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Fix Your Game, Riot

ivan usi virgin·2/3/2016, 1:30:52 AM·7 votes·2,778 views

good job, riot. you've managed to slowly shape league from the finest, healthiest, least toxic, most balanced and most enjoyable meta it's ever had, the cinderhulk meta, to the worst meta it's ever had, the season 6 meta. but what even is the season 6 meta? it's a meta in which enjoyment isn't a factor in the game, whether you're playing a normal game or a ranked game. why? for multiple reasons.

-too many overpowered and toxic champions, not enough bans. we're still looking at 6 bans after years though the amount of champions has increased by a lot. required bans are } and more.

-towers are now too weak, and dives can be made early game with very little risk.

-death timers have been increased for absolutely no reason. good job, riot

-juggernauts.

-comebacks are nearly impossible now, the game is now decided by whoever gets the first lead. because death timers have been increased and towers are weaker, one kill in lane ends up becoming, along with 300 gold, a cs lead, a 2 level lead and a tower lead.

-shutdowns now give global gold instead of giving it to the players who are behind and desperately need the extra shutdown cash.

-games are now so fast that dragon has become nearly completely irrelevant

-rift herald is stupidly easy to kill. one small kill toplane and the lane is completely over because the enemy jungler and toplaner are able to kill it and get the buff without any consequence.

-champion favoritism.

-ap mage items have been completely gutted because they now all cost 600 more.

-balanced/weak/underplayed champions are nerfed because riot doesn't know how to balance masteries.

-because towers are weaker and games are now faster and decided so early, weak early champions have been left to rot without some sort of conversation and are dove 3 times before level 6.

-riot is incapable of fixing champions that are broken or overpowered like or fixing champions that are underpowered like and instead focuses on reworking balanced/strong champions like

league's state right now is honestly absolutely disgusting, and beyond unenjoyable. there are so many more points that i could list off, so many many more. i honestly hope riot fixes this game because this is an absolute disappointment; they should know better as the company running the most played game in the world.

edit: forgot to mention.. +

34 Comments

Jin Kazama2/3/2016, 11:24:09 PM2 votes

There's a lot of wrong points but there are a few ones that are right.

S H A Y C 02/3/2016, 1:34:14 AM1 votes

-champion favoritism.

im assuming you think lee is really strong right now?

also taric is in the middle of a rework..

Jin Kazama2/3/2016, 11:45:04 PM1 votes

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good job, riot. you've managed to slowly shape league from the finest, healthiest, least toxic, most balanced and most enjoyable meta it's ever had, the cinderhulk meta, to the worst meta it's ever had, the season 6 meta. but what even is the season 6 meta? it's a meta in which enjoyment isn't a factor in the game, whether you're playing a normal game or a ranked game. why? for multiple reasons.

I guess this is matter of opinion but I don't agree with this.

-too many overpowered and toxic champions, not enough bans. we're still looking at 6 bans after years though the amount of champions has increased by a lot. required bans are } and more.

Tahm disgustingly broken, Graves is pretty ridiculous and Soraka is horrifying. Mundo's also pretty dumb but not too bad. Others aren't picked often and aren't too much trouble.

-towers are now too weak, and dives can be made early game with very little risk.

I agree with this.

-death timers have been increased for absolutely no reason. good job, riot

They were increased for reason, but they seem pretty extreme a lot earlier now which I don't think is good.

-juggernauts.

Nothing wrong with them.

-comebacks are nearly impossible now, the game is now decided by whoever gets the first lead. because death timers have been increased and towers are weaker, one kill in lane ends up becoming, along with 300 gold, a cs lead, a 2 level lead and a tower lead.

Comebacks are very much possible and leads are easily thrown in most levels of play. If one kill puts you that far behind then you'd have to be AFKing for a few minutes after you die.

-shutdowns now give global gold instead of giving it to the players who are behind and desperately need the extra shutdown cash.

Sharing shutdown gold is healthy for the game and stops an entire team from being drastically weaker than their one fed player.

-games are now so fast that dragon has become nearly completely irrelevant

Valid point. Dragon isn't as valuable as it should be because of game length. The increase to death timers only made this worse.

-rift herald is stupidly easy to kill. one small kill toplane and the lane is completely over because the enemy jungler and toplaner are able to kill it and get the buff without any consequence.

The lane isn't over just because of one Rift Herald unless the team which has the advantage continues to press it well.

-champion favoritism.

Lee Sin has been falling out of meta the past few Seasons. While he'll never be completely gone, he's not ridiculous like he used to be.

-ap mage items have been completely gutted because they now all cost 600 more.

Another counter-intuitive change that Riot has made. They want games to be faster, yet they make it take longer for AP Champions to get their items. Now they need to either get extremely fed or farm well for a long time to get going.

-balanced/weak/underplayed champions are nerfed because riot doesn't know how to balance masteries.

A very small nerf which should have been done a long time ago. Although it shouldn't have been done until he was seeing play, since nerfing a weak Champion doesn't make sense.

-because towers are weaker and games are now faster and decided so early, weak early champions have been left to rot without some sort of conversation and are dove 3 times before level 6.

Late game Champions don't need to be touched, other aspects of the game need to be changed (tower strength, death timers, etc.).

-riot is incapable of fixing champions that are broken or overpowered like or fixing champions that are underpowered like and instead focuses on reworking balanced/strong champions like

Jax isn't broken. He was just stupidly strong for a few weaks while Rageblade -> Gunblade existed. Now he's the same as he used to be.

edit: forgot to mention.. +

Blue Ezreal is pretty obnoxious but it's not stupidly hard to beat.

Desiderium2/3/2016, 11:47:26 PM1 votes

Why do people say they miss the Cinderhulk meta? Why should 5 tank team comps EVER be viable again?

The amount of times I've seen a tank walk away from a retardedly bad play with nothing but the health bonus from Cinderhulk is too, too many times. And it's extremely tilting every. Single. Time.

No one wants it back.

No one.

TheGreatZomega2/4/2016, 6:10:34 AM1 votes

I was gunna lay into you for this, but I can see that our ever-gracious community has already done that.

Instead I will just say that I agree with a lot of what you said here, but like Nasus is just as dangerous as he's ever been, and Urgot is a terrorist in the hands of an experienced player.

I do agree that Riot has a lot of work and explaining to do, and the meta is certainly in shambles as far as low elo is concerned... But Riot doesn't care what we think until we're Plat.

If you ask ME... the problem is the ranked system that only rewards winning... what about a positive KDA? What about wards placed/destroyed? What about percent kill participation or all the 'et ceteras' that make a player a GOOD team player?

The way that the system is set up, literally none of that matters, just that you and the other 4 (most likely toxic or incompetent) players see the "Victory" banner. It's simply not fair.

P.S. you forgot the cancer that is Zed