Yes, you did in fact lengthen SR games...

ADC Yuumi·Jan 1, 2019·1 votes·1,654 views

But failed to adjust all champions and gameplay to said elongated gameplay.

Before this, a Jinx could be 20 min in and just finally finish Infinity Edge. Winning lane via farm allows her to be the first to become a threat. This makes the enemy laner's laning phase longer because she can easily beat them as punishment for not farming quick enough.

Now, around 16 min a Jinx can have a Stormrazor and Zeal with Tier 2 boots. Runes improve her early game vastly and allow the used to be who farms faster lane turn directly into a warzone at the beginning of the game. The early damage cover ups and gold given makes early games plentiful.

Am I wrong?

5 Comments

ZephyrDrakeJan 1, 20192 votes

And even then jinx is still a terrible champion so... your bias against jinx means nothing to us

DuskDaUmbreonJan 1, 20192 votes

So you wanted to make the game longer but also scale everything the exact same rate so that there was no functional change?

HotarµJan 1, 20191 votes

Is there any evidence showing that game length has been increased? It doesn't seem like that would make any sense given the amount of damage/snowballing that can easily take place in the majority of games. I could be wrong but this just doesn't sound correct to me.

InfernapeJan 1, 20191 votes

Tbh games tend to last longer in low elo. The few games I have played still felt snowbally as all hell.

ADC YuumiJan 1, 20191 votes

I mean one of Riot's changes was to make games last more than 25 or less min. They did that. But the thing is everything before the lengthening through minions and towers was not adjusted for it.

So you're basically forced to be in lane for 14 min before being able to do anything else AND have the average gold ( and more due to the bounty layout ) from the previous quick laning phase the last season had.

Roundabouting to my point, how 20 min in a Jinx in Season 6 / 7 needed around 15 min to get Infinity Edge; while this current season in the same amount of time Jinx could get Stormrazor, Berserker's Greaves and Zeal.