@riot. why solo carry identity is important in league. stop removing it
with the minions auto pushing when ahead, along with the massively increased snowball rate of the game, it seems like your trying to create more of a "fight only" game like heroes of the storm. that is what HotS currently is.
league is so much better than that riot
the level of strategy in league is many magnitudes higher than hots.
what makes league so fun is even though its a 5v5, there is still insane levels of solo-carry in this game. (there is NO solo carrying in hots)
if someone a tier above lanes against someone a tier below (like gold vs plat) the plat will destroy the gold. and that 1v1 solo carry power allows a plat to carry gold games and have 80% winrates in gold games (until they reach their real skill level elo, which is plat). throw a plat into a gold game and the gold players will be afking in fountain by 10 minutes
league is so great because of the solo carry ability which still exists. but riot many changes your making are starting to remove this aspect heavily. and thats a bad thing
in league to solo carry you need deep knowledge of your champion, the matchup, and how to min/max your items for the best stats to counter your opponents powers while also min/maxing how you spend your resources (and by that i pretty much just mean your champions cooldowns and very presence on the map) in the map and where on the map to best produce pressure and power for your team
in HotS there is almost zero solo carry ability. its literally just something for casuals to play and chillax with and just have some deathmatch fun and hope your team doesnt suck and just chillax because theres no solo carrying in that game. thats all heroes of the storm is. its boring as hell for someone competitive like me.
please riot dont destroy the competitive solo carry nature of league too much. or your highly competitive playerbase that came here due to leagues competitive solo carry nature may quickly move to dota 2 which will never remove its solo carry identity
why is a solo carry identity important?
well ill just get right down to the psychological aspect i guess. here is why competitive gamers like league so much
league is, as with most video games, mostly played by men. usually young men
all men young or old usually have high levels of testosterone flowing through their veins
testosterone makes males highly aggressive and combative. and gives males the desire to dominate and exert control and power over other males of the species. these desires are coded into us and we cannot escape them.
this game gives males a outlet to exert some of that desire to dominate in a fun harmless way. we can dominate our opponent 1v1 in lane and wreck him. and it makes our brains release pleasure chemicals whenever we achieve our natural male mammalian goal of dominating fellow males of the species.
every time we kill a nexus. our brain releases pleasure chemicals and we feel powerful after dominating and proving our power to our own selves. you could be alone in your room with no one watching. but the brain itself naturally is designed to release pleasure chemicals whenever a male performs an action that his higher mind judges as being an act of dominance and power and victory
our higher mind must first judge something as victory. theres no way for the cells in the brain to know when you win or lose. but the higher mind (and what the higher mind is we dont know. at this point it comes down to beliefs because theres no real proof of what we are. maybe you believe spirits are real and our mind is our spirits and our true self and we are connected to our bodies. or maybe you believe were all just molecules and nothing more. theres no proof either way. both sides could be right. its a mystery. i personally consider myself a "agnostic" as in i believe spirits/god could be real i just have no proof of either side)
anyway thats not the point i am trying to get at here. regardless of what our higher mind is, our bodies still function how they function so back to the point. the higher mind judges killing the nexus as victory. our higher mind concludes victory and we feel happy because our brain releases pleasure chemicals whenever we judge that we have been victorious
and on the other side, when our higher mind judges that we have been defeated our brain releases feel bad chemicals. when the higher mind judges failure and defeat, the human brain is designed to release chemicals of sadness (or for me. i no longer feel sadness when my nexus falls. i have switched it around. i now consider these to be chemicals of motivation. where some people feel sadness from these chemicals. i instead feel motivation)
just getting down to the pure roots and the real reasons. these are the real reasons why competitive games like league are addictive for young males. human males are designed to desire competitive nature. and to compete with rival males in society. and league gives us a virtual fun experience of being able to exert our dominance without hurting anyone
riot if you take away the solo carry competitive aspect of league that makes a male feel like "i fricken dominated this game" too much. then i assure you, the young males filled with testosterone will move to dota 2 pretty quick
please god riot. stop trying to copy the pussy fest that is heroes of the storm
