Actual Constructive Criticism

Clearly League has changed since S5, but so far nobody has seemed to find a real reason why league sucks right now. League is technically the same game, with 3 lanes and a jungler, buy items and play as a team to get the nexus, but it feels so much different than back then. Why though?

First off stop blaming that riot got rid of soloQ, because they brought it back but league still sucks. Reworks shouldnt be that big of a problem since only a small portion of people played those champs, until the mage and assassin rework. The game's unbalanced, of course thats the reason why, but no, the game's been the same in their balance system, besides the fact that back then there would be 1-2 op champs, but now there are 5 op champs every patch, but thats to be expected of over 100 champs.

League started sucking ever since S6 preseason , but why. Thats because League became really complex and most of S5 meta things were either gotten rid of or changed, and balanced items were altered to become broken or weak. They basically just got rid of the old meta and added in new things. Like Youmus, which was back then a simple item, it gave crit, attack speed and movementspeed when activated, and armor pen. It was the only armor pen item back then but now there are like 4 so it can be stacked and abused horrible now. Old items also allowed for more smarter choices, like avarice blade early to get more gold, rangers trailblazer for sustain, crystalline flask for sustain in lane, and stealth wards allowed for smart people to buy wards that lasted temporary, and pink wards for long lasting. Of course Riot was like screw that, lets rework all these things and completely get rid of them all, so they decided to rework avarice blade into cull, rangers trailblazer into trackers knife, crystalline flask into corrupting potion, and pink wards into corrupt wards. The one problem is, all these items are way more complex to understand when and how to use them. Corrupting potion allows for healing, but lvl 1 you can only buy the item by itself, so its a tough choice for either to buy it for lane or not. Cull is also cheap, but now it doesnt build into any items unlike avarice blade that built into statik, so its only good if you know you'll be csing, and it also requires you to last hit correctly to actually make full use of it. without the ability to buy stealth wards, only sightstone can place them and that means only supports can give long lasting vision around the map...

Riot also decided to rework phantom dancer, which now is just the most unbalanced item I've ever heard. Back then it used to be simple, buy it for attack speed and crit. Now it's buy it for attack speed and crit, but make sure your champion is able to chase down enemies easily and that the enemy team can one shot you, otherwise you're only buying it for stats. Last whisper was also such a nice simple item, get attack damage and ignore enemy armor. ok so its a tank shredder item, but now oh ho, riot was like, lets completly fuck it up. So now it gives bonus armor pen, so you should only build it against tanks that build armor, and there are two different options, get the one that reduces healing or the one that deals more dmg depending on if the enemy has more hp or not. Great, more things to think about, here, im a lvl 5 new person playing league, I totally know to check the enemy's HP to see if they have more than me that way I know which one to build.

The worst idea Riot had was to rework an entire class of champions and release them all at once onto the live servers without play testing them that much. Oh, lets release Darius, Skarner, mordercaiser and Garen with their new abilities that arent broken at all. They just hired 12 year olds to think of new ideas for these champs and made Darius a aoe healing ability while also giving him more damage. Lets also keep Skarner the same cancer he always was, cc and pull the enemy adc in, but this time I get aoe cc just for landing an ability and auto attacking. Lets also make him a mini game, crystals on the map, if he gets them, he becomesm more broken. Oh yeah, lets also let mordecaiser control Dragon, which was a cool idea at first but then giving him abilities that dont make sense, like that white bar under his hp, WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? Took me a while to find out that it blocks damage or something. Ive played for a year after that update and i still dont get what he does. He also randomly heals and does a bunch of damage, but now no one knows what to do with him. Do we go full tank and be a tank for the team, full ap / hybrid to one shot adcs, go bot for dragon. Who tf cares, he can do anything but still no one likes him, and Garen was still the same except he does true damage and punishes people for getting kills and being good... and not to mention after the rework riot just nerfed them all to the ground and left them to die. The Juggernaut rework was one of the worst updates in the history of League, but nooo, Riot decides to rework more classes, also ruining the game even more.

The game has become way too complex ever since S5 and more unbalanced, I just wish S5 would come back so I can enjoy my time on this video game again. League has become to competitive ever since S6 with all these changes and broken items, that if even the enemy team gets one small lead, they just abuse everything. The game used to be just pick a champion, buy items that gave stats and play, but now you have to think about every move and make sure you buy everything correct and take your lead, otherwise you just lose. Bring back S5 FFS, it's all we ask for