A 40 - 50 minute SR game is fun.

Longer games allow you to ...

• Explore more items / builds / paths

• Experience favorite champs early / mid AND late

• Fully utilize all strategies that longer games require

• Dragons actually will mean something (aka getting to a 5th)

• Long games let you see the "pinnacle" of champ's strengths

• Long games turn into "team games" by default (aka team must work together to win or at least make into a "long" game)

• Comebacks.

• MOST IMPORTANT... my beers usually last 40 - 50 mins before I'm ready for a refill... = fun.

• And more...

You mean these very very close nailbiting 40-50 minute games i suppose yea they are the most fun.

I don't understand how ppl are having shorter games.. mine are just as long as before..

In my opinion, the reason games in pre 6 are turning into "total snowball shitfests" is that people are out experimenting a bunch of random things like adc jg top mid, along with new items builds. We are experiencing yet another meta shift and assassins are back into business ... So overall there are those who are already getting the hang of something and those who area still clueless. Making for some chaotic games.

Just a matter of time before people get used to yi counters and banning raka.

Then again my opinion is based on my personal experience. Feel free to destroy my selfesteem.

I agree that something needs to be done. I have had two games that went 60 minutes and 45 minutes recently, but that was due to the enemy team not finishing us off when they had the chance.

every other game I've played so far since the patch has averaged 20-25 minutes. It's boring because I like building for the late game and late game champions. Hell by the time I've finished my on the games over and I'm sitting at mura and a second item! (this is including decent farm and champion kills/assists)

Don't even bother playing Kogmaw these days as unless you get super fed by a braum, you're not having an impact by the time it matters.

I personally don't mind them shortening games by a few minutes, but they need to seriously rebalance some champions if that's what they are going to do.

Nasus needs to get 5 stacks on minions.

Cassiopeia needs her passive (or even better remade)

ROA and seraphs need to stack faster

Sated needs to stack faster

Among many other changes

Okay, this isn't entirely true. I have more games ending sooner, but I've still had those 45 minutes games recently.

ikr, why would people want short stomp games? the real fun games are the ones that are very close with all lanes pushed into inhibs and are eventually closed by a good play, those are the games you feel satisfied after playing, not a game where bot lane goes 0/2 and they get into inhib at 15 minutes

I like longer games too, but some people like shorter ones. That said, since there are champions specifically designed to be strong late game, there actually needs to be a late game to get to in order for them to fit in the game.

I disagree. Personally I find 30-35 minute games to be the most enjoyable because I actually feel like playing League more after those. After 1 50 min game I'm just like "I'm done..."

Personally, 30-40 minutes is my "sweet spot" for games. Generally if they last longer than that, they last too long and feel drawn out, and generally if they are shorter than that, then the game was most likely a stomp in one direction or the other.

A 40-50 min SR game is fun, I mean you play a game that you love during a game for 40-50 mins long, whats not to love. I had my fair share of 40-50 min games before this new season, I also had my share of 20 min games where my team or the enemy team gets destroyed. Its all about telling your team to play passive until late game. Most 50+ min games last that long because of the team comp. Example if a team has a Jax and/ or a Mundo chances are those games will last longer because of the late game power spikes for those champions. Just stay positive in your games ahead/behind and just play passive if behind farm up, farm your jungle or " push pull the lanes" where you cs the lanes without pushing the lanes too far, and you will make it to late game.
Remember what you say because some people like longer games, but when the games are long and you play 3-4 in a row chances are the same people like you complain because the games are too long. 6 out of 10 games I play that games that are 50+ my teammates want to rush the game at that moment because they feel the game has gone long enough, even if rushing it would make a possible win into a lost because they cant handle the pressure that comes with longer games.
Have a good one ( sorry for long reply) I know reading is hard

My last game was pretty long. We were loosing the whole time and the support quit early in but we still won and it was real fun. I was playing vayne and her late game is op. It was the first game I've played where we all grouped at base for a few sec to think of the best way to win. But pretty much every other was 20min surrender and yeah there are not as fun

but if you have to pee you're stuck in a neverending cycle of hate and suffering

My games all end at like 20 minutes. But no one will surrender or end so the games drag out to 40. :/

longer games are not more fun unless you have unlimited time to play this game.

que + champ selection + loading + game = 1 hour? No thank you from those of us with full-time jobs.

yeah, watching long range mages brain afk farm and outscale all of the early champions was so fun to play against.

I get tilted even thinking about the c9 game in worlds against IG where they had a fucking QSS veigar because clearly a box that stops all dashes and flash isn't enough escapes.

right now you can actually take ignite top lane and beating your opponent in lane actually counts for something since you can apply heavy pressure in to other lanes after grabbing your tower now.

Everyone who saying that games average 25 minutes are lying. The games are averaging 33-41 minutes but I would like to see them at 40-50 minutes with that occasional game that goes 50+. If you want a shorter game play twisted treeline. Actually I would love to see a solo queue twisted treeline.

Long game

• is prone to AFK due to dog eating someone's laptop.
• is boring as everyone falls off besides long-ranged mage, adc and tank.
• is annoying as team fails if you have just one retard who refused to participate.

" - Game Duration Game duration, and snowballiness, has been one of the things we've spent the most time looking at and talking about since the preseason launch. So far it's looking like the average game is a couple of minutes faster. There are some changes coming in 5.23 that will likely impact that, in particular a change to Homeguard that gives a modified version to every player after 20 minutes, somewhat tougher turrets (see above), and changes to minion strength that cause them to push more if their team is winning (giving winning teams opportunities to siege/losing teams opportunities to farm and catch up).

In terms of direction, two of the big things we're looking at are the concerns that games are ending too often before late game and that a single mistake mid game may be deciding things too much, too often. We're also looking at whether games are too stompy in general. Some increase in stompiness is expected for the first patch of the preseason, as people experiment with new things, that's something that should fall off fairly quickly though. If not, we'll need to make some follow up changes."

Ty Riot