So why you can not play a normal without being in lcs finals.

ihaveapotion·8/19/2015, 12:43:30 PM·5 votes·1,053 views

Now we all know and understand riot created a toxic enviroment with the emphasis on esports, stripping down gameplay mechanics to its bones and creating flashy but far superior to 90% of the championpool infinite gap closer/escape carry champions for the sake of impressing people who have no understanding of videogaming so they pump more money into the scene, because it looks more lucrative and sells easier.

Now that fat cats and high roller corporations are satiated what remains is an influx of videogame players (a completely different breed) that actually play this game and for some reason a large number are completely brainwashed (something not unlike the real world) to a status quo dictation on how to play, where to play what and especially what not to. Something riot promotes by the way champions are now static in their builds and 'roles', A process wich used to be the reason league of legends was actually fun, the abillity to take your champ ad ap killlane/support or tank and put it anywhere, figure out fun comps for yourself. No, now you are forced to take champA to location A and build it setbuildmetaA and champB to location B and build it setbuildmetaB. Stray from this and you will gain the abillity to absorb hellfire in allchat/postgamechat, the tribunal, develope the emotional sentiments of inadequacy and pointlessness and perhaps even disease from high blood pressure.

Lets take my personal example, an increasingly rare sight of someone who isnt brainwashed to strictly play by metas and optimalization and just picks a champ hes good with and builds items according to the enemy team composition. If i go into a normal teambuilder and pick for instance teemo or nasus support and yes they are built to support (read their tooltips thanks) i first off get kicked atleast 10 minutes long, if i do get accepted into a team it takes another 10 minutes till theres an adc that accepts. If top dies, i get the emediate blame. These are very ordinary events though for leaugue, even the best players been through this. But it gets better. The enemy team will 9/10 consist of a botlane of vayne and thresh or trist or thresh, or graves and thresh, heck if it were possible it would be thresh and thresh. Look at my lolking (euw) and see the kda. Now understand i am a platinum mechanics player who always has his eyes on the map so no for a change it isnt my fault, pretty much all my games consist of my adc being detonated in lane, my top being detonated in lane (against riven 10/10) and my mid detonating in lane (against yasuo 10/10). With the reason that because of my offmetapicks i am often put with people who are lenient and likeminded about it (or afterall i would be kicked again or they would leave again) in other words, we never have lcs optimal esports team comps but the other team does and completely destroys us. There is no chance of winning against them. At all. This strenghtens the whole case of that league of legends has effectively been dumped down to an optimalization to play only the most imbalanced champs that in turn are made this way to have flashy esports shows.

How the heck am i going to manouver against a champ that has infinite gap closers/escapes, carries with hard cc etc.. You simply cant. The amounts of times i have been ultra-countered (that means theres literally nothing you can do against another lcs pick champ) are beyond count. For another example there was a recent game (yes normal) i selected heimer support, i mean why not; he can have brush control, has a stun and his ult turret is pretty good in lane, good enough to crap on 2 squishies. Guess what i had to deal with in this match, yep. mid Yasuo. Now please explain to me how you put down a turret and not get blown up because of it. Heck i shouldnt even need to put down turrets with heimer to get my shop window to open up after 2 seconds since yasuo can just fly through the jungle and our own minion waves to 2 hit me right? right. A bit like how rengar does the same, but then flashier.

I sure know what triggered it all, a huge mistake trying to fix something that wasnt ever broken in the first place; the bruiser era. You know what countered the bruiser era? Adc top. That was all you had to do to counter the bruiser era, but people rather stick to their little cubicles and dont think for themselves right? So everything had to be sacrificed so that set lanes for set roles continued to exist. The unnecessary measure against the bruiser era made assassins so powerful and snowballing in their lanes (rengar, zed, talon etc) that another measure had to be taken wich was escapes, because their damage could no longer be dealth with. Instead of skills or items with actives having escapes (there used to be a time where flash was considered op, please laugh now) riot created carry champions with escapes. Instead of support and tanks having cc, riot gave carrys cc to deal with the assassin era created by their dealing with the bruiser era. And even worse now tanks are being stripped of their tankyness itemization options and given more attack power. All roles are being done away with, wich will end in this game being what it looks like now; vayne/kalista/jinx, thresh/janna, lee sin, yasuo/ahri. Every single match. Welcome to league of legends.

Now im not for rambling without a solution here, so what i propose is that riot revamps their mechanics model severely, sure some players will have discontent but i doubt as much as people like me rightfully have when we have (in my case 500 euros) alot of money in this game and champions are changed completely on whim just to cater to the cough balance against extremely imbalanced newer $hampions.
Rework the abillitys of every single super-mobile champ and nerf their mobility down to acceptable levels, if they cannot be such as with lee sin without completely changing the way he plays, then at the very least change the way they communicate or severely increase their cost so they can only be used if someone is prepared to sacrifice another action. Such was the case with shen, he couldnt afford to ult if he had spammed all his abillities remember? And before people explode because their champ would no longer stomp every other non lcs pick champ in the game automatically, the balance of the game will thrive from it as a huge roster will finally open up to compete again. There is no reason why a carry champ should have infinite gapclosers and hard cc. Cc used to be reserved to supports that lacked survivabillity and damage and tanks that lacked damage and mobility. The diversity was the strenght of this game, you cant make all champs equal killing machines and expect the game to be able to evolve, if anything it will turn into checkers where it used to be chess.

I rest my case for now. -ihaveapotion.

5 Comments

Alljoy8/19/2015, 1:52:21 PM3 votes

A polite tl;dr for anyone intimidated for the Great Wall of Text here.

'league can't handle muh meta-breaking skills'