Why is the invasion mode so hard?

NuggeTech·9/8/2017, 12:40:49 PM·12 votes·3,060 views

I have played two matches on the normal mode. Lost both of them. Seriously, why is it so hard? I remember there was a game mode where Teemo was the end boss. That is how the difficulty should be balanced. The hard difficulty was brutal and the normal one was easygoing.

Not only that, the game does a poor job of describing how to play the mode. It just tells us kill the monsters. Which is obviously obvious. It does not tell us that the health packs can heal our entire team or the mana regen can regen our entire team. Not only that, the part where we have to stay in the barrier, first timers have zero idea that they have to stay inside the barrier. I died twice in that part, because I had no idea that I will lose health.

The enemy team has way too short CDs. KogMaw keeps machine gunning us while Chogath and RekSai keep us tossing in the air. The rift herald is the very epitome of a BS boss but I'll let is slide because he is the boss. And don't get me started on Velkoz. The champ that is easy for me to face against in a normal LoL game spams orbs with a hit box the size of a god d**n whale.

And for us the players , barring Lux, MissFortune and Syndra, the champs don't feel that they have any impact at all. Surprisingly Lux is the best support here even though we have Soraka and Lulu. Syndra is just better than Ahri. And MF as usual destroys Jinx and Ezreal. Haven't played as or with a Janna yet so can't say.

Now coming to the missions, why TF do I have to team up with 5 pre-mades. Getting a Duo is hard enough, why do I need 5 to actually reap the awards? I know there are free but, C'MON MAN!. Someone did the math reddit and it turns out that majority of them require 5-man pre-mades (not sure about this).

I really wish Riot does something about this. It is a really, really good mode. I probably enjoy it more than Urf because I like PvE than PvP. But this is ridiculous. Adding the dificulty lower elo players are basicully f**ked. I am in bronze because my mechanics are not good. How am I supposed to win even if I get a 5-man premade man?

Riot knew that people are gonna spend money this event because popular champs like Ahri, MF, Syndra are getting really good skins. Now they want to gouge our wallets more. Oh and BTW they are charging 175 RP more if you want to buy the skin bundle for a certain champ.

32 Comments

Packun Flower9/8/2017, 12:45:55 PM5 votes

They really fucked it up. It wasn't tested properly and the whole mode is botched due to them overtuning the AI's and enforcing penalties on the players for no reason what so ever.

It's a cool idea, it really is and i really want t enjoy the event and the mode, but I'm really angry for once that they managed to fuck this up. The whole thing has been a complete and utter disaster and unless they hotfix it soon it will go down as Riot's worst event and game mode to date.

Weedlayer9/8/2017, 1:22:25 PM4 votes

Reminds me a lot of PUG raiding in WoW. The difference is there's no group finder, so you can't:

1: Kick the bads who keep getting pegged by skillshots and wiping the group.

2: Enforce some kind of team comp. If you don't have a Jinx and a Soraka, it's going to be a hassle to do it with randoms.

Definitely too much of a hassle to do with random players. MAYBE I'll do it with 4 friends, but no way in solo queue.

Masked Lunatic9/8/2017, 12:57:24 PM3 votes

The thing that mostly annoys me is that while everything is over tuned, the hit-boxes are atrocious: vel koz q / ult beam are the main offenders / they don't visually match the actual width of projectiles properly.

Sirenapples9/8/2017, 3:15:16 PM2 votes

It just really needs to start you off with more gold and give more gold after each wave / per second.

rtbf2256182419/8/2017, 4:32:02 PM2 votes

Look no offense but some of the things you said are simply not true. Ezreal, Syndra and Soraka all are pretty strong in this mode.

I agree with you that the mode is way too hard but it is winnable. The stupid requirements for shitty team comps and full premades is quite ridiculous though.

WyvernEgg9/8/2017, 3:17:36 PM1 votes

git gud scrub

RxMediEvil9/9/2017, 8:12:01 PM1 votes

The problem with this game mode is the fact that it is based on luck , the waves are probably random or are selected from a bunch of pre-saved patterns ... What is the problem with this you may ask, well let's say you get lucky the first time you play the mode as I did : we go in game we get all the Npcs to spawn kinda equally {we get each of them} and we beat them , no big deal... or you can get unlucky witch happened to me last game : In the part where the fighting zone moves all the enemies were skarners and vel'koz[s?] sooo we got full CC-ed while all the 20 vel'koz[s?] would shoot us from across the map. This mode is like 20% based on skill and 80% on luck .... and as we all know .... you don't get lucky pretty often [sry for borken english hope you understand]

Kloqdq9/8/2017, 7:09:48 PM1 votes

The best team comp I've found is honestly

Jinx MissFortune Poppy then you can go for any mage or support.

You just simply NEED jinx and mf to deal with waves and help shred the Big One. Ezreal is utter trash for this mode. Poppy is also a must simply because you need someone to body block and revive. Lulu and Janna seem better than Raka since Raka just runs dry way to quickly. Lux, Ahri and Syndra all work to their own varying degrees of success. Any other team is utter trash and it's sadly that simple.

meowwow79/8/2017, 2:13:48 PM1 votes

tbh if you are using MissFortune just build item 3151 and cdr and spam your e