5.22 Has Completely Ruined League of Legends for Me

Fudanshii·11/13/2015, 8:03:46 AM·7 votes·714 views

I am extremely disappointed in Riot. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs] This patch has completely destroyed mages, AP Supports, AP junglers and Hybrid builders such as Ezreal , Evelynn , and people who use the items item 3146 , item 3078 , or item 3124 .

I was mad when the AP junglers item changed to Runeglaive, which lowered the AP from 80 to 50, and gave it a strange spell blade passive, which lowered the strength of AP junglers. Then, they nerfed that and made it useless in lane, which made me upset because I enjoy seeing mages gaining new varieties of builds and strategies since they all seem to build the same. Now you nerf it AGAIN to 40 AP? Then you remove the only thing that allowed certain AP junglers to keep a good sustain while clearing, Ranger's Trailblazer. Telling me that this item is not used or is clutter, is complete crap to be honest because I use it almost every time I jungle because it is useful to my junglers, who all tend to be AP. Its as if you have no regard for anyone who runs on AP. Nidalee , Fiddlesticks , Elise , Ekko , Diana , etc, need good sustain while jungling and now they won't have that, and they certainly won't have the power to back up that lack of sustain. You also removed something that was useful to heavy mana users; mana potions and summoner 13 . Saying that they are useless, or are cluttered, is crap because I buy them EVERY GAME I go anyone who runs on AP, unless its someone like Veigar who has a passive that regens mana, or Annie who gets her AP back through killing minions with her Q. The mana changes you made to the champions won't help much. 80 extra mana is about one extra ability that can be used, and often, spells that are needed the most cost over that amount. Mana regen is okay, but its slow and will make early games hell, especially for AP supports who don't get much gold to build Mana items quickly. I think I'll be having to automatically buying a tear on my first back now to make up for the lack of mana potions and ability to sustain in lane with my ADC.

This entire patch focused solely on ADCs, which I do play often, and I feel like this will be a lot to adjust to. It is somewhat even confusing me as to what I should build anymore, and the prices are just crazy, even with the awkward change in the gold system. Not really understanding what you were trying to do, Riot, but whatever. I don't see why you changed the entire system of warding, as well. Speaking of clutter and uselessness, these new sight stones make no sense (item 2303 , item 2302 , item 2301 ), and I'm pissed to say the least that you dropped my Ranger's Trailblazer to give me a crappy warding blade. Literally this entire patch was meant to crap on Mages and AP Junglers, and to glorify and break the builds and workings of ADCs. You have also destroyed the tank meta, ( DrMundo Braum Zac TahmKench Sion Singed Nautilus Leona , etc ) which is crucial to a good team, by introducing broken items such as item 3034 . I don't really understand why you feel the need to make such drastic changes to champions and items time after time, but its starting to get annoying.

You made juggernauts, then the next revamp you make any tank meta inapplicable by bringing in an item that shreds tanks. It doesn't make sense why you go from one extreme to the next, and it really makes me not want to play because I feel I wont enjoy it as much as I used to.

These ADC changes scare me, too. You shot up the base damage of one of the most broken ADCs in the game, Vayne , and you also made some insanely broken passives and abilities to champions like Graves , KogMaw , and Corki . 5 attacks per second? Having insane range that works as a Rumble Ult on an ability? Giving an ADC a free item 3085 as a passive? Riot, please think these things through before implementing them into the game.

I don't really like the layout of the new Masteries system either, but I won't complain about that. Not really that big of a deal... I find it pretty confusing, and I honestly didn't mind having a large number of mastery pages, but that's my own personal opinion.

I really hope you guys listen to our output and reconsider some of these changes. I want to enjoy the game, not have to think for a solid hour per champion I main of how I need to rearrange and reorganize my build paths and play style.

4 Comments

MrApproved11/13/2015, 7:25:49 PM2 votes

Personally for me, snowballing is at an all time high. Who ever gets an early kill = win... I understand the patch is new and many ppl are trying to understand what is good, bad, stupid etc but every game I have played 10+. who ever gets an early kill just snowballs and wins.

Baculus11/13/2015, 8:08:51 AM1 votes

I was all like "Yeaaaaah!" until you had to bring in Clarity.

There's no excuse for Clarity.

Chesteroma11/29/2015, 11:24:35 AM1 votes

Not going to lie man, this patch ruined ADC's all around. I main Jinx and well, she fell off, pretty damn badly, her passive is still broken, but that's only if you're fed - Other than that, they're falling down.