Cupcakes, Poor Ward Upgrade, and Mage Supports? Bye Felicia.

I haven't really had too many issues with changes being made to champs since I've started playing (with the exception of I think we all want to forget that blunder...) however when pre-season 6 hit, League wasn't League anymore. The focus suddenly turned into making AD champions very strong, to the point of being unnecessary. Take for example...tolerable in Season 5, though still a grade A asshat, he wasn't broken like he is now. Despite AD assassins being a royal pain in everybody's ass because of the big changes, I think the worst party affected was bot lane. Not only did ADC champs get buffs of their own mostly in favor of AD (which in retrospect would make sense, they are ADC's, however this has taken away from what made League, League.) but in my opinion, the AP supports took a pretty large hit with the removal of mana pots. While we've found ways to overcome that, it still annoys the support mains that play AP Riot. The other issue is warding. The new wards are terrible, and it did nothing to help improve teamwork on vision, I still see games where laners have put down only a handful if even any wards down. I'm not even going to speak about combining the orb with a ward, utter garbage upgrade. That was pretty pathetic.

Meta was a guide for new players to get the hang of how things would go in a usual game, you had your typical lanes, with nothing really interesting or fun on the board. For 5 seasons, it remained that way, just a guide. People would flame of course if you broke meta, but it wasn't anything to ever worry about, haters would hate. It's starting to feel like Riot is doing away with the fun, the interesting, the "troll" as most call it, and while some rejoice, those that do do not know League. In an attempt to balance typical ADC like Caitlyn, Miss Fortune, and Ezreal, you've taken the skill away from them and turned them into a mindless auto-attack. Ezreal not so much on that note simply because all he had done was added AD scaling onto his ult, which is slightly annoying because again, it's deterring from "non-meta." Miss Fortune got an entirely new passive while her old one got tied into her W, said new passive gives her bonus physical damage (AD scaling) on every new target she auto-attacks. Great for ADC, aside from her being overpowered because of her changes. Her other change is her ult, which also got AD scaling, which is great! It really is. Not. She had AD scaling on it already and depending on how you look at it, her old W did increasing magic damage with AD scaling with every auto-attack done to the same target, and that applied to every bullet wave of her ult. AD Miss Fortune did not need the change, she was always very strong, just overlooked. Caitlyn however, was the worst ADC mistake I've seen. There was no reason to remove the magic damage from her traps, or give her a stacking number to use with no cooldown. Headshot is an interesting change and I like it honestly, or whatever her new passive is technically called, it kept the old one in it, however by trying to get this new passive off the ground, you've destroyed the one pick in this entire game that took true skill. AP Caitlyn was beyond strong, but because it was so hard to play, it was instantly a minority. Players like Nhipia, probably the most famous Caitlyn on the internet, is known for playing AP Caitlyn. She took champ knowledge, timing, and AP Caitlyn most definitely required you to know how to aim a skillshot.

I hear people every once in a while bring up champions like Yorick, and Urgot (not just because of skins but in some ways it's relevant) and how they get no changes, they don't get better, and they get no new skins. The answer I hear every time, is that they aren't played. People say "Riot won't pay them attention because who plays them?" If that holds true, why ruin AP Caitlyn? For those players that could pull her off and show real knowledge on a champion, why ruin it for them? Why take the AP out of her traps and give her 5? If you won't nerf AP Miss Fortune or AP Ezreal, why Caitlyn?

I understand it's only the pre-season and things will get changes once Season 6 hits, it's possible Caitlyn will get her AP potential back, nothing is written in stone yet, I understand. I'm seriously hoping though mana pots get put back and the wards get put back, as a support main those two are the most annoying things...the ADC's I play with do not ward anymore. Partially because of the ridiculously long cooldown on it early, but mostly due to the new ward system pushing the job of warding onto the support and not the team as a whole.

Lastly, I would ask that fellow players please respect my opinion, as it is only my opinion and how I feel about the changes. I'm not here to preach that AP Caitlyn is the only Caitlyn or that it surpasses AD, I'm simply saying she doesn't take much skill anymore to play. I would very much appreciate it if those of you who read this and don't agree, simply move onto the next post you wish to view, I mean no disrespect by what I say, so I would ask that of you in return. Thank you.