changes, possible fixes/reworks, adjustments, new additions both in itemization and stats wise. Overall, its the best time period to text things live. Yet in this Preason nothing was solved or even worked on.

Conqueror is still ridiculously unfair and overpowered and fails to fill its anti-tank ONLY concept because well, its a anti-everything.

Mage itemization is still horrible and offers no distinct paths depending on the champion kit and gameplay.

Mages that were killed in Season 8 changes, never got compensation buffs or talked about despite complains. They dont do flashy plays, so they probably dont matter.

Lethality got even stronger, to the point a full lethality wukong, with no Black Cleaver, can literally melt a 250+ armor and 3k health tank in 2 seconds, because hell why not! Assassins are meant to kill low defense stats carries, but I guess having them kill tanks is so fun too!

Karthus is used to cheese in pretty much every position but I guess no one at Riot thought that his ult base stats arent a bit too high for a global ult with the addition of Dark Harvest and the current meta.

Xin Zhao has become a god in the jungle. Hail of Blades early game buff gave him even a more bursty way to kill people.

More Vayne buffs! That will for sure solve stuff!

The biggest excuse is the "We need more data/testing to actually change anything" Which honestly I find it laughable. You literally just need to queue in games, listen to the community feedback and have common sense. Its been a fucking year, and nothing was done.

Clash apparently died or they forgot about it, since there isnt any information about it in months.

Gameplay+ threads that try to spark a discussion about these topics, get DELETED. Honestly the Boards are a disgrace, I havent seen a Rioter actually talking and answering threads in the Gameplay section in years. Im pretty sure they dont even read it. Makes me think, why would they read Gameplay+ then.

Junglers itemization is honestly shameful. Seriously. We got a Sunfire Cape and Luden Echo copy in the Smites type. They are dull and dont add any interaction to the gameplay.

I have a lot more complains but you get the deal. Season 9 will just be exactly like Season 8, maybe in Season 10 they will actually acknowledge the state of the game is awful and actually work on REAL changes. Till then, be sure to buy the new Prestige skins! Reminder that Ahri and Evelyn still havent got them yet they are pushing them into other champions behind paywalls.

2019 will be a blast.

116 Comments

The Bad Touch1/19/2019, 6:45:30 PM53 votes

But the game is fine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pebEONk7TSY

Right? Cause it's balanced when an assassin can 2.25 second kill a built tank. Without using ulti.....

Hügö1/19/2019, 6:15:22 PM36 votes

It is because they don't want to change anything. They want fast games and a shitton of damage. Just look at the recent nerfs, those are all placebo nerfs with the hope that people take the bait and shut up.

Anchorit Wracaj1/19/2019, 8:49:32 PM15 votes

Doing 4500 health without ulti shouldn't be doable. Now..if ornn gets melted without evelyn use of ulti. HOW MUCH CHANCES DOES AN ADC or less tanky champion stands? ZERO. Thats why game is frustrating to play.Getting one shoted,and bursted..where TF is skill there? When do we see teamfights? Assasin mains remmember when they needed actuall skill and to land all skillshots to burst ADC or squishy target.What kind of fullfiment or joyment does it bring now burst somonoe when EVERY SINGLE CLASS CAN ONESHOT EACH OTHER? I am talking about this for long time,but yeah,seems like nobody cares. Oh..if you say deffense stats needs to be buffed..and offense stats needs to be nerfed.. HEY....WE DON'T WANT ANOTHER "TANK" META...Lmao...STOP balaning it around LCS.Tanks hardly exist in Soloque..and atleast its teamgame then. Oh,,,another thing...we can call this season a mobility meta also..cause unmobile champions are garbage.

hoganftw1/19/2019, 9:07:54 PM10 votes

Riot doesn't play the game. They're armchair theorists who look at pro play and raw numbers and go hmm sounds good.

Death by Glamour1/19/2019, 7:49:21 PM9 votes

what happened last preseason?

oh yeh they added runes, didn't bother balancing them and gutted sona

SweedishGunner1/19/2019, 8:02:39 PM7 votes

Mages are basically can you build double pen items (or you're Cass)? Then you're good. If you can't, then you ain't doing shit until 35 minutes.

Who Fed Ru1/19/2019, 11:21:32 PM5 votes

Am I like the only one who actually thinks it's slowly becoming better?

Atm I'm honestly very often asking myself what to ban and that's not because there is too much that needs to be banned. Shit like Akali finally got gutted so hard that it's basically a troll pick now if you aren't challenger.

The only complaint I'm having is that jungle is still fucking broken, but that has been like that since like 2015.

But the real low point of this game was Season 7. Fact. Compared to the ardent cancer shield Janna Lulu meta the game is finally at least playable again.

VG Crows1/19/2019, 7:51:00 PM4 votes

Wait, really? Gameplay+ posts that try to raise the issue are being deleted? Can you elaborate?

In any event, agree with most of what you say

Kaisha1/20/2019, 12:07:46 AM4 votes

This'll be by far the worst season yet. They hyper-mobility/snowball insta-gib fest is so overblown its hilarious. Teams are at each others throats within a min or two in game. The tiniest of infractions or errors and tempers flare out of control. Toxicity has never been worse.

I can't wait for this community to tear itself apart, its gonna be great entertainment.

Beerstein1/19/2019, 10:40:56 PM3 votes

Eve: Void staff -40% mres Allure: -35% Mres Sorc shoes: -18 Mres Morellonomicon: -15 Mres AP: 900+ Runes: Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless hunter (assume full stacks) Gathering storm (oh shit that's like 119 more AP with Rabadans synergy alone), and Absolute Focus (uhoh, 56 more). Add in all the synergy with the Rabadans since she spared NO expense on defensive stats pushing out any offense and yeah...This SHOULD actually be this way.

1 Squishy boi: 53.4 Mres 1 Squishy Boi Spirit Visage: +55 Mres 1 Squishy Boi Null Magic Mantle: +25 Mres =133.4 Mres (141 due to other factors, but we didn't really factor in eve minute details either) 141-75%=35.25-39= -6.75 Mres...RIP So he's taking true damage from someone with 900+ AP because she DID land her Allure in this case so all her damage would effectively be true damage for the duration of Allure.

Contrast that to him having 49.35 mres had he not been in a position to let her land her allure and attack him while his team was behind...Pretty huge difference between that and -6.75. Can't blame the game for him being out of position.

Champions need the tools to close out games when they full build and synergies keep stacking on eachother, that's what happened here. An ADC full build by contrast would have 1 shot her with a right click.