Instead of making the game more enjoyable to watch, make it more enjoyable to play.
Don't balance the game around LCS. When people hate the game, they don't want to watch it.
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The artistic content seems to be among the main things enjoyable about LoL this days. Only thing that's still admired by the majority - something that could make you say something like: Good job!
Cause having some fun while playing the game in Rank - seems more like a lottery - cause of the way the system works! Same can't be said about getting tilted (angry and stressed out to the point of having a stroke), now that's easy and common.
Balance issues is on thing (quite important/relevant - but there's more, much more) - but being punished - cause other people are real jerks is another. For example:
- loosing points in 4 vs 5 games where winning is close to impossible 9/10 times (cause someone decided to go afk - after 3 minutes / happened just last game - a zed going afk in the middle of the game "while saying that he has to go to work" and apparently he was to idiot to realize that "before joining a rank game" / that's another 35 minutes + 20 lp lost cause of the way system works - being punished cause of others)
- being forced to start and play a game with someone who's heavily toxic since champ select (muting dosn't help if that piece of shit wants to play your role - and trolls you for it)
It's one thing to loose a game cause you or someone from your team played bad or simply made some mistakes - and another "to be forced to WASTE TIME - in games that are lost since champ select". + loosing Ladder Points - "cause of the way system works" - and not becasue of the way you played - which translates to more wasted time!
[sg-ahri-1]
I've shown my support for LoL/RIOT while spending around 1000$ in this game + thousands of hours. So, it's just common sense to expect the same. And no,i'm not rich (not spending easy earned money - or my parents money). Those were actually hard earned money (quite literally / i worked in a warehouse lifting tons a day - to the point where i fucked my health). Couldn't find a better job at that time - and same as most people i had rent and bills to pay.
but muh LC$
Remember the times when multiple different strategies could be taken into games, and we could see specific comps other than "these champs do the most damage/stop people from doing their damage"
I remember back in seasons 3/4/5 when teams would pick double global comps (shen + tf) into siege comps (xerath/ziggs + caitlyn/trist/jinx) or pick comps (Vi + Ahri/Zed) into double revive comps (Aatrox + Zac) or even triple revive comps (Aatrox + Zac + Zilean) and I could understand win conditions and strategies because they were clear and concise. Well, I guess they still are clear and concise - "pick/ban whatever's op and does the fastest burst!! kai'sa adc + zoe/malz/akali mid WOOHOO BIG FLASHY PLAYS KAI'SA ULTED O M G AKALI'S DASHING EVERYWHERE!!!!
Except these big flashy plays happen maybe once(?) per game because 1 won fight basically snowballs a game so quickly now, and now all I see are two very damage oriented comps dancing around an objective until one side screws up/has to back off because of a split or crashing waves.
Upvote this shit. I'm so sick of "It's okay for champ X to be OP AF because he's balanced in Pro play"
FUCK PRO PLAY
No reason why they can't do both. Haven't played dota in a long time and still enjoyed the international far more than any league event. Riot should just make sure no champion is overpowered in either pro play or solo queue with the understanding that this will make certain champions underpowered in one or the other.
Ever since the competitive exploded Riot found a way to promote their game by doing everything for that scene and not soloq.
i remember the times when you could play any champ for that role and not just specific ones and when not everything was around you. Nowadays people just pick Kaisa,Xayah or some other adc that is just a monster mid/late game and they play around them and pick around them. I say this because i remember when i used to watch LCS and the camera was going everywhere cause there was action all the time, now pay attention how they do it. Camera never leaves botlane and if it does it moves to a jungler that came top to clear a ward, that came mid to clear a ward and that's it. Moving back to bot. Why is it like this? Because top is either a tank (boring to watch) or just a super late game scalling champ (boring). Mid is also scalling like Irelia,Ryze,Azir,Cass and even those matchups could be fun but they just don't want to fight, they wanna scale and junglers are afks in the game going around clearing wards. The only time they are useful is when they all rotate BOT to take turret and to smite drake. That's it, they just rarely gank, they rarely make the game fun. Bot is just 2 adcs farming, while their supports move rapidly left and right like they are thinking of going in, so they pace back and forth but in reality they are just so bored, cause all they do is wait for their support item to shine so they can take a creep for their adcs. And we are back to moving rapidly left and right, cause we are pros.
Legit every game is residentsleeper. It's sooo boring, teams are so boring. Scalling champs everywhere, teams are just pussies and don't want to fight, lanning is boring cause nobody does anything. I'm often here watching at a fucking screen for 30 min how everyone is farming, literally the score is 0 : 0. What the fuck am i doing with my life. Oh wow, 30 min of everyone afk wasn't for nothing, they are finally fighting...aaaaand its a bug, so we remake or we wait for 10,15 min. And we are back, wait, we will finally see some fights! Oh wait no, they are just 'baiting' a Tp at baron pit. Wait they are fighting, what do i do, where do i watch????? oh wait, nobody is doing anything, they are just peeling for their adcs that eventually ints by jumping into their team, dies and loses the game (Cody Sun). And with an adc down, the game is over, they push and win. Yay, that game (that one fight) was so fun, until that guy inted. 30-40 min of nothing for well..basically nothing.
Oh crap, it's a 3rd place match and who wins goes to Worlds!! Oh wait, everyone is afk and the score at 25 min is 1 ; 2. Wow, amazing. The only fun i have recently from watching LCS is when i watch Froggen apparently cause he is the afk dude that always tries to beat his farming record. im over here watching 40 min game how the dude is farming it and breaking the record, cause apparently that is the only interesting thing to watch (and the only thing)
If they’re trying to make League fun to watch, they are failing miserably.
25 minutes of 0-0 until one team fight happens and the game is over. So much suspense.
It is fun to play
Honestly, besides the global stuff like Shen whose abilitiy (ies) are way more effective in a coordinated team and the patches leading up to worlds. Champs don't really get balanced around lcs usually if a champ is getting nerfed cause of pro play besides the above reason its because they were just broken in high elo as well as being abused in the lcs
People do not need to be able to play league to enjoy watching it is riot's end goal lol; but without players pro scene dies anyway
Well lets just wait and see how hyped for worlds the fan's are after the PAX fiasco.
Might change their priorities.
well freaking said. 100000000/10
wish i could upvote more.
I've heard people say that its not even that fun to watch either, its the people who are fun to listen to, like Trick2g, Hashinshin, Tyler1 etc. I never watched LCS. But apparently some of my favorite characters are getting ruined and characters who are completely unenjoyable to play against are getting created because of LCS..
How much they are ruining changing the game purely because of LCS makes me not want to support it or even give it a view.
they don't want to watch it.
I mean i like watching it and same i guess for all the thousand of peoples that tune in?
I HATE the reworks they've been doing.