Riot officially admits the meta is damage heavy

Ηuawei·12/22/2018, 8:33:38 AM·128 votes·24,885 views

And they keep the damage high deliberatetly. Read the patch notes for 8.24b.

"enchanters are the ones struggling to make an impact even in a damage-heavy meta"

Just make a post saying "we turned the game into a casual clownfest damage-heavy moba" already. Heroes of the Storm was like that and it failed. It's closing down / maintenance mode.

Riot if you want to turn LoL into HotS then so be it. You will suffer the same fate.

MOBAs are not the hottest thing anymore. All that's left from the MOBA era are LoL and Dota 2. Nobody wants to make a new moba since you shut down all competition and now all we have is 1-shotting and quest grinding and golden chromas locked behind paywalls.

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Deneviel12/22/2018, 9:17:43 AM65 votes

... RIOT logic in a nutshell.

We can't balance assassin at all, so instead of letting a small roaster of champ in the barely viable zone let's turn everyone into an assassin and we won't have that prob.

Malix Farwin12/22/2018, 12:47:03 PM32 votes

damage heavy metas look good for the spectator, low damage ones look boring because they actually farm and choose champs that don't need to pop off early in the lcs in those ones.

Netorare12/22/2018, 1:55:03 PM21 votes

They admited the heavy dmg meta but they will do nothing because this is what they do the best. Nerfs to problematic bullshit dmg or hypermobile ones? nah fam only buffs and -5ms crap. S9 will be as garbage as s8 and nothing can change that sadly...

Hexs Fortune12/22/2018, 2:09:20 PM14 votes

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And they keep the damage high deliberatetly. Read the patch notes for 8.24b.

"enchanters are the ones struggling to make an impact even in a damage-heavy meta"

Just make a post saying "we turned the game into a casual clownfest damage-heavy moba" already. Heroes of the Storm was like that and it failed. It's closing down / maintenance mode.

Riot if you want to turn LoL into HotS then so be it. You will suffer the same fate.

MOBAs are not the hottest thing anymore. All that's left from the MOBA era are LoL and Dota 2. Nobody wants to make a new moba since you shut down all competition and now all we have is 1-shotting and quest grinding and golden chromas locked behind paywalls.

Heroes of the storm has WAY WAY WAY less burst than League right now. If you actually played it you'd know that.

Harden Stepback12/22/2018, 4:50:51 PM12 votes

blame the ADHD generation that riot is catering to

AR URF12/22/2018, 8:51:25 AM10 votes

It's kind of sad honestly when I can pretty well predict the outcome of a lane. Mid Veigar vs mid Zed . I'm usually right when I figure Zed will win the lane.

I get that every champion has/needs counterplay, but right now it's becoming ridiculous.

Cats Are Food12/22/2018, 5:24:13 PM8 votes

I've said this for four years:

RIOT somehow believes the 1.2 million views they get for LCS out weight 80 million players.

Boiled Triangles12/22/2018, 9:33:03 PM7 votes

I honestly just want a single macth without an assassin. As a mage player, this game has become almost unplayable. There's no strategy, outplay potential, or macro play. Its just 1 assassin gets ahead and stomps the entire enemy team, every fucking time.

Axzarious12/23/2018, 2:03:03 AM7 votes

The main problem I have with the high damage is that high mobility champions sacrifice NOTHING damage-wise.

King Lego12/22/2018, 1:07:02 PM6 votes

Wait....what happened to HoTS??? I use to play that game and i loved it...