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League is basically unplayable in its current form.

DarwinTheory·2/1/2020, 11:24:45 AM·124 votes·45,585 views

Busted matchmaking

Busted champions

Ignorant game developers who won't listen to player feedback

Silly decisions (Ignore Sett and Ekko but nerf that Sona for stomping games right?......)

Speaking of which supports are no longer supports. They're superceded by all manner of burst champs (say hi Pyke)

Top is effectively redundant

Unless they're brain-dead and overpush their advantage the bot lane that gets a lead typically snowballs and wins.

Even beating your counter and getting FB can mean a lane loss. You have to strategically NOT KILL the champion that counters you lest they return with TP and equipment and bully you out of the games relevance.

Jungler MMR disparity is a HUGE issue. Got a high MP and a high MMR enemy jungler? Get camped, get 0 help, you become redundant and unable to do anything but watch helplessly as your team loses.

No single person can carry anymore:

You can't augment a losing game by splitting because the minion movement speed buff and canon spawns coupled with low champion respawn timers.

You can't build tank and soak damage for your noob team mates to scale. That used to be a thing!! You COULD influence the games path by getting the enemy to focus you and waste time and abilities. That's gone now!!!!!!

Respawn timers are fucked. There's no cost to a fed carry dying. Even if you kill the fed enemy carry like zed or Ekko or akali or their fed ADC before 40 mins they respawn in less than 30 seconds and continue their rampage on your team

Ult cooldowns have been reduced to nothing. Zed as an example can spam his and chunk any force any non healing orientated champ to play passive whilst he roams (typically bot) and don't get me started on Ekkos ult.....

Yes, this game in its current state it unplayable. It's toxic design actually CREATES toxicity within the community. It's not the players fault they feel frustrated and helpless. It's these issues that make players int/rage/feed/afk and cause everyone mental anguish and stress.

And no one at RIOT cares.

126 Comments

Jbels2/1/2020, 1:42:27 PM35 votes

I was actually having a conversation with a college friend the other day about how I miss when League was slower paced, and champions couldn't be bursted down in 0.4 seconds, no matter how much damage the person doing the bursting did, unless they were super fed.

They looked at me and were like "Are you kidding? League sucked when it was that slow"

I think people have forgotten that League was once a game of STRATEGIC gameplay and counters. Now, the game features neither. It's burst or be bursted. Get ahead or stay behind. The game has become too binary. The variety from the old days is gone, and every champion feels pretty much the same as far as damage goes.

Supports do enough damage by themselves now that the word "support" in league of legends has become as obsolete as the concept of "the late game".

Assassins do so much damage that they only really need levels to actually do something, the items are just the cherry on top. Shoutout to Qiyana for having the most broken and overloaded kit an assassin has ever had. High mobility, 2 hard CCs, and stealth? First of all, 2 hard CCs on an assassin? Fuck right off. At least Ekko has to work for his, and doesn't get to go invisible before you can react after his CC wears off.

Tanks conversely take too much damage for what they are supposed to be doing. They build defensive items in order to stay alive for the same amount of time throughout the game, not to survive longer. If they didn't build all tank, they would die instantly as opposed to dying at the same speed they would die at level 1.

Many mages have just become immobile burst assassins. They don't suffer from mana problems anymore, which was supposed to be the balancing factor for mages. Since most if not all of a mage's item choices now have mana attached to them, running dry at the wrong time is no longer an issue. Remember when if a mage wanted to be able to not run out of mana, they had to build an Athene's?

Marksmen....sigh. What can you even say about them? Most of them don't even need to build that much attack speed anymore since they just end up two-shotting everything that isn't building armor, while still melting anything that is building armor relatively quickly. Remember when a tank could actually threaten damage dealers just by walking at them? Now they eat a CC and get bursted down by everyone for their troubles.

tl;dr The game needs to be slowed down. Damage needs to be lowered across the board. Hard CC needs to stop being ascribed to champions that don't deserve it. Hard CC should be a TANK mechanic, not an everyone mechanic. Supports need to be supports again, not secondary pockets of damage. Tanks need to actually tank things again

PhearBunny2/1/2020, 12:07:36 PM28 votes

buy WC3 Reforfged, Your love for League will be rejuvinated instantly.

