It's almost that time of the year again.

My hopes: More support itemization, mostly revolving around Sightstone being like the jungle items and ability to combine gold item + sightstone. More ADC itemization; no one wants BTs, PDs, and IEs in every single game. More unique items (Dead Man's) New Champions with New Mechanics Revamp of Poppy/Taric Return of Tribunal Removal of Promo Series Graves to have his cigar back

ADC itemization overhaul.

Some things to hope for:

• 5 bans per side (1 for each player)
• Promotion elimination
• Finishing routing optimization to the Chicago servers
• Removal of Sated Devourer with the promise that a similar item will not be attempted again
• Tanks - NOT JUGGERNAUTS are buffed
• Assassin Ahri comes back instead of this mindless kite mage
• Revive is returned
• Vayne counters are buffed since I don't want to feel guilty about playing her
• The balance team stops their drug sessions during office time and balances for the player for once instead of the pro scene and will take feedback from players instead of being ignorant pricks about it pretending what they're doing is for the greater good
• They'll roll everything back to the later part of the Cinderhulk meta where people were generally happy about game balance and how many viable picks we had and accept that not everything needs to be #FlashyLCSBigPlaysSwagYolo420Airhorn for League to be entertaining

What will most likely happen:

The balance team will have a grand idea for how to save League balance, they'll fuck it up horribly, ignore feedback, release the idea anyway, and people will be even more angry with them. CertainlyT will create another toxic abomination that forever warps gameplay and utterly breaks the game, Riot will still allow him to touch champions, the balance team will see this champion as fun and exciting, buff them, and the game will be borderline unplayable for the next 5 patches.

The Boards very own Jesus (Repetoir)said.

As to Juggernauts and player sentiment around them, my personal opinion is that we probably still have some fine tuning follow-up to do to them in the upcoming patches, and then hopefully they'll be in a good long term spot. The goal of big changes like the Juggernaut changes is definitely to find these somewhat antiquated characters a new niche/home in the game, and we are pretty fully aware we won't hit the mark on all of them, especially on the first try. I'm personally pretty excited for pre-season, because as a designer on champions, it means I have a lot more freedom to explore ideas for champions without them being such a huge risk to game balance down the stretch.

So we might see more reworks!

I'm hoping for not an enormous jungle revamp, as it would require me to relearn a role I am already extremely familiar with. This will be the first time I'll be here during a preseason (joined League at around 5.3), so it will be fun to watch such huge changes unfold.

"Compensation Buffs" and

Revert the bad reworks, unwanted balance changes and the stupid class system we have atm.

I'm expecting the Marksman rework this preseason.

And Poppy's as well.

rework possibly probably gets her rework gutted wouldn't be that shocked to see something happen to (Rework/power shift in her kit)

So aka I'm not going to have a fun time at all.

But I hope they just redo the jungle again and put in another BC/targons OP level item and call it another preseason.

P.S. Rip there's no way this item lives another season.

MY hopes: Jungle being balanced for once. That's it.

Anyone know when the actual pre season starts ? :O

Poros. Poros everywhere.

Wishlist: 3 new refunds No more champions with bullshit kits No more repeats of the past where something returns worse than ever with even more power ADC item rework Reverting the nerfs of Gromp, and Gutting champions that have enough time in the spotlight Buffs for No more reworks (looking at you, CertainlyT) where everyone gets True Damage and remove any chance to ban champions that aren't the monstrosities of 5.16. Reworks for

Some buffs ?

My hopes: not having to ban the juggernauts/fiora/vayne every game.

I just enjoy the period of time where the meta is thrown into turmoil. Happens after basically every major change, but Preseason changes definitely have a longer-lasting effect. People won't start caring what champions I pick/ban for as long as a month.

Complete ranked work over. It's insane my promos are dependent on how well might team needs to do making it completely based on luck because if I get decent teammates I'll climb, but I get crap teammates for 2/3 games and I go nowhere.

ADC not being the only carry i have to play in the game without making them weaker in their role

meddler said in another thread there isn't a huge jungle change this time around :/

hopefully something interesting like new runes, a new mastery page, something :/

"New Champions with New Mechanics" I just hope they fix the old ones first. Also Ao Shin maybe?

the biggest question is: where will the new jungle camp be located this year?