New season opinions?
Before the new patch came out I was fairly excited to see the changes take place. However, after playing about 20 games in this new patch I think that it's garbage. For starters as many of you have probably noticed AD carries have pretty much taken over. The buffs to graves alone are ridiculous. I found myself mid against graves and even counter jungling graves, which by the way I don't care how strong graves is he is NOT a viable jungler. He has very little presence in team fights, has no real dive ability, and has no passive sustain for jung or team fights. Oh, and don't even get me started on cait. A few ranked matches ago I ended up laning against cait as vayne, which we all know isn't a very fun laning phase anyway, but I kid you not I was taking autos from cait while behind by turret trying to cs and my turret was not attacking her, that's how freaking stupid her range is. Factor in the new items available pretty early on the new buffs are pretty horrifying. The issue is that only the ones that they buffed are that strong. Pretty much every other adc is inferior at this point. Then there's yasuo......The one mastery on the offensive tree is pretty much made for him. It makes him have a stupid amount of sustain in laning phase and add in the new crit items and changes to pre existing ones, and yasuo is pretty much unstoppable. All the while the power of bruisers is basically fading in comparison to everything else. You are likely to face fiora top with this new patch and the buffs to her make her stomp just about anyone except maybe for trynd who also got buffed, and benefits from the new crit% heal mastery. For the first time ever I found myself playing jax and having to be careful going all in on the enemy adc. If that's not a sign that they went way too overboard with this I don't know what is.
However, my biggest issue with pre-season thus far is the entire gameplay itself. Every single game your team either stomps or gets stomped. Their is no in-between. It is now harder than ever to come back from being behind. The newly buffed champs snowball so incredibly hard that even getting a few kills behind will put you behind the entire game. Out of the 10 or so ranked games I've played so far not a single one has lasted more than 35 minutes. ITheir hasn't been a single pvp game I've played that was even remotely close, and with towers being as weak as they are now you just get tower dived all freakin game long no problem. I don't know about you, but I don't like getting stomped, but I also don't like stomping my lane either. It's not fun at all for me, it's boring. I am no longer playing league until at least a couple patches after the new season starts because their is literally no scenario in ranked where I have fun. They basically nerfed all ap and ad assassins (ie fizz and zed), along with late mid/late game bruisers, at least in comparison with the rest of the changes.
Lastly, their is the LAG. I have a brand new computer with plenty of RAM and a nice graphics card, and my internet is super fast, yet the lag I'm experiencing is so god awful that I literally cannot play league because I can't even move after the first few minutes. I just tried playing a custom bot game to prove this and I had to quit because of the lag. In pvp it wouldn't be fair to play right now cause I'd screw my team over. So not only do I not want to play league cause of the new patch but I literally can't play because of the new lag. Something tells me I'm not alone as I step away from league until RIOT sorts this shit out. Perhaps it was a mistake allowing Blizzard games to come even close to LoL.