Can this game not update as much

klin537··2 votes·760 views

I think it's healthy for a game to not update as much. Right now, since the meta changes slightly with every patch, you don't really get time to learn/appreciate what's there before everything turns around. I've seen pros talk about this, but as a new player haven't really been affected by it until now.

What happened was, I used to rush stormrazor first with rengar. Maybe not smart but it was really fun. Then they changed stormrazor to where it doesn't even make sense to get with rengar, at least not as a first item. Now they made stormrazor slightly better, and I have no idea if and when I should get it.

Another thing was with camile. I played camile jungle once in drafts and loved it. Her e makes ganks so fun. I immediately thought I'd be a camile main, and then suddenly they nerfed her clear. They might as well have removed camile from the game for me. I don't play top and never will. This one tore me up even more than the stormrazor change.

The problem is that this game changes so fast and often that you don't even get to fully appreciate each patch before there's another one. You can't learn a new meta (some of us have lives) and new champions for each patch.

My suggestion, for all it's worth, is to make around 2-4 patches per season. This will allow for the meta to more fully develop, and give riot more time to really analyze how the patch affects the game, thus letting them make better follow up patches, and allow players to more fully latch on to what works, what they like, etc before it is all changed.

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OneMustFall1 votes

I'm afraid that's just not possible. The balance team would have nothing to do but sit around and eat donuts all day.

atomicwit1 votes

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I'm afraid that's just not possible. The balance team would have nothing to do but sit around and eat donuts all day.

if that were truly the case, it would mean that they have too many people working on balance

pretty sure that's not true

early season tends to be more turbulent than past mid season though

klin5372 votes

They can analyze games, and spend more time finding out whats really going on. Or they could get paid to play the game, as I hope they do, because they can't balance a game that they don't play full-time.

stanjer1231 votes

Unfortunately, this is exactly why they do it. They don't want to create a healthy, balanced game environment, they want to create an "exciting" "fresh" and "big play" environment. They want to keep changing things so you can't tell that the game is never healthy, and never balanced.

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