FSRER2/1/2020, 1:47:37 PM14 votes

You sir are wrong! Do you even know how much fun Ekko, Diana, Sett and Senna mains are having? They are having the time of their lives

Jokes aside, I agree with everything you mentioned above and just like someone else mentioned, the game must be slowed down for it to become anywhere close to enjoyable

Nea1042/1/2020, 1:17:49 PM14 votes

A friend of mine, D3 in S9, is now playing in P2, and saying "I just wait until this rigged matchmaking allows me to win (70% wr smurf on the other side, and 35% wr jungler as a teammate). Meanwhile, I play because of boredom and addiction".

I think this explains why this game still goes on, also because it still has the numbers (even if smaller and decreasing), and there are no actual alternatives.

Bisaknosp2/1/2020, 2:40:52 PM12 votes

tbh i wish more people would stop giving riot money and supporting them in any way so they actually HAVE to do something and not just drool on their keyboards

Garson2112/1/2020, 1:51:14 PM10 votes

There is so many things that give DMG. Look at runes,DMG DMG DMG Why grasp doing dmg? Why aftershock doing dmg? 80% items add so much AD CDR and AP that is just insane,compare to MR and ARMOR option is just busted.

Garson2112/1/2020, 1:40:59 PM10 votes

Tbh I've never felt so hopeless and frustrated like in current season.I played top and i rly want still play it but atm i have 41% winratio and im just tired of fliping coins. Past season I could easily climb to Diamond but now im stuck,propably coz i dont want play mage or something untra agressive...

Amount of toxic in that game now is higher than ever,im not even suprised when i see this "STOMP DMG META" people just can't stand it anymore and start game on tilt and leaving inting and griefing.

Sad but what can i do.... Ye ye I must adapt... I can adapt as well to another MOBA

AB Thistle2/1/2020, 2:33:18 PM10 votes

While I do agree with you that the game is not in the best state currently, tbh I have no problems with the developers not listening to players - seriously. A lot of the player "advice" given out is akin to the stuff churned out by the Simpsons' Comic Book Guy. A great deal of the advice is conflicting, badly reasoned and often questionable.

But I do seriously wish that the devs played their game more. And I wish that they played all the roles the same amount of time (not just their favorite pet champions) - just so they could realize how poorly balanced certain aspects of the game are.

steven45474662/1/2020, 7:55:33 PM9 votes

Remember when Garen was a tank and not a triforce rush q r assassin? I played only garen for the first couple seasons I played back in season 5 and you could actually go full tank and do something like peeling. Now if I go tank garen I get bursted (as a tank) and executed by someone who has a RESETTING EXECUTE SERIOUSLY WHY ARE RESETTING EXECUTES A THING? Anyways I stopped playing top a while ago.

Waaaarrrrgggghhh2/1/2020, 11:03:57 PM8 votes

vast majority of games are 15-25 minutes long. Complete stomps. Rarely are games 35 mins +

Riot wants to make games shorter because these new kids playing the game dont have the attention span to play a game for that long. Play dota 2, games are regularly 45-60 minutes long.

T2K Baka2/1/2020, 3:58:37 PM7 votes

You forgot shit client also

Malix Farwin2/1/2020, 1:59:56 PM7 votes

Prolly for the first time in a very long time i think matchmaking is a bigger problem than busted champions. Granted matchmaking has been a problem for over a year at least but now it has gotten so bad its trumping champions.

iRend Spears2/1/2020, 8:11:31 PM7 votes

League now is about : Make busted champions give them cool skins so people like winning with them and buy their skins . That's all to it , no one play their favorite champions anymore if they want to win , it's all about play 3 champs of the meta and that made the game so boring. It's literally starting to be the same team fights every game

Ahri Body Pillow2/2/2020, 3:52:13 AM6 votes

I have historically defended Riot Games and League of Legends, but League is in a bad way right now.

These games are fucking AWFUL. Balance is terribad, matchmaking even more so, and the client somehow has them all beat.

Im coming closer and closer to uninstalling this game.

The thigh guy2/1/2020, 9:06:46 PM6 votes

Tbh. All the toxic crap and riots unwillingness to listen to is old players about the current game state has made me jump ship.

I play maybe 5 games a patch. Just to see if anything has changed. None of it ever has. It’s always the same garbage of “arms race to 100-0 everything with no real counterplay”

I’ve given up. I’ve started playing ff14. Tbh. It’s just a strictly better game. Developers that actually listen to their community. Best example is the healers meta. Astro was dog shit for about a month. Then a patch came and it’s now on par or sometimes better than the other healers.

