Riot if Battlerite was a good game model, then people would've just stopped playing league

Seriously, I get that riot is just trying to appease the much larger asian audience, and I'll be honest how games like battlerite do over there, but evidently people in the western market aren't interested in your MOBA (Multiplayer online battle arena) game, if you're going to sit here and strip all of the RTS and RPG elements out of the formula that the game started with. Seriously, if it was what people wanted then you'd be better off removing minions, removing towers, removing objectives all together, and just letting people duke it out in a fucking pit. Yet you don't do this outright, because it would obviously not work with the core design of the game, yet y'all have let the game slowly creep in this direction for years. Removing champions which obstruct this movement as needed.

Inexplicably riot has decided that the game needed to shift match influence, away from the player's real time strategic decision making skills and their ability to do something in conjunction with a team, instead opting to shove more and more of the "strategy" into which champions you pick, what runes you run, and what items you build. Aspects of the game, which players haven't been doing themselves FOR FUCKING YEARS if they so choose.

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Yet by neglecting the actual quality of these aspects of the game, because a lot of people don't actually give a fuck about actually exploring them, you create a system which isn't fun for people to experiment, which is the hole that you've decided to dig for yourselves. A game where the innovation MUST come from you and cultivated an audience that HATES when someone else manages to do it.

As a result there's no reason that these 3 aspects of the game should have almost ALL of the influence over your chances to win, but they do because riot keeps using them as the premises to establish "balance". So it's no wonder that they've become so important, if so many people are just skimming their builds off of websites, then all you have to do is make it so that the top tier builds aren't completely worthless and you can neglect anything which isn't.

Now I get it, there's only so many ways to measure things and riot is just trying to balance the game using statistics which they can gather which appear particularly meaningful. BUT, you're an absolutely fucking idiot, if you think that the correct conclusion is to line up with the aspects of the game which a significant number of players don't even bother doing themselves as the most influential aspects. Even the way in which kits are designed completely screws exploration and experimentation, because they fail to offer any degree of flexibility in their use. That doesn't mean some kits aren't flexible, but generally speaking the new kits that are flexible are a result of an abundance of mechanics, not the simplicity of the few they get.

On top of that, stop with all of these insanely high value completed item unique effects. If you're going to add them into the game, then fine, but one of the causes of the serious snowballing is the implicit power spike that every champion gets when they complete a meta item on them. Unique passives are fine, but if you're going to do that, then you need to give iterative power rather than a massive chunk of 2000g worth of mechanical power, because you spent 900g to upgrade it from the raw stats of the base items use to construct it.

The solutions are simple but by no means easy because it wasn't easy getting here, remove the importance of rune selection (simple runes don't limit design space), cut out the insane power spike of the unique effects on complete items, give champions a few broadly applicable mechanics rather than a bunch of narrow use ones, and for the love of god just make the game fun and people will come play it and get competitive themselves however much they want to be.

The game is about that stuff that happens between the load screen and the close window button, NOT YOUR RANK, NOT THE LOBBY, NOT THE 3RD PARTY WEBSITES. Make that fun and leave everything outside of that to player discretion