Fnatic vs. Schalke just demonstrated the game's current issues

Scuffleboard·6/16/2018, 6:30:23 PM·3 votes·852 views

For those who did not see it, Schalke was basically winning for 22-23 minutes of the game. Fnatic got a couple picks, took baron, and went down mid to take all the turrets and destroy the base. They won the game in under 25. Now, when a team can be behind that badly and have one turret at 22, then win at 25, something is wrong. It's obviously good that they could overcome the snowball, but the fact that all of midlane and Schalke's entire base went down in about two minutes is the problem here. They tore through that base like it was paper. One baron and one kill overcame a gold deficit of about 8k and led to a win. That should never happen with most of the team alive. Nexus turrets and inhibitors need a big health buff, or something. They should never be deleted like that.

A big part of what happened was also the Kai'Sa. Fnatic did a Nunu-Kaisa funneling strategy, and even though Kai'Sa went 0-3 in laning phase she was able to delete people, and turrets. Now, I know Riot is planning to combat funneling, but I hope they will seriously consider buffing inner turrets to make the game less volatile. One play should not result in a win when nearly everything else has gone wrong.

5 Comments

LordOPain6/16/2018, 6:36:13 PM3 votes

exactly, I have been speaking on the same issue, the turrets and other buildings have been left far behind as everything else got buffed massively and new items were added to the game.

aw beans6/16/2018, 6:37:51 PM3 votes

It seems odd because many people are complaining right now that it feels impossible to come back from behind a snowballing enemy. Although I guess, games hardly snowball as much in pro play, considering the 6(?) kills Kai'sa ended with was a lot for a game of that length. But I agree either way, structures are so weak right now.

Khristophoros6/16/2018, 6:41:10 PM2 votes

Baron buff is too powerful.

Certain team comps take down Baron too fast (especially when they have Kai'sa)

Turrets go down too fast.