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League of Legends is unfair, and no longer fun for me.

Deathrohk·8/5/2018, 6:17:52 AM·10 votes·5,026 views

I have been playing league of legends for about 4 years, been off and on. But this is by far one of the most soul draining games I have ever played. I no longer have been enjoying this game and the way its heading, its going to get worse. I have a few points I would like to show, and why I personally may be taking a long break from this game. (No hate, just how I feel about this game)

MATCHMAKING: The matchmaking system in this game is very unfair. Riot has personally said, "According to the way it works, you should be winning about 50% of your games." That is not true. The matchmaking system feels for me like a coin toss. Being hard stuck gold, I have put in many hours into trying to climb, but the result is always the same. 0 LP/Demotion. The teams are never balanced. In over half my games, my other laners lose lane before the 10 min mark. Yet you can be doing perfectly fine in your lane, but because everyone else is failing, it screws you over. Game ends with bot lane 2/20 and you move on to the next coin toss. Personally this is not how a game like this should work. When entering que, you should be placed with people that are around your skill. For example: If you are Plat IV, you should be VS. others that are Plat V - Plat II. But in most cases, it ends up being you have a Silver III on your team while they enemy for some reason has a Plat I or even Diamond V on their team. This hidden MMR number should not even be a thing in ranked. In norms I understand it. But then it completely ruins the point of even having ranks. An easy example of how they may compensate this is by reducing the amount of LP you lose if you are playing well. Just to simplify things, if your team ints really bad, (game ends at 30 Min) but you ended up getting an S. They should lower the amount of LP you lose by X amount. Yes I fully understand this is a, "team game," but in Solo queue, that isn't always the case, with at least 1 person in every match being toxic. You should not be held back from reaching your goal because of other people not playing at the top of their game.

QUEUE SYSTEM: This will be a small section. But Solo Queue should be truly, "Solo." You should not be able to queue with your diamond friend who goes on his alt to carry you all the way out of bronze into plat. That is what flex is for. To queue with friends and climb in a ranked settings. While Solo should only rely on you doing your best each game, and not relying on your friend you is smurfing. Just something I thought I would throw in.

I GOT ONE SHOT AGAIN: This current meta we are in is not enjoyable at all. I love seeing a variety of champs and good yet unique builds people come up with. That is the wish. This feels like school, where you are taught to do math a certain way, and only that way. "Oh, just buy this lethality item and I can one shot people just by hitting R? Will do!" Many people have thought of super fun and cool builds in the past yet they just ended up getting nerfed to the ground. When people in this game try and step out of line, they get a smack on the hand and are told that is not the right way play. We live in a meta of just the most boring gameplay yet. Constantly just getting one shotted. So many champions fault under this, such as Wukong, Talon, and Quinn, just to name a few. You should not be able to one shot people with 1 lethality item early in the game ever with little effort put into it. I understand super skillful champions being able to pull off insane combos, but for hardly trying with the most basic champions, you should not be able to kill people that fast. Wukong - Presses E + R + Ignite = Dead Champion. Or Talon - R + Q + Ignite = Dead Support. Now while the champions should need maybe a few tweaks, I personally believe is just the flat amount of damage anyone can do. For example, I recently had a frustrating match where my teammates were feeding quite hard. I was playing top lane quite well, when all of a sudden, a get one shotted from the opposing midlaner while under my tower. I proceed to check the board and I was shocked to see the enemy 10/0 at 15min already. Even though I had nothing to do with him getting fed, I get punished by blinking then being forced to stare at a gray screen for the next 30 seconds. Gameplay should be more about making the best plays, outplaying the enemy well, dodging skill shots. At the moment, its all about spamming Q W E R until someone dies.

NOT ENJOYABLE: Overall, between how well you can do in a game yet still game punished for it, to the super high level of toxicity in this game, to the very poor rewards you receive for spending so much of time into the game, I simply do not enjoy it anymore. Many other online games reward you for spending a lot of time playing their game. What do you receive in League? A lackluster box of BE and a border around your name. In the end, league at its core is a great game, and I have enjoyed playing it. But as time goes in, I feel just more frustrated than happy about the game. I had a dream of trying to achieve Diamond one day, but I simply don't feel like I have anymore energy to do it. The most I feel like I would do is just achieve gold for the skin at the end of each season then be done. This is how I personally feel about the game and is my opinion.

10 Comments

Toppien8/5/2018, 4:20:02 PM4 votes

dude just stop playing just like i did, its not even worth it cuz riot doesnt even read posts unless is someone licking their boots

im still toxic8/5/2018, 6:38:52 AM1 votes

I agree with you that the game has become less fun recently, but some of your points I disagree with. Matchmaking is fair, you're not stuck in gold because your teams are unbalanced, you're stuck in gold because you're a gold player. Not trying to be an asshole, but that's the way it works. There is no elo hell, if you're good enough and play enough games, you will climb out assuming you play at that level.

As for the enjoyment and 1 shot part, yeah that's true. Riot should get rid of this patch shit and just start hotfixing stuff to get the game back on track because honestly at this point they fuck more things up than they fix when each new patch comes.

