These Bot Lane changes better be good if you're making us wait till Mid-Season for them.

AmWhaleIRL·4/16/2018, 3:10:31 PM·83 votes·17,895 views

Been desperately waiting to gain some agency back in the game.

It's been all season long waiting for this, so be aware that the expectations are high of you Riot to make Bot Lane not determine the outcome of every game, but still make them have agency in every game at the same time.

Not gonna lie, it sounds like a super hard task, I don't envy your job. But @Repertoire responded to many threads complaining about bot Lane saying you guys didn't want to make any kind of hefty changes to bot until Mid Season where big changes are to come. And we've taken that and waited, not all of us so well admittedly, but we've waited. So please make this current agony filled season of no agency anywhere but bot and JG meta worth the wait.

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Hügö4/16/2018, 4:30:35 PM41 votes

"Look guys we buffed crit items and made them cheaper" - "But that is not what we complained about" - 1 year of silence from riot

TS Media4/16/2018, 6:16:18 PM31 votes

I hope they're reducing ambient gold, global gold and catchup exp as well.

FrostQueensPlane4/16/2018, 4:31:30 PM12 votes

I thought repetoir already back peddled like the meddler that he is on this idea because it was retarded

Or was it meddler who back peddled like the repetoir that he is

In either case they don't have anything, their idea of bot lane changes is to buff varus and make it so mages can't leave lane until 20 mins so bot lane can jerk each other off

Blåbæret4/16/2018, 10:11:00 PM9 votes

Trust me guys - it's not gna change jack shit. We've had nearly two years of total ADC and bot lane dominance, and Riot hasn't done anything about it thus far. It's clear that they don't want solo queue to matter. It follows, then, that they don't want people to solo carry games. TLDR; bot lane is always going to dominate because Riot's refusal to implement a true solo queue explicitly entails a lack of will to make the game more friendly for solo players. No reason to believe their philosophy will change.

Yordle Xayah4/16/2018, 10:24:30 PM7 votes

No offense but... with their track record, what do you expect?

WiegrafOfValor4/17/2018, 7:50:33 AM6 votes

Riot: Vayne -5 AD. Crit items buffed

MuffledGarbage4/17/2018, 12:43:33 AM4 votes

Riot isn't going to REALLY fix botlane. Riot's just gonna pull a Conqueror and say "HERE AAARRR SUM NURFS HAV FUUUUN NOW!!!" and then nerf something stupid like the passives on all Crit items(except infinity edge)

Carnicore4/16/2018, 8:50:22 PM3 votes

I'm excited to see if they follow through on their goal of bringing mages and/or fighters to bottom lane. It's been so long since a team brought something other than an ADC.

egOrhythm4/24/2018, 12:18:40 PM2 votes

Mid season patch notes:

"Janna is too strong right now. -5 base shield strength"

ThunderSkelett4/17/2018, 5:04:36 AM2 votes

How to kill your player base 101

DollaMenunaire4/16/2018, 3:11:09 PM1 votes

what changes what did i miss