League Of Legends what happened to you?
This game used to be so enjoyable to play and watch.
Back then , I would queue up and I knew that I would definetely have fun ,even if I lost. Now I queue up hoping that the enemy team will not pick Maokai, Kha Zix , Poppy etc.
Back then, I would queue up and I knew that I had a variety of picks to chose from marksmen. Now I queue up , forced to pick Varus , Jhin or Ashe . If I pick something else its most likely that I would be useless the whole game.
Really Riot? There is such a variety of adcs to pick and you close the circle to 3 marksmen only? In a few words you just tell to the community and pro players " Hey Summoners we advise you to pick Varus , Ashe , Jhin otherwise you will be a complete zero in the game."
There is an even bigger variety of top laners to pick and again you shrink this champ pool to heavy-raid boss- untouchable -undead- baron like FREAKING TANKS.
Here is an idea. How about stopping favoring one or two roles each season and start bringing a balance to all of them? :) I know no game has such thing as a perfect balance but this situation right now is a disaster. How everyone can see it except for you Riot?
There is an answer to that too. You don't take community opinion into account . I hate CS:GO and Valve because of their poor VAC security system (so many hacks) , but I have to admit they really take community opinion into account. You need proof? Whoever plays CS:GO even a little bit , knows that the maps: Cache and Nuke are maps that were created by some members of the steam community. Moreover if you are bored playing competitve (aka ranked) there are so many mods and maps from workshop which you can have fun with contrary to LoL which has only Summoner's Rift and ARAM.
Now about the ESports , there is no much to comment about.
Just search LoL highlights Worlds 2013-2015 and then compare them to LoL Worlds Highlights 2016-2017 . Esports don't provide us with spectacle anymore. The most you will see right now with this situation is a flashy cocoon play by an Elise and thats it :O . Now Imaqtpie gathers more viewers than EU LCS sometimes. The only time that LCS gathers viewers is when TSM or C9 plays and thats because all the hype TSM , C9 fan boys gather up, only to start spamming C9> TSM OR TSM > C9 OR NA LCS > EU LCS.
Back then , you would see Faker , Bjerg , Doublelift , AlexIch , Diamondprox etc. make stunning plays like going ham , getting a kill and then get away with it. Now, you see 8 guys farming waiting for a mistake from someone to get caught . If you make an attempt for a stunning play...hahah no way... there will be a raid boss poppy sending you back home or she will kill you. If you try to kill her? You are jokking right? This thing can rest easily at the enemy base for many seconds :P .
And you know what lets say you go ham into 3 people and you manage to kill their adc and get away safely. Believe me it is not worth to waste your spells on the enemy adc because Riot made sure that ADCs will be as much significant as minions this season but I'm afraid I offended the minions comparing them to ADCs. A Sivir hitting a Poppy really reminds me a random soldier trying to shoot down Godzilla.
At first it was kinda funny but then it became tiring and bothersome.
A professional player of Roccat "Betsy" said : " Riot loses so much by making this game so team based."
I couldn't agree more with that statement. LoL needs to be team based but not that much Riot. Individual effort sometimes must make the difference and that's what makes the game fun especially at solo queue. Even smurfers find it harder to climb gold - platinum - diamond . Gosu said that too.
Anyway I posted with the hope that Riot might see it and take it into account or at least correct me if I'm wrong somewhere. Chances though are near 0% .
I want from the community to tell me if I'm wrong somewhere or to add another imbalances that they see.
P.S. I forgot to mention the bounty system which is the most bad idea I've ever seen in a MOBA game. In a few words , this system punishes you for doing good. That's why some games go up to 50 minutes and the late game picks win always. Imagine a bounty system like dota's ( the champ who dies loses gold ). The games will be faster and snowballing will be harder. Good players will be rewarded and late game champs will be more careful the next time they want to overextend. I hate it when a Trynda pentakills us late , meanwhile he was being a complete zero the rest of the game. No matter how bad you are , you are always going to have a huge impact a late game with Trynda.
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