League isn't dying, but I've quit ranked for now

Elohaven·4/23/2018, 11:31:35 PM·1 votes·583 views

I have a 60%+ Winrate and easily stomping on my main but ranked doesn't compel me.

Yet, there's no point in the games. I'm really bored. t's a race on who gets fed and the issue with botlane isn't even ADCs individually. It's the fact that the game is dictated by who helps the ADC the most. Since the game is oriented so much around damage to make it "exciting", damage is the only way to win. I wish ranked was more like a miniature chess where I had a lot of ways to manipulate objectives and take them down.

I find ARAM more fun as it's a brainless gamemode where I can dive in, relax, troll with my friends, and not worry about meta/winning. I like normals since I can just relax and not worry about ranked where a single kill easily causes a global disbalance.

As an ADC main, I can say toplane is actually more exciting. (Although, I'm really bad at it for now) People say toplaners are trash right now and they can't carry but I believe that's only in high elo. The issue with botlane with its boredom, to me, is the fact that you have two events:

  • Fiesta De Botlane
  • Support Dictatorship

Fiesta De Botlane is the event where everyone comes botlane (literally) to fight/protect the ADC/get kills. This will always happen. Then you lose tower if you lose the fight unless you go even. It puts way too much pressure on one mistake as that Ace or my death basically just meant the other 15 minutes are an inevitable wait to surrender/lose.

Support Dictatorship:

Supports always make the lane in botlane. If I'm a Vayne vs a Caitlyn, I don't care if they have a Janna and I have a Zyra but I do care if they have an Alistar against my Lulu. Let's not forget that TahmKench is the most poorly designed champion in the game. Literally stops any engage or poor plays by allies or can int and troll. Yet champion interactivity is a subject we want to broaden on?

ADCs have no control of their lanes anymore unless ahead. Every laner literally comes to us, like we're babies, and tries to force us to eat apple sauce on steroids so we become buff and can carry them later. I admire being the main character but it's satisfying to see a Swain go 13/2 while I'm just a 6/0 Caitlyn just giving steady DPS.

So how would I fix this?

Midseason - damage from ADCs are being looked at so I'd like to see where that'd go. I would make bonus crit-damage scale by level from levels 8 to 13 though. Items like Guinsoos (with its percentages) scale with level as well. Thus, if incredibly fed, they are still rewarded but require a significant lead. This gives other lanes their time period of grace of early to mid-game dominance mostly. Also, I would nerf triumph to 7% HP with an item to break through shields like Executioner's Calling.

Now my favorite champion, Vayne, is an ADC - so I'd never quit the role. But I would like more matchups botlane as well. It's boring to see every support+ADC combination be such a small pool.

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