RIOT Revert the Minion change from 8.23 Bad game design and terrible for Solo carrying

Skýcrow·8/21/2019, 3:32:39 AM·2 votes·1,958 views

One of the reason why it's so hard and feels terrible to solo carry nowadays when ur team is behind but your ahead, is that the Minions from sidelanes do not bounce back anymore after a Push.

Before the minion change that riot did, minions tend to push back after u pushed them towards the enemy base. This created a situation that you could abuse, by rotating back to midlane, potentially outnumbering your enemys, and being able to dive them, in case someone from the enemys decided to take the "minion wave" before "it's gone".

Well guess what, nowadays you can't create this advantage anymore because the wave will perma freeze on the exact spot where it clashes for almost eternity. This right there, is BAD it's TERRIBLE. It hurts you so much, because basically makro gameplay or outsmarting your opponent and getting a advantage over time, is GONE.

It's so hard as a Solo player, when ur in the team where mostplayers have no control anymore over lanes because they are all behind, to actually get a lead after 15minutes. it's really almost nonexistent, i have to stay mid. Even if i go to a sidelane i'm no longer able to abuse this, i'm no longer able to create 5v4 situation for my team who is behind for comeback szenarios, even when i should, because i'm ahead, because my enemy simply doesn't care and he can go to the sidelane whenever he wants without any disadvantages because the wave refuses to bounce back so there is no PRESSURE for him loosing gold versus me or my team at all.

Also it's super strange for me what riot did, because if i remember correctly they made this change with the intention, that minions can pressure towers more. Sorry but this all failed. I remember how in previous seasons many times a Lcs team could abuse slow Pushes because minion waves stacked up, 3-4 waves of massive sizes (even in Solo queue!). Those waves do not exist anymore. The entire Purpose that riot claimed "wanting to archive" with this change has absolutely failed and yet, riot completely ignores it.

If any rioter reads this, ask yourself now please: "How was/is this change in any way good for Players and the Game?"

1 Comments

adceazyas1238/21/2019, 6:18:28 AM1 votes

agreed, that made this game so skill less when they added it.