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This season is a total failure, and none of the pre-season issues have been addressed

Yenn··3 votes·1,069 views

Quite literally every single game so far has been over by 5-7 minutes, thanks to turret plating and bounty gold. Neither of these mechanics are functioning as intended in high MMR games, they only serve to fuck over the losing team. Individual impact over games is even lower than it was last season, which I didn't think could even be possible, because you're now punished harder for trying to help your losing lanes.

This is significantly worse than the 5-man bottom lane clusterfuck we had in past seasons. There is even less comeback potential unless you're playing at low MMR, because once a team has an advantage, they just snowball out of control and don't make enough mistakes for the comeback mechanics to come into play.

Even worse, bounty gold actively punishes you if you're the only player doing well on your team, and turret plating is just free gold for the winning team.

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MrFawknSunshine4 votes

3 days into the actual season and its a complete failure ?

Yenn1 votes

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3 days into the actual season and its a complete failure ?

If the things we've known were problems for months during the pre-season haven't been fixed and we have to play our placement matches, which are the most important games of the season, with all of this bullshit in effect, then yes, it's a failure.

The fact that these mechanics haven't been removed or toned down shows that the design team won't accept that all of this shit they shoved into the game is a massive failure, and likely won't fix it.

Saezio1 votes

I think he is saying none of the preseason 8 problems have been addressed. Runes anyone?

MrFawknSunshine1 votes

well the screwed the pooch on runes when they deleted the old runes/masteries and came up with the runes reforged bullshit.

all they had to do was make full rune pages at tier 3 runes available to every one where its not gated behind IP or LVLs.

but we have this bastard ass system.

Saezio1 votes

Or, you know, leave it as it is :). Maybe some sales weekends or whatever.

Hethalean1 votes

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well the screwed the pooch on runes when they deleted the old runes/masteries and came up with the runes reforged bullshit.

all they had to do was make full rune pages at tier 3 runes available to every one where its not gated behind IP or LVLs.

but we have this bastard ass system.

Honestly, everyone just takes the damage runes because unless the utility runes are so busted ass OP it's not worth it coughGlacial Augmentcough lol and man is Glacial Augment hella... uh... interesting let's say

5050BS1 votes

Every game is a stomp one side or the other. Skill levels are not even close.

Still better jungler wins. Yep plating is gold for the winners only.

Yenn1 votes

2-6 in mid placements with champions I've had 55-60% win rate with in all past seasons, because I actually have zero agency over the game thanks to these snowball mechanics dumping thousands of gold onto the enemy team if my team is behind, while giving them even more advantage for killing me, as one of two (or the only) players performing well on my team.

There's really no excuse for the season starting with the game in this fucking sad state. Games should not be over by 7 minutes, because some lane is 0-6-0 and the enemy team has gotten bags of gold from them.

Let's not even mention all the S8 Challenger players who are now struggling with 35-45% win rate in Platinum I/Diamond IV

DU Baymax2 votes

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2-6 in mid placements with champions I've had 55-60% win rate with in all past seasons, because I actually have zero agency over the game thanks to these snowball mechanics dumping thousands of gold onto the enemy team if my team is behind, while giving them even more advantage for killing me, as one of two (or the only) players performing well on my team.

There's really no excuse for the season starting with the game in this fucking sad state. Games should not be over by 7 minutes, because some lane is 0-6-0 and the enemy team has gotten bags of gold from them.

8 games played. What a massive sample size with which to make such a sweeping generalization. I applaud your good science, sir!

Yenn1 votes

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8 games played. What a massive sample size with which to make such a sweeping generalization. I applaud your good science, sir!

The number of games doesn't matter, it's obvious that every game has one team snowballing out of control before the laning phase even ends, and everyone at Diamond knew this was going to happen in the pre-season.

DU Baymax1 votes

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The number of games doesn't matter, it's obvious that every game has one team snowballing out of control before the laning phase even ends, and everyone at Diamond knew this was going to happen in the pre-season.

I haven't noticed any more man babies giving up after ten minutes than normal, tbh.

I think it's far more likely you are just tilted and looking for a scapegoat to blame for your losses other than yourself.

[slayer-jinx-wink]

Aulzeren0r1 votes

Personally, I've had someone demand an ff15 every game I've played in ranked this season (about a dozen so far). Not a large sample size, but last season I only saw ff requests about 40% of my games, and even then almost always post-20.

DU Baymax1 votes

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Personally, I've had someone demand an ff15 every game I've played in ranked this season (about a dozen so far). Not a large sample size, but last season I only saw ff requests about 40% of my games, and even then almost always post-20.

well my personal experience has been quite different.

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

Nothing is holding you as a hostage in a game you don't enjoy anymore...

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