League of legends is becoming a boring game that rewards players for playing no skill champions

NsEternal··4 votes·766 views

League of legends is losing its magic. Since the changes that resulted in the Tank meta the game has been slowly becoming more and more easy in terms of not having to dedicate a large amount of time in order to become really good at a specific champion and people who play champions like riven, leesin, zed, ahri, leblanc, and other high skill cap champions that reward you for being good at them. The game has shifted from being able to hit skill shots and knowing how to kill the enemy laner you were trying to outplay into a game where who ever has the stronger tank that does damage based on how much hp they have. Champions such as maokai, kench, and now illoai have been slowly bringing the game down to an extremely boring and rewarding you for not playing a difficult champion. The game used to be a very competitive game where your decisions had a much greater impact on the game and now in certain aspects the game has become faster paced but that is because the average game isnt longer than 30 min usually. In many cases when im watching a stream the top lane tank usually has the highest amount of damage dealt to champions and the "attack damage Carry" has the lowest amount due tot eh fact that the game isnt long enough for them to get the items to deal the damage needed to carry the team.

From previous experiences in the game from back in season 3 and early season 4 assassins were the meta and while many cried about how OP Zed was or kassadin and to a certain extent there was a little to be desired but the way that they went about it was all wrong. Back in the day leona and thresh were usually the main supports that teams in the lcs had to get their hands on because of their pick potential and playmaking capabilities but now it is abou getting the beefiest and tankiest champions which aren't designed to reward people for good play they're designed to just dive in and be a shield for their team not be the almighty unkillable force that dominates the map and now a days champs that are primarily tanks now own the game and very few of them have skill shots. making the game not as rewarding when you outplay someone because for the most part the game is now about who has the stronger tank that that is one of the reasons why league is becoming a very boring game. Comment your thoughts id like to see what the community has to say.

7 Comments

The Yetii Rider6 votes

Riot is in the middle of buffing assassins and marksmen and nerfing tanks and mages. You'll get your skill based champs back (though animation canceling isn't a 'skill').

NsEternal3 votes

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Riot is in the middle of buffing assassins and marksmen and nerfing tanks and mages. You'll get your skill based champs back (though animation canceling isn't a 'skill').

what do you mean animation canceling isnt a "skill" yeah it is it takes time to master under stressful circumstances. i mean we can argue about this but id rather not lol

The Yetii Rider3 votes

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what do you mean animation canceling isnt a "skill" yeah it is it takes time to master under stressful circumstances. i mean we can argue about this but id rather not lol

Then we won't. I will simply state Riven takes no skill to play and you can move on, happy to have learned that assassins and marksmen are slated for buffs.

LaughingStapler3 votes

Skillshots are purely mechanical and have no intellectual depth really. A tanky champion may very well be more complex than a skillshot champion. Singed comes to mind here due to the way you have to understand map pressure and your exact limits.

blfUvZ8Ybu1 votes

My main Azir and I agree.Ahri,Lux,Diana,Mf are very easy champions and they have very high win rate.Both easy and high.It's not fair.

SithesisLord1 votes

Last i checked, there´s no such thing as a no skill champion.

Champions have different levels of mechanical skill required to play them. Not every champion has to be a Riven, a Lee Sin or a Yasuo in terms of complexity.

Boring is subjective.

I play Kayle and Shyvana and i have tremendous amounts of fun. The game rewards outplays and teamwork. It can´t care any less if you used a """""""faceroll""""""" like Yi or Katarina, or one of the famous 'LC$B1GPL4Y3R$'.

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