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The game quality this season has been abysmal.

Fate Decides·8/1/2019, 7:36:19 PM·48 votes·13,112 views

Every single game is stomp or be stomped, theres no skill balance, one team is meant to win the other team is meant to lose.

I've never had a game where i've been winning lasting longer than 15-20 minutes not because we won but because the other team just instant surrenders as soon as it hits the time threshold, once again there is no balance between skill levels, no one is interested in making a comeback they'd rather just ff go next.

The matchmaking this season has been really really unfair and i know you're doing it to make queue times shorter but give us the option, i would wait 10 minutes for a game if i could be guaranteed my role, I should be able to play my favorite lane and my favourite champion not be autofilled into a role i'm uncomfortable with.

The Champion balancing has been really questionable i'm obviously no expert on this but what on earth is this pyke buff? remove his damage and gut him for a month then double his gold income in an attempt to fix him?

Patch 9.14? what the hell was that, i couldnt even play the game and we're STILL experiencing bugs some of my friends can't even load into games nowadays.

This is in no way to rant or cause a big stir but honestly i've really not enjoyed this season at all, bring back being able to solo carry, bigger comebacks, less stomp or be stomped.

Thanks :)

33 Comments

Daddy Ants8/1/2019, 9:30:17 PM13 votes

Season 9 is a royal cock up from Riot.

gg go s10.

The thigh guy8/1/2019, 8:27:44 PM12 votes

I mean when advantage stretch so far games are entirely one sided stomps. The best examples is first blood.

It’s only 400 gold right? Nope. 400 gold + 2 minion waves + xp + 2 turret plates.

That’s 1200 gold. Almost an entire bf sword. For a single kill.

It’s stupid.

Fear the Kayn8/2/2019, 12:46:26 AM9 votes

I'm hoping the Chinese overlords are extremely hard on Riot after this disaster of a year and the very likely financial fallout because of it. Multiple firings would be much appreciated. The art team is still doing great, but the balance team needs some management adjustments no doubt.

Urgasm8/2/2019, 6:02:14 AM8 votes

The problem is everyone just does too much damage, its almost garunteed you die to any gank now without flash or having a champion that has in built survivability.
If you've been watching streamers play throught this season, there's a mssive increase in "wow what killed me" "wait that killed me?" "how did they do that much?". Also balancing on some champions is definately incorrect, especially to do with free sustain or free rescource champions playing versus mana dependant champions. Think kennen that can do multiple full rotations without having to base and urgot with the very high q cost with very low q damage can only do 2 rotations, and thats while not being able to poke with q due to literally using up all mana in around 4 qs. Also stuff like assassins and other champions having multiple dashes and maassive movement speed increases and then you get champions like urgot that have very low base movespeed, a movespeed anti-steroid on w, and his dash specifically cannot cross terrain while just about every other champion dash is able to despite other champions having higher movespeed etc anyway.

FSRER8/2/2019, 4:34:10 PM4 votes

The game is no longer about playing strategically. They 100% replaced the strategy involved in Rift with damage. If you look back at the past seasons, you will see that every single patch has been about giving more damage, not taking back. The infamous tank meta. They tried to give tanks more damage. We got that abomination of a season. Instead of rolling back the changes they dumped more damage into champions that already countered tanks, gave the reworks back then more anti-tank stats and they said "everything is fine". We told them they fucked up. They heard us after half a season and then we had worlds which they ruined by giving more damage/cdr. And to "balance" that situation they gave everything (almost) more damage. Patch after Patch, more damage after more damage, we got where we are now. Some want to believe that Season 10 will fix things.. It will not, because as long as Riot games does not do a rewind and roll it back to season 5 then this game will be going downhill no matter what.

Baby Ghoul8/2/2019, 6:36:24 AM3 votes

I stopped taking this game seriously after Pyke was released last year. We keep telling Riot we don't like him at all and he's so unfair to play against with the amount of safety he's given.

So many people are banning him, but now they buffed him, which is something not even the most stubborn Pyke mains were asking for. That's how absurd that buff is.

On top of that they didn't learn from their experience with sending overloaded kits bot and released Yuumi, making bot lane even more of a painful experience. As if the stakes weren't high enough.

