Anyone's matches NOT shorter than before?

Top River King·Nov 13, 2015·2 votes·721 views

I've played 6 matches on the new patch. They went, in order, 20m, 31m, 41m, 34m, 41m, 26m. The 6 prior? 20m, 42m, 36m, 50m, 21m, 30m. The former averages out to 32 minutes, and the latter 33. So, on average, my match length went down... 1 minute. That's even with a relative anomaly, the 50m match (had only 3 go 50+ in 2 weeks), upping the pre-patch average.

To top it all off, nearly all of my matches have been closely contested for the majority of the match with no more snowballing than normal. Each match felt completely winnable. Needless to say, I'm a bit thrown off by all the posts about matches not going as long and being "over in 10 minutes" stomps. Does anyone else share my confusion, or am I alone in this?

8 Comments

SheikaReiNov 13, 20152 votes

I agreee with you. My matches haven't really felt any shorter than they used to.

TalkrrNov 13, 20152 votes

Well, towers go down faster.

I think teamfights just go on and on, thats what makes it longer imo.

Top River KingNov 13, 20151 votes

Towers do go down faster. That much I'll agree on. For example, I've faced Nasus plenty of times in the past, but never have I seen one melt two turrets so easily only ~20 minutes in. It was horrifying.

TalkrrNov 13, 20152 votes

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Towers do go down faster. That much I'll agree on. For example, I've faced Nasus plenty of times in the past, but never have I seen one melt two turrets so easily only ~20 minutes in. It was horrifying.

This. Nasus ain't even fed and he get's his stacks Quarter of the turret gone with one Q.

ErockandrollNov 13, 20151 votes

My first two matches were really snowbally, but I would attribute them to human Error, more so than the new system. First match, our fiora forgot to set the new masteries. Second match, our ADC strait up fed the enemy.

RozairNov 13, 20151 votes

I think they are shorter. With more gold coming in and the items aren't that much more expensive than they were. I'm noticing at least 1-10 min shorter games. I don't think you will see that epic 50 min game as much anymore. But people are still learning how so maybe it's just because someone doesn't understand th e mastery yet