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Azeranth··4 votes·316 views

Alrighty Riot Game, Reddit, Boards, Forums, all of you. It's here. All the rage, all the feedback, all the legitimate criticisms, all the explanations, all the math. All of it. In one convenient video. If you haven't seen it, I suggest you watch it now, last week's Beyond The Rift watch it, because in it, they cover everything wrong with the game. Not from just Hashinshin narrow angry top laner perspective, but from the combined perspectives of 3 highly experienced league professionals, one of whom works for Riot's play testing team. But, if your lazy, I have a list of all the things wrong with the game. A simple checklist to balance the game, as each of these is covered in the video:

1.) Fix ADC itemization to not be the cheapest in the game. "But what about triforce and Bloodthirster" yeah no, don't play that game. You know damn right well we all mean zeal items. 2600 gold for a complete item when Black Cleaver is 3600 and Triforce is even more than that and isn't even an ADC item. It is unnaceptable to have an advantage early game, a shorter gold curve AND be the most relevant thing late game. It's disgusting, and it's broken.

2.) Remove the ungodly amount of max health damage in the game. It's what made Ornn busted, it's what makes Vayne God or Garbage, it's why Fiora is the subject of so many Reddit posts. The concept is inherently ridiculous. I suggest replacing it with some other mechanic that works like Giant Slayer

3.) Tone down ambient gold. Supports get so much shit for free. I'm a support main, and I goon out with Brand, Blitz, Shen, Poppy, Alistar, Thresh. I play it all, and it's all stupid. I like it, cause it's freelo for me, but it's dumb. It also makes lane pressure irrelevant. Because missing CS doesn't hurt anywhere near what it should. Lane control is the macro play, if "farming feels so boring" then it's cause you don't understand how to do it, go watch some SoloRenektonOnly

4.) Fix towers. They are absolutely paper to everyone right now. I shouldn't be able to take mid tower solo if I get 2.5 waves alone with it. That's just stupid, and it makes playing anything that would roam or skirmish equally stupid, to the point where playing anything that leaves lane is basically inting.

5.) Decreases the respawn times, and the gold on jungle camps. The Gold/Minute shouldn't change too much, but the amount of time the jungler can spend jacking off in Tri bush should.

6.) Preemptively Nerf all the currently Meta Bruisers and fighters, because the only reason they are able to be Meta in this shitstorm you call a game, is because they're absolutely over tuned for an actually healthy Meta, they've managed to power creep with the game.

7.) Nerf tanks early. Don't need tank items, don't nerf armor or magic pen, don't take away their late game or their CDR. Take what tanks are early game, and gut it. Playing a tank early should feel like Tru suffering, but right now Maokai beats down Renekton at all stages of the game. Unnaceptable. Fix it. Nerf their damage, sustain, and durability early. tanks are scaling champs like carries, why don't they have the same early game trade offs?

8.) DON'T TOUCH MIDLANE it is currently the most balanced part of the game right now, which is fucking sad because even mid lane is fucked. But something needs to serve as the rock. Something has to remain reliable, so that we can accurately test and balance.

9.) Accept that this process will be slow, painful, and full of rage. The game is miles high with layers of shit. There will be terrabytes of ADCs and junglers crying because Darius did something other than cut himself as he farmed toplane. There will be Reddit threads like you won't believe, telling you why jungle sucks, because you fall behind in gold, when in reality, it'll be because all the people that have degenerated into "full clear and perma gank" will have to relearn jungle.

10.) Lastly, explain why any of this is wrong. If the community is wrong, don't ignore us. Have a conversation. When is the last time Riot has said "we know you're saying this, but you're wrong Reddit, and here's why" instead there is silence and disappointment. Maybe your community would watch LCS if you listened to your community for once.

Fix it Riot, you have no excuse. Literally none. It's unnaceptable, and now that a high profile platform like BTR has talked about it, you can't hide. The community is going to rip itself in half between people that want these changes, and the people that don't understand the game. You need to get ahead of this, or else. As IWillDominate once said, "Whether you win or lose, Hashinshin is the deciding factor" this rapidly expanding rift is going to either inspire you to fix this game, or this divide will be the final nail in leagues coffin.

3 Comments

Punchtown Hero2 votes

First comment! On a more serious note, I agree that towers should be hardier and take more of a beating. I think too that it would be good to have a more farmable jungle so champs with quick clear times aren't sitting in a bush on the side of a lane for 15-20 seconds because they have nothing better to do. Max health damage imo is fine in itself, but it shouldn't be spamable (BOTRK, Vayne's W passive, etc...). A slower early game for tanks would be nice as well because it would require playing more carefully until you can out-scale your bruiser/fighter counterparts(it sucks playing early game champs when a lot of the current tanks can do just as much damage in the early game all while consistently being more durable throughout the game).

On a side note, I wish some of the odd scaling were to make a comeback. I have a lot of fun playing and theorizing strange off meta builds but most of the scaling now is strictly AD or AP on champion skills. I can understand trying to remove because adds another dimension to balancing, but it did take a lot of fun out of the game for me personally.

Vapor Wave Vibes2 votes

I really agree with number 7 since If I'm playing talon top champs like poppy can just tank 100 of my w without me being able to all in cause them just slap and out damage me, or I could just be on a weak champ.

Azeranth1 votes

Assassin and bruiser aren't the same. As Renekton, I can shit on talon for the first half of one, because assassins are weak early. If they weren't, everyone would plat Kat, Talon, and Zed support again

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