This game started to plummet during season 6. Keystones were added in season 6.

See where I’m going with this?

Seriously, keystones are the villain nobody ever wanted, or needed. All they did was turn a balanced mastery system into an absolute shithouse, and add far too much damage into this game.

Take Zed, for example. Before keystones were added, a Zed would have to land most/all of his abilities in order to burst you, which was fine, because he had landed all of his abilities. Oh but what’s this? Thanks to Thunderlord’s (now known as its big brother Electrocute), he can miss nearly his entire combo, but that’s fine, because he can just basic attack you a few times and say goodbye to your health bar!

And let’s not forget this bullshit Riot decided to call “Runes Reforged”. Seriously, who the hell asked for this. At this point you may just describe every rune in the game as “more damage”.

No, I’m not salty because some assassin outplayed me and ended my entire existence with just pure skill. Keystones are not fun to use on the winning side, either. I honestly found it a lot more fun to have to get a few items on a champion like Fizz until I could start doing some real damage, instead of just deleting my opponent at level 3 because electrocute did all the work. There’s no skill in this. Please, Riot. Just fuck off with keystones, and runes reforged.