JAYCCCCCCCCCCCCE8/5/2018, 6:39:47 AM1 votes

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Jamaree8/5/2018, 6:23:59 AM1 votes

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I have been playing league of legends for about 4 years, been off and on. But this is by far one of the most soul draining games I have ever played. I no longer have been enjoying this game and the way its heading, its going to get worse. I have a few points I would like to show, and why I personally may be taking a long break from this game. (No hate, just how I feel about this game)

MATCHMAKING: The matchmaking system in this game is very unfair. Riot has personally said, "According to the way it works, you should be winning about 50% of your games." That is not true. The matchmaking system feels for me like a coin toss.

So...50% then? Because if it is a coin toss...then it would be 50%.

Being hard stuck gold, I have put in many hours into trying to climb, but the result is always the same. 0 LP/Demotion. The teams are never balanced. In over half my games, my other laners lose lane before the 10 min mark. Yet you can be doing perfectly fine in your lane, but because everyone else is failing, it screws you over. Game ends with bot lane 2/20 and you move on to the next coin toss. Personally this is not how a game like this should work. When entering que, you should be placed with people that are around your skill. For example: If you are Plat IV, you should be VS. others that are Plat V - Plat II. But in most cases, it ends up being you have a Silver III on your team while they enemy for some reason has a Plat I or even Diamond V on their team. This hidden MMR number should not even be a thing in ranked. In norms I understand it. But then it completely ruins the point of even having ranks. An easy example of how they may compensate this is by reducing the amount of LP you lose if you are playing well. Just to simplify things, if your team ints really bad, (game ends at 30 Min) but you ended up getting an S. They should lower the amount of LP you lose by X amount. Yes I fully understand this is a, "team game," but in Solo queue, that isn't always the case, with at least 1 person in every match being toxic. You should not be held back from reaching your goal because of other people not playing at the top of their game.

Everytime I see things like this, why is it ONLY "Oh, only my teammates feed, teams are unbalanced." Why is it never that every feeds...including OP?

Sharpest glasses8/5/2018, 5:40:42 PM1 votes

Wukong - Presses E + R + Ignite = Dead Champion.

What's new ?? Wukong was always a OSer.

conquistwist4/14/2019, 6:38:18 AM1 votes

I feel you. The ranked solo/duo queue is very unfair. Let the guys who paid by Riot to explain why a team with TWO silver IV and ONE bronze II and TWO bronze III against TWO silver III and TWO silver IV and One bronze I? That is so fair right? Just admit it that the solo queue system is so broken. Like 90%, this game isn't ideal for solo queue. Admit it RIOT. In another case, ARAM is much better. Why? You know the answer. Tencent!

MasterDClone8/5/2018, 6:46:05 AM1 votes

The matchmaking system in this game is very unfair. Riot has personally said, "According to the way it works, you should be winning about 50% of your games." That is not true. The matchmaking system feels for me like a coin toss.

A coin toss is 50 % btw.

An easy example of how they may compensate this is by reducing the amount of LP you lose if you are playing well. Just to simplify things, if your team ints really bad, (game ends at 30 Min) but you ended up getting an S. They should lower the amount of LP you lose by X amount.

What defines playing well, is it your grade score, your wards score, your kda, your objectives. I am a mastery 7 yas, but i have no idea how to play the champion and got all my s grades simply by playing him jungle and farming really well while taxing my lanes. yes i got an s but i did effectively lose the team the game. Getting an s shouldn't reduce the lp lost otherwise everyone would kda farm to avoid losing and climbing would become way too easy for those who ks.

But Solo Queue should be truly, "Solo." You should not be able to queue with your diamond friend who goes on his alt to carry you all the way out of bronze into plat.

The majority of duo arent people smurfing but people actually playing together at the same ranked, yes losing to a smurf is frustrating but removing the duo ability won't change the fact that there will be smurfs.

That is what flex is for. To queue with friends and climb in a ranked settings. While Solo should only rely on you doing your best each game, and not relying on your friend you is smurfing.

I play both solo and duo when playing solo-queue and i have to say duoing is always more enjoyable for me because i get to talk to someone while playing the game and just be more relaxed about it, And i duo with people in both plat and silver, while i am gold. Flex is a terrible way to climb because no-one takes it seriously, on top of that it is generally for parties of 3 or 5, when you duo with someone you play solo-queue. I play my best game when i play with a friend because it untilts me from the deapths of solo-queue.

When people in this game try and step out of line, they get a smack on the hand and are told that is not the right way play. We live in a meta of just the most boring gameplay yet

The current meta has the most amount of diversity the game has seen since season 1, yes there are a lot of one shots happening, but have you seen botlanes new roster, or all the new possibilities to see the champions, i've been playing a lot of both ap and ad sion, ap and ad shaco, ap and ad yasuo, ap and ad rammus. i've been playing a lot of predator ryze jungle or karthus or sona. currently the game has so many different ways to play and riot isn't even trying to punish them but to actually help them.(the exception being funneling because that was just toxic for high elo and pro-play having so little counter-play)

to the super high level of toxicity in this game, to the very poor rewards you receive for spending so much of time into the game, I simply do not enjoy it anymore

Since i've started playing ive noticed toxicity go down tremendously with the honor rework, the amount of loot you get and the amount of event where you get free cosmetics drasticly increase. Therefor i am guessing you are just sick of playing the game but don't want to quit so you're trying to blame the game for you not liking it anymore. Either way i had to correct a few errors in the post but we both now you're coming next year