Why I like close games.
You know those really annoying people who always say "gg" if there team gives first blood well now they have a reason. I looked at my last 20 games and 9 out of 20 were surrendered and 2 of them ended before 20 mins, that's ridiculous and to be honest, stomp games aren't fun in the least bit and i think a lot of people would agree with me. When you used to stomp a team 17-4 and they ff at 20 you felt proud because it was harder to win by that much but now it gets boring and you resent stomping a team because now your like "oh now there gonna surrender" and its even worse if your on the other end. Unless a game goes above 35 mins it feels like a waste of time. if anything riot should be making games longer than they were before because those's close games are by far the best. Tbh this hasn't been a frustrating patch for me patch its just been a fairy boring one.
If i had to remove one change From this patch I would remove the fact that minions get stronger if your ahead. Like WTF that makes no sense, so now it's IMPOSSIBLE to comeback because you cant contest OBj's or enemy rotations because your trying to keep side lane control. Everybody has had that game where you're so far ahead and your about to take baron but then the enemy junglier flashes the wall and steals it and then the enemies comeback to win the game, but now you cant even contest dragon/baron because bot/top waves are always pushing in. You guys talked about wanting to eliminate the strategy of starving your opponents well this has made it worse because if your behind you are literally sitting in base wave clearing and waiting for the enemy to finally end the game while the enemy is taking every OBJ on the map and you can't make any moves to comeback in the game like sending Mundo and Vayne to sneak Baron under there noses because you gonna lose your inhibitors to minions. Now if it was the other way around where if your behind you minions are stronger because that give you so much more map control so you actually allowed to farm your jungle without overextending. With that implemented a league game would be so back and forth. First blue team gets ahead then they are forced back so now they're behind and now their winions are stronger, i think that would make so many close games and make league more of a battle for the nexus and not a Battle to make the other team /ff.
I hope you take this into consideration Riot and if you decide not to, maybe leave a reply why you think that making games shorter is better. But until then good luck on the Fields of Justice.