Riot, can you please spend some time going fixing the basics instead of futuresight for 1 Season?
I feel like there's mountains of issues people have with the game have literally been here for years, that just get glazed over every time it's time to put programming hours in for the "next big update" or flashy champion. I'm someone that loves a good new champion, but some of this is just been on a broken record for YEARS.
#1: Toxicity. You need to make your bans harsher not just for the sake of your game, but the sake of your game's image and all of our brains not melting combined. League is well known as the most toxic community in gaming, and of course it is. With the Tribunal still removed and an average of 3 flamers per game(in my experience) Why wouldn't it be known that way? With a game this competitive there will always be that element, but some of the things I've seen people get away with saying is absolutely heinous.
#2: Minion block. Ever since you tampered with minion block a couple years ago, there's been at least a post every 2 weeks upvote farming off of it. Why is it so easy to get upvotes? Getting trapped in walls. Getting trapped between minions. Minions jittering and aggroing whatever the hell they feel like in a circle. Cannons randomly aggroing something else causing you to lose farm. I'm sure I speak for a lot of us when I say there's no shittier feeling than Malzahar killing you just by virtue of you getting locked in a voidling dancing circle for 3 weeks.
#3: Balance. It seems more often than not you end up making a drastic gameplay change that throws the entire balance of the game outta whack, just to spend more than a month getting the balance back to a point of being "almost" as balanced as it was before. I think the best thing you can do is stop making changes for a while and really tweak what you have now to the point of it feeling like there are no F-Tier champions. That's all I ask for.
#4: SNOWBALLING SNOWBALLING SNOWBALLING. Everyone has a problem with it. It's another upvote farmer on these forums. Since season 5 the games have been getting shorter and shorter, and that's fine if you decide to do that. But design around that and make the whole game shorter. As of right now, I can't remember as a top laner the last time I actually had an impact on my team winning or losing. Odds are the first team to get 2 turrets by rushing the bot lane and taking out the useless ADC wins by default now.
I love this game, and I know none of these topics are easy ones to address. But can this finally be the season people are asking for where do have a lot more introspection added to the process?