Death timers are too long at 30 Minutes: Or bases need to be a bit stronger

1 Wing··1 votes·904 views

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS IS PLAYED PRIMARILY WITH RANDOM PEOPLE

One team member was caught out and killed. Five man push mid. Our inhib down, at 30 minutes, one team member dead.

I fight two of them. I die, but the 3v3 fight goes so well, that now ->i<- am getting close to being alive again; there's only ten seconds left on my timer, at 32:00

The enemy hasn't touched our nexus towers yet. Jax is exchanged for our ADC, so that's a huge amount of physical damage that is never applied to our base at all: 0 damage from Jax.

The enemy team has two full mages, who have built no attack damage or attack speed.

Even still, at 30 minutes, they punch through both nexus towers, and the nexus, and I only just have time to revive, and issues a walk command across the screen! And Jax is dead, with 2 full mages on their team, and 0 damage was dealt to the nexus towers! It only took them ten seconds to destroy everything! Without Jax!!

The enemies were all so weak! If I could have attacked just twice, I certainly would have killed one of them. Then they no longer have the damage to take down the nexus so fast. Now another champion is just a few seconds away: my skill is keeping us in the game-!

Except the game is already over.

The death timers are too long. Or the base needs to be a little bit stronger! Jax was dead! Come on!! It's thirty minutes in!

Because one guy got caught.

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS IS PLAYED PRIMARILY WITH RANDOM PEOPLE

As a high level team game, this can make sense. But in a random group of five: it sucks that one person got caught, and we lost the game--with the other four at full health--because one person got caught, at 30 minutes: and we killed Jax!!!

the enemy team, just walked in, and smashed it!! We played almost the perfect 4v5 battle!!!

And I died defending the base, and now I'm just reviving, and If I can just attack, even just once, we can defend the nexus. That's a fun game, right!! My skill, having an impact on who wins the game! My skill!! Not the skill of the player who got caught! But the skill of the players who are good, to defend the nexus! Riot! Your game doesn't let us defend!!!

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS IS PLAYED PRIMARILY WITH RANDOM PEOPLE

5 Comments

Febos1 votes

Death timers are good the way they are. Games are not supposed to last 40 minutes. If you farm well and build correctly, you'll have full build at ~30 minutes and at that point the game should be over. Once your team gets aced, after the 30 minute mark, you are supposed to lose that game (assuming that they have 1 or 2 towers down).

1 Wing2 votes

[{quoted}](name=The Febos,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=skNvnxk3,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2016-07-02T21:04:48.169+0000)

Death timers are good the way they are. Games are not supposed to last 40 minutes. If you farm well and build correctly, you'll have full build at ~30 minutes and at that point the game should be over. Once your team gets aced, after the 30 minute mark, you are supposed to lose that game (assuming that they have 1 or 2 towers down).

I don't know where you're living, that you get full build at 30 minutes, even 80% of the time. It's only the best carries that are armed that well. This game isn't "two carries, and three robots"

We didn't get aced:

We got one person caught out.

He revived before anyone else died, but we were fighting a 4v5 battle, and that's pretty rough.

1 Wing1 votes

[{quoted}](name=The Febos,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=skNvnxk3,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2016-07-02T21:04:48.169+0000)

Death timers are good the way they are. Games are not supposed to last 40 minutes. If you farm well and build correctly, you'll have full build at ~30 minutes and at that point the game should be over. Once your team gets aced, after the 30 minute mark, you are supposed to lose that game (assuming that they have 1 or 2 towers down).

Also, lets not forget that, in season one, games very often went to one hour ten minutes. This was toned down, but saying that now: even half an hour is too long?!??!?

I played in season one: long games are fun, some of the time! There needs to be varience: 1/100 games, should go to one hour.

1/100 games, should win, in fifteen minutes. 50/100 games go to 38 minutes.

That's the kind of game, I want to play.

1 Wing1 votes

. . .why do we want a game that last 10 minutes? There are hundreds of those games. .

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