I don't think just the balance team is the only issue either. The client is still absolute garbage in 2019. Electrocute is not working properly right now, plants are bugged, and hook hitboxes are huge.

And I disagree about the art team being the only part of Riot holding it down.

Have you seen Caitlyn's Arcade Prestige skin? Is she suddenly Elastigirl? How about Project Jinx's waist? Her head is bigger than her torso. Whoever designed those skins must be taking notes from One Piece or something.

I've been playing this game for 6 years now and this is the first time I'm starting to see way more wrong than right. There's been such a sharp decline in quality in a little over a year. I can't even get into matchmaking and the amount of trolls in this game. I think we can all agree that it isn't good.

Scarzi8/3/2019, 12:55:28 AM1 votes

This game is dead. Plan and simple. Im a hard stuck high plat/low diamond elo. The quality of games goes like this: 60% someone is inting/afk, 30% are blowouts, 10% are decent games. The discipline system is a joke, it punishes people for being toxic(i still don't understand why people are punished for this, hitting mute solves the problem.) more then it does actual afkers/inters. Every champion that comes out now has 3 of 4 tools: damage, mobility, stealth, and shields. All the older champions are left in the stone age. There use to be a system to champion design but its been thrown out of the window for almost 2 years now. They are focusing on teamfight more then the actual game. Teamfight will never last the life of leagues, not even close. Its a niche that will die off within 2 years. Why? Its boring with a lot of RNG.

DJisKxng8/3/2019, 2:02:08 AM1 votes

First blood rly only is 400 gold depending where it happens, if its past 5 minutes its more punishing but prior to it doesnt mean you fr

CrazyMonkeyCZ8/1/2019, 7:39:00 PM1 votes

Maybe play some serious mode and not normals?

TyronedTy8/3/2019, 5:16:28 AM1 votes

Yeah, I was unable to climb as easy this season as in others when leveling my smurfs. I don't much time to play anymore so maybe that's why, I researched for the fastest ways to climb ranked and some of the suggest methods, albeit unconventional, worked for me. I'm looking forward to Season 10, they always do major changes during the preseason and I'm curious what will they end up being.

Shiroe Okazaki8/2/2019, 4:23:39 AM1 votes

i don't like knowing one mistake means i die all the time. some champions are nearly unviable in general or 110% outclassed by others who do the same but more

LordGeovanni8/2/2019, 6:26:16 AM1 votes

im tired of talking about this when boards are ready to protest make a date and set it on the boards

Froot8/2/2019, 3:04:19 PM1 votes

I actually had a game yesterday where we were getting stomped hard and somehow won because the enemy weren't closing the game. It was one of the best games I've had because, in that game, true skill and communication mattered.

In other games, your team could be so much more co-ordinated than the enemy but you'd still lose because they snowballed harder. This game has become a joke.

itaiIKi8/2/2019, 7:50:23 PM1 votes

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Every single game is stomp or be stomped, theres no skill balance, one team is meant to win the other team is meant to lose.

I've never had a game where i've been winning lasting longer than 15-20 minutes not because we won but because the other team just instant surrenders as soon as it hits the time threshold, once again there is no balance between skill levels, no one is interested in making a comeback they'd rather just ff go next.

The matchmaking this season has been really really unfair and i know you're doing it to make queue times shorter but give us the option, i would wait 10 minutes for a game if i could be guaranteed my role, I should be able to play my favorite lane and my favourite champion not be autofilled into a role i'm uncomfortable with.

The Champion balancing has been really questionable i'm obviously no expert on this but what on earth is this pyke buff? remove his damage and gut him for a month then double his gold income in an attempt to fix him?

Patch 9.14? what the hell was that, i couldnt even play the game and we're STILL experiencing bugs some of my friends can't even load into games nowadays.

This is in no way to rant or cause a big stir but honestly i've really not enjoyed this season at all, bring back being able to solo carry, bigger comebacks, less stomp or be stomped.

Thanks :)

While I agree some games are forced wins or lose. I do get a balanced game every few matches where both teams are equal of skill level and try their hardest.

gabetheguy8/2/2019, 8:58:32 PM1 votes

no.