What would riot do in that situation? “Oh we need to gather more data.” “We don’t have enough data”

Players ~ “their winrate is 38% what the fuck?” Riot ~ “yeah we just don’t have enough data. Millions of games a day just doesn’t give us enough data.”

FrancisMuni2/2/2020, 2:14:27 AM6 votes

All of this is very true. It's really sad that the biggest game of the decade (along with Minecraft) has turn into a Chinese pc cafe game. LoL nowadays is exactly as bad as mobile MOBAs like Mobile Legends.

RainXBlade2/2/2020, 6:41:20 AM5 votes

Unless Riot actually starts to rethink about their design philosophy for the game and start making good balancing decisions (Ex. Nerfing damage across the board and gutting ANYTHING that has a remotely overloaded kit), this game is going to stay unplayable for most normal players.

I started playing League less because of this. I don't even know if Riot wants to keep this game as a strategic MOBA with meta diversity, or a fighting game to see which character has a more overloaded and stupid kit.

RenSnow2/2/2020, 6:22:13 AM5 votes

Worse part for me is I can't let out my frustration and flame these coin flip r%%%%%s. Got bored and made a new account after not playing for years and after the disgusting mess that is pre30 normals i thought itd be better once i started ranking. LOL nope this game is completely toxic, WAAAY to teamreliant to get stuck with braindead mash every single game strain yourself to focus and tell others what to do and barely push these dogshit morons to victory only to lose 5+ games in a row because of this dogshit matchmaking that pits you against players an entire division up and forcing the swine bronzies on your team. There is nothing fun about this game in its current iteration and its not worth my effort or time, hope riot keeps this up and runs this whole game into the ground because nothing would bring me more joy than to see riot fail and go belly up.

VelvetCrotch2/2/2020, 4:29:40 PM5 votes

True. But please don’t forget champs like Riven, Vlad and especially that r%%%%%ed fish Fizz who are toxic and broken for several years.

Just recently played vs a Fizz and god damn... where should I start.. his incredible forgiving E which is AOE and can be used offensively and defensively, being untargetable or his ult which he can use like 24/7 similar to ekko and if he lands it... well then you are most certainly dead... at least it feels like it... pure toxicity

lamakisser2/1/2020, 3:37:58 PM4 votes

they couldnt care less about the quality but they going for volume in some stupid peeing contest with blizzard

like this company will ever hold a candle to blizzard

Vlada Cut2/1/2020, 4:00:33 PM4 votes

And yet we still play it, whether we like it or not.

It's quite ironic how we are stuck in this endless loop, is it not?

AidanWR2/2/2020, 12:08:30 AM3 votes

Not to mention that they nerfed ADCs, which is a role that's been struggling due to inefficient items, so if it turns into a farm lane, which it almost never does because of Pyke, Lux, Zyra, Swain, Vel, Xerath, Morgana, etc. supports, both ADCs will be so far behind that the Irelias, Setts, Garens, Zeds, and any other champion with any small amount of damage will one-shot them while taking no damage. This game is in such a bad state that a 0/10 Yasuo can get a 3v5 pentakill against a 14/1 Jhin and win the game for the team. Meanwhile, Riot hates that ADCs are stacking Cloaks because "pickaxe is better item". The reason that people are stacking cloaks is because Zeal is a terrible item as it's overcosted and the build path is stupid. Not because they want to take it over pickaxe, which builds into literally ONE item for ADCs, unless you're playing Ezreal or Kai'Sa, or need a Scimitar, but that's a late game item. You don't see people stacking fucking pickaxes.

Hentai 1 99LPog2/6/2020, 10:41:42 PM3 votes

Hot pile of garbage that is decaying internally for years now and has a nice exterior (skins/splash-arts).

Salty Mc Feed2/7/2020, 12:50:32 PM2 votes

My game is crashing at 8-10 min 80% of the time and Riot still hasn't fixed it after like 3 months so RIot can actually just go fuck itself, but please stop crying about you failing because you need ignite top and still lose lane with it. Yes if you have shitty wave management and don't think about good all ins + resets you will lose lane BECAUSE you got first blood with ignite. That has nothing to do with balance though, is just you not thinking about your own plays. It's infinitely more annoying if you TP to lane and your game just crashes because it's completely broken this season so you are back in base with tp on cd and then you fall like 1-2 level and like 20-30 cs behind.